Can No Export InDesign Snippets

I am using InDesign CS6 8.0.2 (updated today, 4/28/2014) on Mac OSX 10.9.2, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
I am attempting to export snippets to my desktop via File-Export-Format InDesign Snippet.
Everything appears to operate correctly, but I can not find the idms file on my desktop.
Is there a setting I need to change?
Thanks for any time and help offered.

@TheOaksMan – there are two options to export IDMS files (snippet file format) out of InDesign.
Select one or some objects on the page and:
1. Export to IDMS with the menu command File / Export… / InDesign-Snippet
or:
2. dragging the selected objects out of the page to the file system (Finder)
No need to drag it to the Desktop folder, every folder you have write permission will fit.
Does option 2 work for you?
Uwe

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