Downloading to subfolder
I want to download my incoming Google e-mails file attachments to a specific folder on my computer (within my Data structure - for ease in back ups).
In Firefox, I went to Tools>Options>named the specific file folder to save the downloaded attachments. The specific file folder is already there.
It keeps going to the default subfolder, not to the specified folder I set up.
Please advise...
Thanks...
Hi,
Please see [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Preferences%20are%20not%20saved this].
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Welcome to Apple discussions.
I have never seen that particular error (not helpful to you).
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I tried the workaround. Changed the setting in Organizer - Bearbeiten - Voreinstellungen - Kamera oder Kartenleser (this is on my German menu. It translates to somewhat like Organizer - Edit - Options - Camera). I got, no matter how I changed these settings to, always the same wrong result yyyy dd mm.
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But anyway thanks for this hint. I just was not clear where to change the date format.
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A better way to move downloads to appropriate folder?
I'm setting up a new iMac with 10.6 for a friend who came over from Windows. One tidbit she would like to be more efficient at is handling downloaded attachments from Yahoo Mail, specifically PDFs.
In Yahoo Mail using IE if say a PDF attachment is clicked on a dialogue box pops up asking if you want to Save of or Open. In Safari (or Firefox) when the Yahoo attachment is clicked on it automatically goes in the Downloads folder. Unfortunately not possible to right-click on the attachment and "Download Linked File As...".
Everyday for her work she downloads several PDF files that are emailed to her Yahoo Mail periodically throughout the day from different employees, and she the saves those to the respective folder. In her Documents she has a subfolder called "PDF Documents" and inside that folder are folders for each employee - which there's about 100.
In IE she would click the attachment and then save it to the correct folder from the Save dialogue box. Now on the iMac the attachment goes into the Downloads folder, she opens the Downloads folder, then a second Finder window, navigates to the needed subfolder in the "PDF Documents" folder, and drags the downloaded PDF in there, then closes out all windows.
Is this how you would do it in 10.6? Do you have any tips on making that process more streamlined?
Thanks!,
WesleyYahoo does not allow anything but to download attachments (I asked Yahoo that very question not that long ago); however, there is a something you can do in both Firefox and Safari: go to Preferences, click on General, and choose where the downloaded file should go. I prefer mine on the desktop because they're easy to find and visible; once downloaded, I look through the files and decide where to put them. Your friend could simply do that or set up a folder on the desktop and direct the downloads to that folder.
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Organising/Saving downloads to folders
Hi there,
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it cumbersome organising and saving downloads to specific saved folders, particularly subfolders, in Mac? It seems I can't do it in less than 2 or 3 steps, as one has to save to the Downloads folder or a major folder first before being able to save to another subfolder. Even if I've created a folder specifically for an item, if I download something from the internet or receive something from email, I can't save directly into the new folder I created...it has to go into either the Downloads folder or one of the major folders rather than a subfolder. Is there anyway around this? It's pretty straightforward in Microsoft, not sure why it's not in Mac.
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Questions about my library just moved to NAS. Download errors. Would USB be better?
Thanks for reading. My situation is that my itunes library is running about 500gb and I needed to get it off my imac. I bought a 2TB NAS and copied the entire library folder to that drive and changed itunes to go there.
What I'm finding is that downloading daily podcasts is a chore. It's real slow. I had to turn off simultaneous downloads and allow only a single download at a time. Otherwise it would certainly beach ball.
Also, buying anything from itunes seems to result in a "network reset" error and I have to sit there and click "resume" 2 or 3 times.
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I also use this library to feed the apple TV that we use a lot.
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Make a split library portable
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In the layout above right, with the media folder (everything in the red box) inside the library folder, the library is considered to be portable. A portable library can be moved from one path to another without breaking the links from the library to the media, and being self-contained it is much easier to backup and restore. (You do backup, don't you?).
You can rearrange things to make a split library portable by taking a number of small steps which don't break the library.
Before you start any media files that are outside of the media folder will need to be consolidated. If the library is in the old style layout then it should be upgraded to iTunes Media Organization (Library > Organize Library > Rearrange files in the folder <Media Folder>) to ensure that iPod Games, Mobile Applications etc. are brought inside the media folder, otherwise the links to these won't survive changes in the path of the library.
The basic non-fatal manipulations are:
You can create or connect to an alternate set of library files by holding down Shift (Win) or Option (Mac) when starting iTunes. (Note iTunes will continue to use this library until you use the same method again.)
You can move the library files to a new location and connect to it there as long as the media stays put.
You can move the library files and the media together if the media folder is a direct subfolder of the library folder.
If you have already moved/copied the media content from a subfolder of the library folder to a different location then you only need to copy the library files for it to appear as if you have moved the entire library in the way allowed above. I.e. just copy the library files into the parent folder of the media folder.
You can rename the media folder to iTunes Media (if it isn't already) if the media folder is inside the library folder.
iTunes uses the name of the folder holding the library files as the window title. Having made a library "portable" you may need to take a final step of renaming the library folder to iTunes or, if the library files have ended up at the root of a drive, moving all of the library files and content folders into a new folder called iTunes.
IMPORTANT: After each change you need to open, test and close the relevant library before attempting another change. If a change broke the library, undo it or revert to using the previous set of library files.
In essence all you need to do to join up a split library and make it portable is copy the library files into the parent folder of the media folder on the external/secondary drive and use the hold-down-shift/option-when-starting-iTunes method to connect to it. Other manipulations may be required to normalize the library so that the library and media folders have standard names.
In your case I'm suggesting that you can use 2. to relocate your library files to a faster internal drive while leaving the media on the NAS (splitting the library), and that you would then use 4. to join your split library back together again before attempting to move it to a different drive.
After using 2. you would need to make sure that under iTunes Preferences > Advanced the media folder was pointed to iTunes Media on the NAS. There is also an issue with such split libraries that iTunes can sometimes reset the media folder if the NAS/external appears to be offline when iTUnes starts up.
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Uploading to online data storage: Now cannot download songs into iTunes
Hello all.
I am not seeing this one on any FAQs, knowledge bases, or discussion boards yet:
I am doing my initial upload of files to SugarSync, a highly-recommended online data storage service. Since I started, I cannot download songs into iTunes, even from the iTunes Store.
On any new downloads from the iTunes Store, the song DOES appear in the Music library view but immediately after completing the download it shows the exclamation point warning that the file is not in its location. The new folders get created properly within the iTunes Music folder but the subfolder where the song should be is empty. Each time I had to write iTunes Support to get them to make the files available.
I can still add files manually, no problem. E.g., I can add *.mp3 or *.wav files or folders, I can convert them to AAC, etc. The glitch seems to occur only when automated loads into iTunes are operating.
As a test, I downloaded a song from Amazon. Here the problem was different but I could work around it manually. Normally the Amazon process loads songs automatically into iTunes, too. Here again, the download did create the proper folder in the iTunes Music folder, as it should, but this time the symptoms were reversed:
(a) the mp3 file WAS in its folder as it should be (w/the iTunes DL, the file was NOT there)
(b) the song did NOT appear in the iTunes Music view (w/the iTunes DL, the song DID appear)
(c) I was able to browse to the file and tell it manually to load into iTunes (w/iTunes I had to write Support and wait a day).
(I wonder what's the cause of the differences between the two cases.)
Strictly speaking, I can't PROVE the problem has anything to do with SugarSync (which otherwise seems good so far), but the DL problem started as soon as I started using it. Something in the SugarSync upload or file-monitoring process, or an odd thin gin iTunes, seems to be preventing automated, direct loads into iTunes. And since the data service runs in background, so it can monitor file changes, that might mean I can't buy music anymore! Obviously that would be a dealbreaker with SS. (I have contacted SS on this but they've not had fair chance to reply yet.)
1) Anyone else have this problem?
2) Is this permanent or just temporary while I am doing the initial upload?
3) Anyone know a solution?
(FYI, I am a highly-experienced user and otherwise quite handy with iTunes files, library moves, and backups. My library is entirely consolidated and all AAC.)
Thanks.
(Oh, and this occurred in both iTunes 8 and the new iTunes 9, so it seems unrelated to the upgrade this week.)UPDATE 1. CHANGING BROWSER HELPED -- OR DID IT?
I called Apple iTunes Support, who said the problem is new to them. The technician's hypothesis was that something, perhaps browser-related, was interfering with the initial creation of a temporary file (which should go to the Recycle Bin) that instead causes the completed file to go to there.
He noted that iTunes, though not going through one's browser onscreen, does use settings within one's default browser. I use Mozilla Firefox, so we switched to IE as the default browser, restarted iTunes, and the song downloaded with no problem! Then I switched back to Mozilla, restarted iTunes, and it worked AGAIN with no problem!
(Dutifully I advised SugarSync, which is still investigating.)
UPDATE 2: ARTIST NAME CHANGE - SOME FILES GOT MIS-MOVED / MIS-CHANGED
Definitely something still wrong. This time some pre-existing song entries (not new downloads) lost their connection to their source file.
In iTunes, which manages folder names for artists and albums automatically, I corrected the spelling for an Artist, so immediately iTunes renamed the folder, and automatically SugarSync noted the change to be uploaded. While the changed folder name and all the songs within were still uploading to SS, in iTunes I saw exclamation points come up -- but only for some of them. Most files got moved or changed correctly, but several lost connection to their file (i.e., the file was removed for the original misnamed folder but never moved into the correctly-named folder). Weird.
Worse, in only some of those cases did I find the missing *.m4a file in the Recycle bin. (I had to retrieve old, original *.mp3 versions from another folder and re-import each into iTunes manually.) I've never seen iTunes have a problem managing an Artist rename until I started using the live SS process.
(I've reported this to SS and asked if there is a way to disable temporarily SS to see if that's the problem.)
[Note: I am willing to try downloads again but I am wary of trying to rename entire Artists (Folder) again. That was a lot of work.]
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UPDATE 3: SERIES OF TESTS - 1 FAILURE USING iTUNES
Still problem occurs, but not always. Today, I rebooted PC. I tried CD, iTunes, & Amazon. I varied having the browser open when using iTunes.
Here are the results of a series of attempts to download songs. "FAIL" means the file did not load properly into iTunes or loaded but lost its connection (exclamation point warning).
# Source Mozilla #Songs Result
1 CD Closed 1 OK
2 iTunes Closed 1 OK
3 Amazon Open 2 OK
4 iTunes Open 1 FAIL
5 Amazon Open 1 OK
6 iTunes Closed 1 OK
7 Amazon Open 2 OK
8 iTunes Open 2 OK
(I reported this to SS. Hoping they'll test and find the problem.) -
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Now, when I go to the mountain lion image in the app store, and press 'download' It won't let me download at all. ??What to do??Back up all data.
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You may be prompted to sign in. If that doesn't solve the problem, quit the application and continue as below.
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Emelie,
which plug-in do you want to install?
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CS4 Photo downloader - can I change the default path?
I'm using Bridge on Windows 7 x64. I have 2 hard drives exclusively for photographs. I never, ever store them in 'C:\Users\Mary\Pictures'. But when I download images with the Photo Downloader, C:\Users\Mary\Pictures' is the folder I'm offered. There's no box in which to paste a folder string - and it takes 9 clicks (including a couple in the scroll bar of the dialog box) to navigate to 'S:\Pictures, Initial\2 - Initial Negative Scans\2010 Initial Scans\[current subfolder]'. Is there any way of making the downloader believe that I always want to download to S:\Pictures, Initial\2 - Initial Negative Scans\2010 Initial Scans\....? I'm used to editing the Registry, but I can't find anything to edit in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Bridge CS4\Preferences. Thanks Mary
Curt You're right, it is something in Win 7.
I remembered that I have CS4 on my laptop, which is still running WinXP, and tried the Photo Downloader there. It had remembered the last folder I pointed it to, way back in September.
I then found a note telling myself what I had done to stop Bridge from using the c:\docs & settings\.....my pictures folder in XP. I'd used a utility that changes your default pictures, videos, etc., folders to whatever you want them to be.
I never keep anything in them, so I used the utility in Win 7 to change the default Pictures folder to 'S:\Z\ Pictures'. When I opened Bridge Photo Downloader, the 'location' folder was now 'S:\Z\ Pictures'. I navigated from there to 'S:\Pictures, Initial\2 - Initial Negative Scans\2010 Initial Scans', created a subfolder, uploaded some raw files from the card reader, closed Bridge, and rebooted.
When I re-opened Bridge and the Photo Downloader, it still pointed to my last used folder. Triumph!
Thanks for your help. I wouldn't have got there without it.
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Mary -
I created several documents last week, which were duplicates of documents created more than a year ago. Once duplicated in "numbers", I made changes, renamed, changed the location and began working on those documents. Now I cannot open them unless I upgrade to a newer version of numbers for $19.95. Is there a way around this? From the reviews I have read, not everyone is pleased with the newer version of numbers.
Numbers 3.0 is a free download for anyone with Numbers 2.3 on the Mac.
But from your description you may already have 3.0 on your Mac. Look for Numbers in your main Applications folder. That is probably the new version that you need to open the recently edited documents.
The old version would then be in a subfolder within Applications named iWork '09. That one can't open documents edited with the new version.
In any case, you do not need to pay for a new verson. If the new one is not already on your Mac, you can download it for free.
SG
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