Safari in lion download panel - can't drag download
Hi, just loaded Lion on a machine and we are having trouble with our work flow.
We get a lot of audio and video made available to us via the web and we used
to be able to open the Download panel and drag the titlebar icon to this panel
and it would grab the file and put it in downloads for us.
Now we can not find a way to do this.
Dragging the title bar to the desktop for example now creates a .webloc file
and not the actual audio or video.
Please help or we will have to revert back another machine.
Thanks,
Ian
right click (secondary click) the file you want to download and then hit save to downloads.
if the link goes directly to the media, like an mp3 or .flv, then it'll donwload that linked file.
You can also choose save as. You can also choose to change your downloads folder to something else in Safari>Preferences>General
notice where it says "save download files to:" and I have downloads but you can make it anything else which would change the place wher eyour media is downloaded.
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