Hi Diana, Are you downloading the PDF in Safari? Is this only happening with one particular PDF or all PDFs?
Before you reply a couple of things you could try: Try ‘Save As’ and see if that allows you to download the PDF. Right-click or control-click anywhere in the PDF element and select Save PDF As... from the contextual menu. What setting do you have in Safari > Preferences > General ‘Save downloaded files to': Downloads? Could be pointing to an invalid directory, try changing it to Desktop & see if it downloads correctly and can be opened. If it can you could try changing it back to downloads and see if it works then. Cheers, Ronni On 14/02/2012, at 12:29 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: > Hi List > > I keep getting an error message when I try to download a PDF. It says: > > Download Error > > /Users/diana/Downloads/filename.pdf could not be opened because an unknown > error occurred. > > Try saving to disk first then opening the file. > > I thought I was saving it to disk! I can view it under Quick View but that > does not allow me to save it as a PDF. Any suggestions? > > MacBookPro 10.6.8 > > Best wishes to all from Diana > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
