Hi Ronni I was using Firefox 10.0. I tried Safari, no problems, file opened on screen and I saved it as a PDF.
I went back to Firefox and did some more investigation. Right click does not give the option 'Save As'. I tried 'Open Link in New Tab' and ' Open Link in New Window' and was rewarded with a blank page. The only other options are: Bookmark This Link Save Link As... Send Link... Copy Link Location Inspect Element I did have Firefox set to ask where to save the file, when I looked in the Preferences neither option was selected so I checked 'Downloads' and tried again. It did not open the download window and when I looked in the Downloads Folder there were 7 copies of the PDF. I tried them and they all opened. I looked again at the Downloads window and there were 7 'failed' with no file size. I then reopened the Downloads Folder and all 7 files have disappeared, they are still showing as failed in the Downloads window. But searching 'This Mac' in Finder shows none! A bit scary! I gave up Safari a number of OS ago but I can't remember why. Maybe I should re-embrace Safari? How do I get my bookmarks from Firefox into Safari? Normally I should be able to find this out for myself but last week I ended up in RPH with an adverse drug reaction and I am still rather 'off the air'! Regards Diana On 14/02/2012, at 2:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > 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> -- 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>
