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The
\n Dowbrigade is going crazy ,again. Doncha just hate it when, unexpectedly,
\n one of your main work tools alters its behavior, loses abilities, or
\n makes you change the way you do things due to "updates" or
\n changed preferences? One of the reasons it bothers us so much is because
\n we lack the patience or technical acumen to figure out what changed,
\n or how.<\/p>\n
Yes, there was a specific point that prompted this
\n whine. Since we upgrades to OSX three years ago, our main browser has
\n been Safari, which we have grown comfortable and accustomed to using
\n daily, although the machine in our office is running Firefox in an
\n attempt to diversify and feign hipness.<\/p>\n
Anyway, one of the useful features we like about Safari
\n is that by right-clicking on an image, we get a drop down menu including "Save
\n image as…" which allows me to rename and place the image in
\n the folder we desire. It even remembers the last folder we stored something
\n in, so we can often complete the entire operation in two clicks.<\/p>\n
But last week sometime, on our main desktop machine,
\n that hidden command somehow morphed into "Save image to desktop" which
\n unceremoniously drops a copy of the image on the desktop, under whatever
\n long and twisted name the distant designers have given it, from where
\n it takes upwards of half a dozen clicks to dig it out, rename it, and
\n stick it in our images folder. Worse, after we have done this
\n several times, our desktop is so cluttered with image icons that we
\n cannot tell which one is the one we just downloaded, as the "Save
\n to desktop" command at no point allows you to see the name of
\n the image you are saving!<\/p>\n
As usual, we ended up questioning our own memory,
\n sanity and intelligence. But on our trusty iBook, Safari still allows
\n us to "Save image as…" and to select a name and a place
\n for each one. What happened to the Safari on our desktop machine?
\n We have searched the preference panels in vain for an option to turn
\n this valuable command back on.<\/p>\n
We suspect the disappearance is due to the insidious
\n and silent "upgrades" mandated by Apple’s Automatic Updater.
\n The only other logical explanation is that we somehow inadvertently
\n changed a preference setting that we now cannot find in order to change
\n it back. It wouldn’t be the first time.<\/p>\n
This is really bothering us, as we use graphic images
\n in almost every posting and we have been wasting time and getting frustrated
\n poking around our desktop looking for the pictures we just saved, trying
\n to guess what tr_8843.pic.small90738882.jpg depicts without having
\n to open it up.<\/p>\n
Any Mac users out there? Anyone familiar with Safari? Are
\n we finally going crazy? Has anyone else noticed this change? It the
\n loss of "Save image as…" an "upgrade" or a "downgrade"?
\n If it is an upgrade, is there any way to downgrade it back the way
\n it used to be? <\/p>\n
On a related note, if any readers have installed the
\n new RSS Safari for Tiger, does it have "Save image as…" or "Save
\n image to desktop"?<\/p>\n
Unfortunately it bothers us enough that if we can’t
\n get "Same image as…" back, we will be doing all our blogging
\n on the laptop or moving permanently to Firefox (which has other problems
\n related to blogging in html as we do) May the Software Gods save us
\n before we drown in desktop debris! <\/p>\n
Followup: Sam Kass set us straight and solved the problem – see comment below!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Dowbrigade is going crazy ,again. Doncha just hate it when, unexpectedly, one of your main work tools alters its behavior, loses abilities, or makes you change the way you do things due to "updates" or changed preferences? One of … Continue reading