[X Newbies] Where do downloads go?

[Clive Read]

Hi Dave and Jon and others who responded

Your help and advice has been outstanding - but have not helped.

I KNOW the file was created 0n 4 August, but when I use Finder and 
select 'Date created exactly 08/04/03 it brings me up 26 Quark files, 
NONE of which have that date. If I select  4/ 8/03 (the non/American 
way of showing the date) , there are 7 files (mostly Quark) but one I 
do not recognise called

DirectoryService.server.log.2

a 4kb document for which there doesn't appear to be an application that 
can open it.

When I go to IE, 5.2.2 and select Download Manager
  there are 14 items there but no dates, and nothing that I don't 
recognise.

The other ANNOYING and MYSTIFYING thing is that I cut and pasted the 
names, before I downloaded the list, into a Quark document that I can't 
find either.

It does look as though I have lost the record of all my Groups members, 
despite all your help and advice.

Any more ideas?

Clive in Spain


On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 09:50 PM, Jon Warms wrote:

> There are two questions here: Where do downloads go? Where did THAT 
> download go?
>
> If you're looking for your last download, and your browser is Safari 
> or IE, it's fairly easy to find the download.
>
> Safari: Go to the Window menu and select Downloads (or type 
> option-command-small L). The last item in the downloads window will be 
> the most recent download. If the download is completed, there is a 
> magnifying glass icon to the right of the download item. Clicking on 
> the magnifying class will open the finder window that contains the 
> downloaded file.
>
> IE: Go to the Window menu and select Download Manager (or type 
> command-4). The last item in the download manager window will be the 
> most recent download. If the download is completed, double-click on 
> its name or the @ icon. In the dialog that appears, clicking on 
> "Reveal in Finder" will open the finder window that contains the 
> downloaded file.
>
> AOL X: Go to Download Manager in the FIle menu. Select the item you're 
> interested in and click "open", or double-click.
>
> Navigator 7.1: Tools>Download Manager. Select the item you're 
> interested in and click on "Show FIle Location" from the window's 
> menu. The path to the file will be shown on the bottom of the Download 
> Manager window, and the finder window that contains the file will > open.
>
> As far as where do downloads go, Safari, AOL, and IE allow you to 
> change the download location from the Preferences panels. You can find 
> the Preferences item in the menu next to the blue apple. Within 
> Preferences, you can specify the download location from the General 
> panel in Safari, the Download panel in AOL, or the Download Options 
> panel from IE.
>
> Navigator's approach is different (AFAIK). You specify the download 
> location in the dialog box that comes up for each download. Or you can 
> specify the helper application from Preferences and choose the default 
> download handling from there.
>
> Finding downloaded files is a recurring problem for even-not-so-newby 
> users in both MacOS and Windows. It doesn't help that the problem's 
> solution is browser- (and browser version-) dependent. Hope this helps 
> a little.
>
> Jon
> ========
> On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 08:48 AM, Mac OS X Newbies wrote:
>
>> Message-Id: <F908A8FA-C8DD-11D7-81B8-0030657BC948 at pacbell.net>
>> From: David Flory <daflory at pacbell.net>
>> Subject: Re: [X Newbies] Where do downloads go?
>> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 06:49:32 -0700
>>
>> Clive Read wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know that the file was called. Any idea where I will find it?
>>
>> Wherever it is..    :-)    If what others said doesn't help then get
>> into the Finder and type Command-F and then use Date Created and enter
>> the date you downloaded the file. That should get you a short list
>> which includes what you want. As I keep telling my wife, the Find
>> utility should be one of your most used utilities.
>>
>> Fair winds and happy bytes, Dave Flory
>> -- 
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>>      Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick.
>
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