<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>John</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 9, 2006, at 11:48 AM, "" <<A href="mailto:dz@caribe.net">dz@caribe.net</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>----- Original Message -----</DIV><DIV>From: John McClernan</DIV><DIV>Sent: 6/9/2006 11:43:22 AM</DIV><DIV>To: <A href="mailto:x4u@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">x4u@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</A></DIV><DIV>Subject: Re: [X4U] How do I stop PDFs from opening?</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>The original question was specific to AdobeReader, but it is </DIV><DIV>reasonable to assume that the original poster who is "annoyed" by the </DIV><DIV>automatic opening of a downloaded file and the time it takes for the </DIV><DIV>subsequent application to launch, would also be annoyed at other </DIV><DIV>downloaded files opening involuntarily, especially if one keeps (too) </DIV><DIV>many applications open simultaneously, or is "under-RAMed". I </DIV><DIV>understand your point, however, my method ALSO helps you avoid </DIV><DIV>malware, since you can choose to scan ANY downloaded file before you </DIV><DIV>open it. That has been the recommendation from several sources, </DIV><DIV>including MacFixit and Apple. I prefer to have more control of </DIV><DIV>opening files, I suppose.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>I agree with you, I personally prefer to have that option disabled, too. I was just nit-picking in response to your comment, which sounded a bit pedantic. Truce? :)</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV> -dZ.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Shore.</DIV><DIV>E-mail humor is frequently misinterpreted</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>John</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- <BR>“The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.”<BR> ~ Anon. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>