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A workaround for a Safari drag-and-drop image bug Web Browsers
Most modern browsers allow you to drag an image straight from the browser window to the desktop to keep, but Safari seems to randomly leave you with an HTML document instead of the image you wanted.

I have found a [possibly roundabout] way of making sure you get the images you need every time rather than spending hours unknowingly collecting HTML documents.

Open a new Textedit.app document and drag all your pictures to its window from safari. When youre done, save it and 'Show Package Contents' on the file in the Finder. There are all your images.
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A workaround for a Safari drag-and-drop image bug
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Nov 17, '03 01:06:05PM
Safari's behavior for fetching drag-n-drop images is odd to begin with, and probably partially at fault.

Rather than pulling the image (if available) from the cache, Safari submits a request for the image from the server, which, if the server refuses such requests for individual image files, results in you downloading the html page that would have resulted had you simply typed the image URL into the location bar.

The other main annoyance of Safari's drag-n-drop fetch method is that if you've spent a great deal of time downloading an image (such as a high-res from a slow server) to the browser window, and then drag it to the desktop, it re-downloads it again. If, however, you can choose to Save the image (after directly accessing it via URL), it saves from the cache.

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Saving Images
Authored by: inspired_tmu on Nov 17, '03 05:02:09PM

Just right-click on the image and select "Save image to disk".

Takes just as much effort as drag-and-drop....



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Saving Images
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Nov 17, '03 06:04:16PM
The physical movement may take the same amount of effort, but bypassing the Save dialog, especially when grabbing a number of images from within a single HTML-rendered page can save a great deal of time.

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Saving Images
Authored by: sjmills on Nov 17, '03 11:44:40PM
Not if you want the images to show up on your desktop and not the downloads folder. Also, d&ding takes much less effort and control than right/control-clicking and navigating to the correct menu item. Just click on the image and whip the mouse to the left/right/bottom of the screen or whatever.

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A workaround for a Safari drag-and-drop image bug
Authored by: gaudior on Nov 17, '03 05:05:42PM

I d-n-d pictures from Safari all the time, and never have had a problem.



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Bad idea! - in some cases.
Authored by: drfreak on Nov 18, '03 03:18:46PM
It's a bad idea to do this if you intend you use JPGs afterwards, because you do not end up with a JPG but rather a TIFF.

If you then go and want to e.g. use this pic on your site, you will have to jpg-compress it AGAIN, which will result in a serious loss of quality.

That's like the copy of a VSH tape. It's worse. A lot.

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Bad idea! - in some cases.
Authored by: MsMercury01 on Jan 22, '04 10:44:58PM

I don't normally have a problem d-n-ding pics to my desktop. If you have a problem with the pics not showing up as .jpg images then look for a downloadable app. called DropJpeg. It's great!
Teri



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A workaround for a Safari drag-and-drop image bug
Authored by: orca498 on Nov 18, '03 08:55:04PM

I have noticed that if you right-click to save an image from a site it won't always save just the image. Sometimes you get an html page. I even got a cgi document once. But, if you right-click and open the image in a new window you can then drag it to the desktop as whatever format it is supposed to be.



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