Feb 13, '04 10:23:00AM • Contributed by: inspired_tmu
But my favorite change is that you can now drag-and-drop onto the Downloads window! Links, files, even your location bar are applicable candidates.
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Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
Feb 13, '04 10:23:00AM • Contributed by: inspired_tmu
It seems as though Apple read my mind and tailor-fitted Safari v125 just for me. The Downloads window has received a huge boost with the latest Safari release. As mentioned in previous hints, you can now (1) Control-Click on an item to bring up a contextual menu (there's still no way to reload successful (or even failed) downloads AFAIK, but a definite improvement), and (2) option-click on the 'time remaining' label to change the text to the download speed.
But my favorite change is that you can now drag-and-drop onto the Downloads window! Links, files, even your location bar are applicable candidates.
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Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
To download again, ctrl-click on the item, choose Copy Address and then paste it into the address bar (not neat, but it works).
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
A copied URL can be pasted directly into the Downloads window.
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
The drag-n-drop tip is excellent!
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
All they need now is a checkbox that reads, "Close this window on comptetion of download."
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
Hear Hear.
There's a Safari plugin Saft v6 that does this
You can also use shortcuts, kioskmode and more with this useful plugin
Resuming a Broken download
I had an issue with the UT2004 Demo download where it appeared to complete - the .download file was deleted, etc. - but it was in fact a couple of megabytes too small. I couldn't figure out how to resume the download with Safari, but I found the BitTorrent link for the demo. So I used BitTorrent to get the file and it only needed to download the missing part.
Resuming a Broken download
Actually this is a bug in BitTorrent v. 3.3a ( latest). If you try to resume a torrent file it will bring up the 'Replace' button but will resume as it should anyhow with the partially d/l file. But the principal of resumable d/l is a good point.
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
May be you guys noticed already, but double-clicking on the icon of the
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
I don't get it. Why would you drag a file on the download window?
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window (a use)
One reason drag-and-drop downloading is useful in Safari is because it supports downloading dropped bookmarks. This becomes insanely useful on, say, an imageboard, where you have an entire thread's worth of images (fifty, seventy, maybe even a hundred bookmarks to the images right next to each other) that you want to download. Just call up the history, select the images you want to save, and boom, instant mass-download. Doesn't even set off any robot scripts, either. The one caveat is that you have to actually click the links to have them in the history to download them.
Drag and drop items to Safari 1.2's Download window
Now if it would only let me drag links into a Finder window, to download files directly into different folders without having to go into preferences every single time and set the download folder to where I want the next file to go, that would be one more step towards Safari actually being the improvement over IE that everyone pretends it is. ;-) |
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