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This is not so much a hint as it is a bug in Safari. When you option click a link in Safari, the browser starts to download that link. I use this well-known method to download images from my family members' websites. Safari has no trouble with identical names -- if a pict01.jpg file already exists in the download folder, it simply renames the newest file to pict01-1.jpg.

However, this is not so if you use a downloads folder whose name starts with a space. In that case, Safari simply starts the download and at the end of the download, tells you the file could not be written.

Solution: don't select a download folder with a name trhat starts with a space...
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Avoid a bug in Safari's downloaded file handling
Authored by: JimMueller on Jul 20, '04 11:17:36AM

I had heard when we first beagan running 10.0 that it is very dangerous to start folders and filenames with a space - thy could begin to disappear.

My wife had to learn to stop her pre-X habit of prepending one or more spaces before a name to kick it to the top of a list view.



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Avoid a bug in Safari's downloaded file handling
Authored by: dr_turgeon on Jul 20, '04 03:26:57PM

I've used a number of different characters (including spaces) in OSX to move things to the top. I haven't noticed the behaviour that you mention. My desktop is my downloads folder so I can't speak to that issue.

BTW I like the solution to the download folder bug. Doctor says, "Don't do that anymore."



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