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There has been some recent discussion here about Safari's cache, and some (myself included) have questioned the need for caching to be enabled at all. Well, I just ran across a task that seemingly won't work without caching enabled: uploading photos to a WordPress site.

I had been using Firefox for my blogging needs, but decided to try Safari again since I heard that some of the editing tools now worked in Safari as well (and I don't like having to launch Firefox just to update a blog). It was working fine on my girlfriend's new MBP, but I couldn't upload photos with my iBook. Then I remembered that I had locked the cache folder (~/Library » Caches » Safari). I unlocked it (Get Info » uncheck the Locked checkbox), and uploading worked fine.

I thought this hint might be helpful to others, as some third-party utilities (Safari Enhancer that I know of, maybe others) offer an option to disable Safari's cache.
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Enable Safari cache to fix WordPress photo upload
Authored by: styrafome on Feb 12, '07 08:55:03AM

Just a note that this is not WordPress-specific. From experience, I can confirm that disabling Safari's cache may cause a failure of browser-based uploads on other web sites as well.



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Enable Safari cache to fix WordPress photo upload
Authored by: mozart111 on Feb 12, '07 10:04:09AM

Safari will not post to Photobucket or even eBay too without the cache enabled. I used to always need to use Firefox to upload to these sites. I discovered this bug of Safari a few months ago.

I used to lock the Safari Cache folder but because of this anomaly I keep the cache active now. Snd empty it a lot each day.



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Editing WordPress in Safari
Authored by: rgray on Feb 13, '07 05:32:14AM

I just upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.1 and the supposed WYSIWYG writing panels still aren't in Safari. The tool icons show up as buttons and the text is displayed in all its HTML glory.... ;-{

I use Camino for the task.



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