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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: robJ on Jun 21, '05 04:25:32PM

I'm running 10.4.1 and I see no "Where From:" info for any of my downloaded files. Any ideas why not?



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: boredzo on Jun 22, '05 04:39:41AM

they're in the 'More Info' section.



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: bdog on Jun 22, '05 07:50:04AM

I also don't have that info in downloaded files, not in More Info. And I am making sure that I am getting info on the original, uncompressed file, as I think this info is lost after uncompressing something you downloaded.

I use Camino nightlies. Gonna go post a thread on this @ mozillazine... After I confirm on another computer.



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: robJ on Jun 22, '05 09:17:27AM

Nope, the info isn't there. I've even downloaded files for the sake of checking this hint and there is no "More Info" available in the Get Info window or via the scripts offered in the hint. :/



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: sjk on Jun 22, '05 07:55:20PM

Which browser(s) did you try? It may be a feature of WebKit/WebCore so it won't work with Firefox, et.al.



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: englabenny on Jun 22, '05 08:10:18PM

There's no magic involved; the application doing the download has to set this piece of metadata. I think that currently, only Safari does this.



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: robJ on Jul 02, '05 12:24:09PM

I used Safari to download the files and still no extra info.



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: robJ on Jul 22, '05 07:13:20AM

I've discovered why I was seeing no "More Info" on my downloaded files. It seems that Spotlight is responsible for providing this info and I had excluded my Downloads folder from Spotlight indexing.



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10.4: Open Safari's WhereFrom URLs in the Finder
Authored by: Zonker1967 on Nov 01, '06 10:17:52PM

Old topic, I know....

If you download a file with Safari, it will set the Where From: field. But if you copy that file somewhere else, even on the same volume, it's gone. I just discovered this. So, this means, either make sure you don't move your files after downloading them or we need to find out a way to keep that data intact.

Does anyone know of a copy utility which will keep all metadata intact?



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