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gelinas
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response 50 of 127:
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Jan 9 18:30 UTC 2005 |
It's a browser preference. Look for a 'download directory' option.
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rcurl
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response 51 of 127:
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Jan 9 19:45 UTC 2005 |
The only download preferences in Netscape are "Open the download manager",
"Open a progress dialog", and "Don't open anything". Intentional downloads,
however, go to Home automatically, while .pdf (link) downloads go to the
Desktop. It seems to be a OS X preference, but I can't find anything relating
to donwload destinations in System Preferences.
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gelinas
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response 52 of 127:
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Jan 10 02:48 UTC 2005 |
Thanks for the hint, Rane: System Preferences, Internet, Web.
:)
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rcurl
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response 53 of 127:
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Jan 10 06:11 UTC 2005 |
???? - is that a path? I don't see it in System Preferences.
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gelinas
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response 54 of 127:
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Jan 10 12:22 UTC 2005 |
I wonder if they changed System Preferences somewhere along the line. I'm
running version 10.2.8.
In 10.2.8, i start System Preferences and click the "Show all" icon. In the
"Internet & Network" section, I click the "Internet" icon, which opens a
panel with four tabs: .Mac, iDisk, Email and Web. The last tab identifies
the default browser and specifies were files should be downloaded to, with a
"Select..." button to change that location.
Which version are you running?
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rcurl
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response 55 of 127:
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Jan 10 17:49 UTC 2005 |
10.3.5. There is no "Internet" icon in the Internet and Network group,
only .Mac, Network, QuickTime and Sharing. None of these have anything
equivalent to what you describe under "Web".
But it occurred to me that perhaps they moved such preferences to Safari -
and that is the case. If one chooses Safari as one's web browser, one can
choose the download location. One also chooses one's "default" web browser
in the Safari Preferences. I've taken a chance and changed (in Safari),
"Remove Download List Items" from "Manually" to "Upon Successful
Download". Now I'll see if that affects what they call "Safe" files (which
includes .pdf files) downloads. Stay tuned....
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rcurl
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response 56 of 127:
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Apr 3 19:00 UTC 2005 |
(I only just now read #55 again. I guess I did that, and it didn't work
for Netscape.)
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rcurl
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response 57 of 127:
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Apr 3 19:13 UTC 2005 |
[Mac Help] says you can choose the startup disk (OS 9 or OS X) if you
"hold down the Option key as you restart your computer. You'll see the
available startup disks and can select one." But when I start up holding
down the Option button what I get is a window showing only an OS X icon
and two "buttons", one of which (an arrow in a circle) does nothing and
the other of which (a right-facing arrow) completes the startup in OS X.
Is there another way to start up in OS 9? (It is OS 9.2.2 on this
machine.)
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rcurl
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response 58 of 127:
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Apr 15 20:40 UTC 2005 |
Hmmm...no answers to #57. Maybe I'll be luckier with
I learned about OS X "Maintenance" and other stuff from the article
"Prevent Mac Disaster", from Macworld, 2/05. In order to expedite
maintenance I downloaded OnyX. This has buttons for running Maintenance
Scripts (which otherwise would almost never be run, since my computer is
usually not on when they are run automatically), and for "Cleaning"
(deleting log files and caches and some other stuff). The article did not
say, however, if there is any "Maintenance" or "Cleaning" that for some
reason I should NOT do. Not all the categories are self evident. Does
anyone have any do and don't suggetions regarding running OnyX?
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rcurl
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response 59 of 127:
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May 27 19:21 UTC 2005 |
Further to the same question in #58: when I run Cleaning on all categories
of files in Onyx, I get one error message, Error 1, which reads
find: /private/_tmp_/printing.523/Preview of "....[long title]....".
Doesn't anyone else running Mac OS X use Onyx for maintenance and cleaning?
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rcurl
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response 60 of 127:
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May 30 19:24 UTC 2005 |
I guess no one runs Onyx....sigh. Mac users might try it, though: free
download.
But let me ask a new question. I am using Terminal to ftp files to a remote
server. I do this with the put command and drag and drop the file into it.
It looks like this:
ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html
local: /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html remote: /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||55412|)
550 /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html: No such file or directory
As you see, it doesn't work. However, if I put the index.html file in the root
direction, as /index.html, and then put that, it works. That looks like this:
ftp> put /index.html
local: /index.html remote: /index.html
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||55433|)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /index.html
100% |*************************************| 3827 3.14 MB/s 00:00
ETA
226 Transfer complete.
3827 bytes sent in 00:00 (22.07 KB/s)
What is the problem with putting the file from a deeper directory?
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twenex
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response 61 of 127:
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May 31 00:28 UTC 2005 |
You might want to try "cd'ing" to the correct directory. Either use:
ftp> cd /R/NSS/nss-tnc/
ftp> put index.html
or cd to each directory in turn, then put. I've found that BSD versions of
Unix utilities (which is what your Mac uses, and no, it doesn't matter what
"BSD versions" means), are quite limited compared to their counterparts on
Linux. However, you can download the versions used on Linux distros (the GNU
tools) and put them on your Mac. Your mission, should you choose to accept
it, is to read:
http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac/opensource_sw_macosx_2k2.html
You may also want to check out the Gentoo on Mac OS X project.
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/macos-guide.xml)
(I find gentoo's portage much more easy to use than debian's apt-get. To use
the commandline apt-get tools, you must either know the exact name of the
package you're downloading, or browse through some [imho] unfriendly
text-based and gui-tools. portage puts directories for each of its packages
in directories (under /usr/portage on Gentoo Linux), which you can browse at
your leisure. Interestingly, portage was also inspired by the ports system
from BSD, on which MacOS is based.
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rcurl
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response 62 of 127:
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May 31 00:48 UTC 2005 |
Thanks! I think I'll keep it simple, and cd to the directory with the file
(which is simpler than moving the file into the root directory, as I did).
I recall my first procedure working previously, however, so I wonder what
has gone wrong. I don't think I upgraded - although I did clean all
caches. Maybe that lost some links. Is there a cache I should leave alone?
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twenex
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response 63 of 127:
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May 31 14:47 UTC 2005 |
Not that I know of.
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blaise
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response 64 of 127:
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May 31 16:06 UTC 2005 |
The other answer is to use the extended form of the put command,
specifying different source and target names.
put index.html /path/to/index.html
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rcurl
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response 65 of 127:
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May 31 17:32 UTC 2005 |
Too bad "help put" in ftp isn't more informative, like the man pages.
I'll try #64.
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rcurl
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response 66 of 127:
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May 31 17:39 UTC 2005 |
Re #64: do you mean like ftp> put index.html /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html ?
This didn't work.
Changing directory also didn't work. It gave
ftp> cd /R/NSS/nss-tnc
550 /R/NSS/nss-tnc: No such file or directory
The problem seems to be with the specification of the root directory as /.
Is there a more specific way to specify the root?
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blaise
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response 67 of 127:
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May 31 20:48 UTC 2005 |
Is /R/NSS/nss-tnc the path to where the file is on the Mac or where you
want to put it on the server? If the former, then you need to use 'put
/R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html index.html'; if the latter then you first need
to create the subdirectories.
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gull
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response 68 of 127:
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May 31 20:56 UTC 2005 |
Re resp:61: aptitude isn't too bad for browsing apt packages. dselect
and taskselect suck mightily. Dependency handling is still sometimes
confusing, though.
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twenex
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response 69 of 127:
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May 31 22:46 UTC 2005 |
Actually, I prefer synaptic. In my experience, when you uninstall stuff with
aptitude, it also uninstalls a ton of stuff you DIDN'T want uninstalled along
with the stuff you *did*. If I were in to such monstrous bogosities, wouldn't
I be running Windows?
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rcurl
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response 70 of 127:
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Jun 1 00:44 UTC 2005 |
Re #67: I think the point you raise is where the problem is. ftp> is on
the server to which I have "ftp'd", so that most commands apply to the
directory at that server. However drag-and-drop of a file in Mac OS X is
*supposed* to make the root directory referenced to the Mac directory. It
does, in fact, do this, if the file is in the Mac root directory. However
the problem is that a path instruction is not followed. That is, ftp> put
index.html works if I first put index.html in the Mac root directory, but
ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html doesn't, even though the path from the
Mac root is properly specified.
I think I mentioned that ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html index.html
did not work. Here, let me try it again...
ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html index.html
local: /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html remote: index.html
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||60791|)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for index.html
100% |*************************************| 3827 211.26 KB/s
00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete.
3827 bytes sent in 00:00 (23.46 KB/s)
HEY! It worked this time. What the heck.....
Well, if this has solved the problem, then I thank you heartily.
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twenex
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response 71 of 127:
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Jun 1 14:28 UTC 2005 |
Ah.
No worries.
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gelinas
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response 72 of 127:
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Jun 5 09:40 UTC 2005 |
In #60 above, you report that
put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html
doesn't work, with the error, "550 /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html: No such file or
directory", and in #66, you note that
put index.html /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html
didn't work, either. Note that in both cases, the remote path is the same as
the Mac path: "/R/NSS/nss-tnc/". I don't know which remote machine you are
using, but it seems unlikely that it would have a directory named
"/R/NSS/nss-tnc/".
I find the report that
put /index.html
worked to be curious: Do you have 'write' access to the root directory on
the receiving machine? More importantly, where did the file end up on that
machine?
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rcurl
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response 73 of 127:
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Jun 5 17:51 UTC 2005 |
I noticed that also, that that path is not on the remote machine. It seems
to be a syntax problem. It appears it has to be <put [path/file] [file]>,
not <put [file] [path/file]>, as first suggested here.
I am already connected by SFTP to the ultimate directory on the remote
machine when I drag and drop the file I want to transfer. Given that ftp>
<put [path/file] [file]> works, I too am a little suprised that just put
/[file] works if the file is in the Mac root directory. Maybe I don't need
the file name in the path, but it doesn't hurt? I'll try that:
ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc index.html
local: /R/NSS/nss-tnc remote: index.html
/R/NSS/nss-tnc: not a plain file.
Nope. The file name has to be part of the path.
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rcurl
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response 74 of 127:
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Jun 20 20:07 UTC 2005 |
Is there a way to turn off the "suggestions" (prior urls) window that
comes up when entering a url or site ID at a site you have previously
visited, in Firefox? I couldn't find such an option in Preferences.
This annoying feature (to me) is worst on some sites that require your ID
and PW, and the suggested ID list obscures the PW entry box, so you *have*
to use the list to continue.
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