Re: Complicated question re: saving files
Ryan Coleman <[email protected]>
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> On Dec 14, 2020, at 6:10 PM, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:44 PM Ryan Coleman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Does your browser give you the option when contextually-clicking (right-click, control-click, whatever your system does) and give you a choice of “open file location”? The major browsers for other platforms do this. >> > You bet it does - - - - but that's the version that gets stored in /tmp . > > I find, when I'm grabbing lots of research papers anyway, that its > easier to just ask for each on to be opened in Okular, my presently > preferred pdf environment, and then grab the whole bunch of pdfs and > save them using file and directory tools. > This means that I can save say 50 files in under a minute. If I save > each one the 'save as' mechanism in okular makes me sort through my > folder list (think 6 to 12 levels deep) for each save and that's > tedious. > > The address that I want is the address where the file is stored - - - > its 'home' per se not the address in /tmp , > > I've lost too many pdfs/files because they weren't saved permanently > (imo /tmp is not permanent storage!). > > Thanks for the ideas!! > > Regards None of the programs I have used (on other platforms — which, by the way, I don’t think you’ve said what programs you are using, what build, etc.) give me the temp location of a file that is saved. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota [email protected] http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list