Re: Complicated question re: saving files

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 6:47 PM Ryan Coleman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Dec 14, 2020, at 6:10 PM, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:44 PM Ryan Coleman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> > You bet it does - - - - but that's the version that gets stored in /tmp .
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> > 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.
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> > The address that I want is the address where the file is stored - - -
> > its 'home' per se not the address in /tmp ,
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> > I've lost too many pdfs/files because they weren't saved permanently
> > (imo /tmp is not permanent storage!).
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> > Thanks for the ideas!!
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> > Regards
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> 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.
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Sorry - - - - I'm NOT looking for the temporary storage location.
I would like an easy way to grab the 'permanent storage location'.

Regards
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