In article Y6VFb.12988$7D3.1169@fed1read02, "Ed Price"
writes:

Right-click, Save As...?

Sometimes that works -- if you're clicking on a link phrase, it will.
If someone has left you a complete URL path to the file, and you Go to that, it
will do a "left button" load to its temp file, no way to override.
--Mike K.

Oscar loves trash, but hates Spam! Delete him to reply to me.

On 24 Dec 2003 04:24:04 GMT, r (Mike Knudsen)
wrote:

In article Y6VFb.12988$7D3.1169@fed1read02, "Ed Price"
writes:

Right-click, Save As...?

Sometimes that works -- if you're clicking on a link phrase, it will.
If someone has left you a complete URL path to the file, and you Go to that, it
will do a "left button" load to its temp file, no way to override.

So... Let it save it to it's temp file, then select save, save page,
or save page as. One should work. It will not go through another
download. It's will just copy the temp file to where you want it and
you can name it , or use the original.

Or in the case of a true ftp as has been mentioned, just drag and
drop. Explorer treats most files as if they were on the computer. So,
you treat them the same way.

In XP it's difficult to tell , unless looking at the address whether
the address is on the net, or a local folder and just as easy to move.
But as has also been mentioned, they never bother to tell the user
that.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?)
www.rogerhalstead.com

--Mike K.

Oscar loves trash, but hates Spam! Delete him to reply to me.

The problem that BAMA has with Internet Explorer is that it doesn't
return accurate and informative error messages. Where Mozilla and
Opera will tell you that the maximum number of connections have been
made to the ftp site and to try again later, IE just says "The page
cannot be displayed" and then gives you some very misleading
information, "The page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may
need to adjust your browser settings." There are no difficulties with
the web site and there's nothing wrong with your browser settings.
It's just that there are 10 users connected to BAMA, that's all that's
allowed, and you are number 11!

While the methods described here all work, including "drag and drop,"
there are occasionally other problems that seem to plague IE users
that Opera and Mozilla (Netscape) users don't complain about.

While BAMA started out on my office PC, it is now on a much larger and
much faster box. Four Pentium-4 Xeon Processors at 2.4 GHz under one
Gigabyte of RAM and 100+ Gigs of hardware RAID - vs. the older 400 MHz
Pentium II with 128 megs. So that we don't lose anything again, (once
is enough!) BAMA is backed up nightly on a 4-terabyte capacity robotic
tapeloader on site as well as the backups that I keep locally.
Currently, BAMA takes up almost 7GB of storage space containing 25,946
files in 2,515 folders...and still growing! So, suitable mirror sites
are probably few and far between.

Ken K4XL - Replace "invalid" with "net" to reply.
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