[MacTUG] Safari Automatically Downloads

[Steve Hellyer]

Hi Jeff,

You likely can't get Safari it to automatically open as that format  
would be considered unsafe. That is it could contain a script virus so  
we don't auto open them after a download.

The open safe files is in Safari Preferences. You can see it only  
includes PDF, Sound etc...

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You can associate your .xslx files with Excel.  Just take one of the  
download file and highlight it icon in the Finder.
Get Info on the file and associate the .xsls or what ever you want  
with the application you want.

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If you set this at least you can double click the download files and  
have Excel open and try to open them.

Hope this helps...

Steve

On 2009-09-04, at 9:18 AM, Jeff Dunnett wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently my Safari 4 installation automatically downloads a file and
> saves it to my desktop.  Is there a way so that the when downloading
> the file it asks me if I want to open it and lets me choose the
> program (or automatically choses but still asked me if I want to open
> it).  I tried Googling it but couldn't find a quick answer.  The
> reason I ask this is that I am having problems downloading Excel
> reports from FORE.  It seems to be producing the reports in the xsl
> when they are really in .xslx format.  The only way I can get them to
> open is if I try to open them on download using IE.  Which is a
> problem on a Mac :)
>
> Regards,
> Jeff

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