Key command to get the downloads window to show up.
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From: dorayme on 28 Jun 2010 19:16 In article <slrni2hg0q.1igv.ianji33(a)zenatode.org.uk>, Ian Gregory <ianji33(a)gmail.com> wrote: > When I hear "downloads window" I think > of the window which displays downloads in progress and allows you to > pause or resume them etc. Yes, me too. It is harder to ask a question on usenet that does not get misunderstood than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Which is why I have a very sound principle: Never ask question on usenet. Yes, I break this but that is because of my lack of moral fibre. -- dorayme
From: Ian Gregory on 28 Jun 2010 19:23 On 2010-06-28, dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > In article <slrni2gt8b.1i27.ianji33(a)zenatode.org.uk>, > Ian Gregory <ianji33(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you click on "Window" in the menu bar when Safari is active do you >> get a menu which includes an item called "Downloads"? > > Yes. Thank you. It is 'Option Command L'. Happy to help. > I wonder what the other 14 posts lined up after you say, I am > frightened to look in case any of them say, quite rightly of > course, "Geez, how long have you been using X? ..." <g> Nobody said anything like that because they couldn't even agree on what you were asking!! I immediately guessed that you must be talking about the Downloads window associated with Safari but Michelle thought you were asking about opening the Downloads folder in a Finder window and then someone pointed out that the Downloads folder didn't even exist in Tiger. We were too busy arguing with each other to give you a hard time:-) Ian -- Ian Gregory http://www.zenatode.org.uk/
From: dorayme on 28 Jun 2010 19:32 In article <michelle-840EDA.08544128062010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > Considering that that window automatically opens whenever you download > something, and that there's a menu item right in Safari to open it at any > other time, whereas there are no menus or shortcuts to open the Downloads > folder's window, it appears to me that that's what the OP wants. Ah but you leave out how temporarily stupid and inattentive I might have been. Now now Michelle, no need to flatter me so, we have always been good enemies, right? As a matter of fact, I had not forgot that it can be conjured up by downloading. And even, in desperation, thought of downloading a small zipped file (from a link an HTML doc) from my home server to bring it up, and making a bookmark for it! Option Command L is easier though, never mind that it is so sane and boring. -- dorayme
From: Barry Margolin on 29 Jun 2010 00:22 In article <slrni2hg0q.1igv.ianji33(a)zenatode.org.uk>, Ian Gregory <ianji33(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps the OP will come back and clarify - did they want a keyboard > shortcut to open the Downloads folder in a Finder window, or one to open > the Downloads window associated with Safari. He did come back and clarify. He said he wasn't talking about something app-specific, he wanted the place where all his downloads are saved. Which sounds like a description of the Downloads folder. -- Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
From: dorayme on 29 Jun 2010 03:35
In article <barmar-A10F2F.00222329062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delega ted.example.com>, Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote: > In article <slrni2hg0q.1igv.ianji33(a)zenatode.org.uk>, > Ian Gregory <ianji33(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Perhaps the OP will come back and clarify - did they want a keyboard > > shortcut to open the Downloads folder in a Finder window, or one to open > > the Downloads window associated with Safari. > > He did come back and clarify. It did not quite come back and clarify because it was under a slight but normally harmless misapprehension. What passes for its brain contains many of these things, but they are mostly not so bad that they cause the bike this creature rides through life to crash. It wobbles along quite well in many ways. > He said he wasn't talking about something > app-specific, It said "did not know it was app related, just thought there is this one downloads window that hides somewhere on the machine and is called out by all sorts of apps when downloading stuff, very useful with the brilliant magnifier icon that clicking gets you to view where the file as been downloaded - it is selected in Finder directory window." It now knows better and more accurately what is happening. For the moment. > he wanted the place where all his downloads are saved. > Which sounds like a description of the Downloads folder. It wanted what Ian Gregory the Great supplied. It wanted also, to be fair, what nospam *nearly* supplied, namely "Option Command L". There is a lesson here, it need not be just a bunch of beings with nothing better to do than prattle on aimlessly: When giving keyboard commands use representations that look as much like the keys as possible, the name of the key concerned is "L" not "l". Look at the average Mac keyboard if you don't believe me. The key is *a different object* to the letter and so is its name different to the letter it causes to be printed. -- dorayme |