Help!
I’ve got a large number of PDFs to download. Unfortunately, when I click the link, Acrobat Reader opens the damn file. I want to reset IE so that when I click the link, it asks the question “Open or Save As”. Then I can click Save As, check the “always do this” checkbox and get moving. Any help?
Try right clicking on the links.
Thanks for the tip. That’s what I’m doing now and believe it or not, I’ve got so many to download that I’d rather not have to do that. I’m hoping to get where a left-click pulls up the save as dialog.
In Adobe Reader, go to Edit - Preferences - General. Select the Options tab, and then Unclick “Display .PDF in Browser”
After you do that, IE will ask you if you want to save the file. Note that the next time you open Reader, it will ask you if you want to fix the fact that it isn’t configured to open in the browser - unclick “Ask every time” and then click “No.”
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I tried that as well. Now it simply opens the file in a Reader window instead of in the browser. I still don’t get the question “Open or Save As?”
As further information that probably relevant, I’m sure that ages okay, I probably selected “Open” and checked the “Do this every time” dialog. I know there are tools to reset all of your IE setting to default, but I’d rather not do that since I’ve got a fair amount of stuff customized.
If you’ve got so many to download that you don’t want to click on them, you might be better off with a download manager like GetRight instead of a browser. You can just paste in the URLs and have it download them all. It might take a little longer to set up (creating a list of URLs from the links, etc.) but then will handle the downloads unattended.
Well, you know, when I initially tested this out a few minutes ago, I also unchecked “Enable third party extensions” in the Advanced tab of INternet Options. I didn’t turn it back on - but it didn’t work after I tried it, so I went into Reader and found the tip I just gave you.
Maybe the two things combined are actually the solution? (You’ll have to restart IE after selecting that option to get it to take place.)
That’s a setting I can’t understand. First, I can’t imagine why anyone would prefer that PDFs be displayed in the browser window. On top of that, they make it so difficult to turn that feature off, and after you turn it off, keep asking whether you really meant to. In Firefox, it’s fairly easy - you just look at the list of plug-ins and uncheck the Adobe Reader one.
IE making it hard to turn off PDF display reminds me of how Outlook “warns” me when I convert a message to plain text when replying - it should warn me if I’m trying to send HTML.
Well, this might not be a solution you’re interested in, but it’s very easy to do what you want to do if you’re using the Firefox browser. If you’ve got as many as you say, it might be worth spending a few minutes installing Firefox. I also think that micco’s suggestion of a download manager is a good one.
Thanks for all of the help guys. We ended up brute-forcing it with a number of people. Part of the problem (not originally stated) was that we were trying to download the PDFs into a mirrored virtual folder structure not the actual structure, thus the site stripping tools we had weren’t working for us.
I appreciate all of the assistance though. If I do ever figure out how to go back and reset the Open or Save As for a given doc type, I’ll be sure to post the information.
It is much easier to use a download manager for such things.
I personally recommend this combination Flashget + Firefox + Flashgot (Firefox Extension).
Having those installed, all you have to do is right click any where in the page, choose Flash got all, or something similiar. Flashget then will present you with a quite easy-to-use interface.
I use Leechget. I’m not sure how accurate they are, but i’ve read reports that FlashGet comes with a bunch of adware/spyware.
FlashGet is definitely adware. The unregistered version displays banner ads.
But spyware? Dunno. I do know that several anti-spyware programs pick up Flashget’s adware components, and if they are removed, Flashget doesn’t work correctly anymore.
Funny, I’ve got the exact opposite problem. I can’t get Acrobat or IE to STOP asking me if I want to open or save. We have an intranet site at work with many reference documents in PDF format, and it is a pain to constantly have to click the “Open” button in the dialog every time. I know the file is safe, I just want to click and have the file open.
Unchecking the “Always ask for files of this type” checkbox in the dialog that pops up when I click the link doesn’t work, and neither does checking the “Open in browser window” option in Acrobat preferences. I can check it but the next time I look, it’s unchecked again.