I do the Mac security updates, etc. I don’t know if that could be the cause.
Until recently, a control-click on a web photo would give me the option to save it anywhere. Now when I do so, it only allows me to save it to the desktop (or open it in another tab, etc.)
Any ideas about that? Anyone else notice the change? Can I change the settings to get it back the old way. It’s inconvenient to rename the photo and stick it in a different folder.
Bonus question. I think this was the result of another software update, but suddenly in Safari a bunch of links I had deleted from the Bookmarks Bar were back, and so were some of the cheesy bookmark folders in the Bookmarks Menu (“Entertainment,” etc.).
I assume you’re using Safari (since you mentioned it in the bonus question), and if so, the download location is a preference that can be set in ‘Safari/Preferences/General’. I just checked it out, and you can set the location to save downloaded files, and then that is the option you get when you control-click (instead of ‘Save Image to the Desktop’, you get ‘Save Image to X’, where X=the target folder you set up.
This happened to me with the recent 10.3.9 update - just delete them from your book marks bar (edit bookmarks by hitting the bookmark icon on the bookmarks bar or by selecting Show All Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu).
As to your main question… I’m not sure if the functionality has changed, but a quick scan through the changes Dave Hyatt’s (Safari developer) blog (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_04.html) brings up the following:
When saving links to the desktop from the context menu, you can hold down Option (alt) to change the menu item so that you can pick a location.