On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 6:47 PM Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 14, 2020, at 6:10 PM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:44 PM Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> Does your browser give you the option when contextually-clicking (right-click, control-click, whatever your system does) and give you a choice of “open file location”? The major browsers for other platforms do this. > >> > > You bet it does - - - - but that's the version that gets stored in /tmp . > > > > I find, when I'm grabbing lots of research papers anyway, that its > > easier to just ask for each on to be opened in Okular, my presently > > preferred pdf environment, and then grab the whole bunch of pdfs and > > save them using file and directory tools. > > This means that I can save say 50 files in under a minute. If I save > > each one the 'save as' mechanism in okular makes me sort through my > > folder list (think 6 to 12 levels deep) for each save and that's > > tedious. > > > > The address that I want is the address where the file is stored - - - > > its 'home' per se not the address in /tmp , > > > > I've lost too many pdfs/files because they weren't saved permanently > > (imo /tmp is not permanent storage!). > > > > Thanks for the ideas!! > > > > Regards > > > > None of the programs I have used (on other platforms — which, by the way, I don’t think you’ve said what programs you are using, what build, etc.) give me the temp location of a file that is saved. > > Sorry - - - - I'm NOT looking for the temporary storage location. I would like an easy way to grab the 'permanent storage location'. Regards