# Downloading posted files? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 22, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800 "2003-01-22T15:29:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![biscuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@biscuit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/biscuit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800/1 "2003-01-22T15:29:54Z")
I don’t seem to be able to download any of the file people have posted on the forum. I click the link and I just get a PHP file on my desktop. Now is probably a good time to admit I’m using a Mac. Should this make any difference? Cheers, Biscuit. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800/2 "2003-01-23T15:50:16Z")
what file type you are downloading? cause if you download a jpg, you shouldnt get a php. i know in windows, you can right click on the link and ‘save target as’ but im not sure about mac. :hangover: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800/3 "2003-01-23T16:16:04Z")
The file I tried to download should have been an FLA. It was a flie someone included in their post. I tried the Mac equivillent of right-click but no joy. Oh well I suppose it’s just one of those things, it just means If someone wants to show me a solution by example I’m gonna have to get them to explain it longhand. Cheers for the reply anyway!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800/4 "2003-02-12T23:12:43Z")
i’m having the same problem, from mac, both in os9 and osX– instead of seeing ‘flashfile.fla’ i get a browser error msg saying that it’s an unknown filetype with the name ‘attachment.php’, which is what gets saved on my hd. this shouldn’t be a mac vs. pc problem, but who knows? help us, o godz of kirupa! :goatee: mojo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800/5 "2003-02-12T23:20:52Z")
I had the same problem so I went out and bought a PC! Mac is Wack! Well not really, I never had a mac I was just playin, I love PC! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800/6 "2003-02-12T23:23:02Z")
the attachment.php file is the flash file. Just rename it after download and open it from flash. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/downloading-posted-files/11800/7 "2003-02-13T08:22:33Z")
Crikey, I forgot I posted this question. Cheers Senocular. At last with OSX we can use file extentions!!:A+: