AOL Download Instructions - From Bill Grafflin
When I have an attachment in AOL, the Download
choice is visible at the bottom of the message. I click on that and I can Download
Now or Download Later. I choose Now. It goes to my desktop and automatically
opens when I sign off of AOL. Here's how that all happens.
In AOL 8.0 (and I think 6.0 and 7.0), at the top menu bar there is a choice called
Settings. Open that and choose Preferences. On the Preferences menu under
Organization, there is a Download link. Choose that one. Near the bottom of
the page, there is a "Put files I download in the following directory:" and a
Browse button. I always change that so that my downloaded files are on the Desktop
-- so I can find them.
On the right side of that same menu is "Automatically decompress Zip files:" and
you get three choices: 1) When I download them; 2) When I sign off; and 3) Do not
decompress. I choose the 2nd one, because I won't do anything with them until I get
off AOL. Also on that page is a place to select "Delete Zip files after they
are decompressed." I don't select that, but I do save them to a folder called
Wrestling that I have set up in the Filing Cabinet on AOL.
I think all of this works without Win-Zip being the default decompresser, but I've set
Win-Zip to handle everything.