This appears to be Windows 7 trying to protect you from unsafe downloads, so it apparently puts the download somewhere else in a temp folder or something Two solutions: Run IE 8 as administrator (right click icon, run as Admin) when you are going to download images from Ancestry OR Add *.ancestry.com to your trusted sites in IE8 Courtney sitnah@cox.net -------------------------------------------------- From: "Tony Knight" <tony@ritter.demon.co.uk> > My normal practice is to approach Ancestry through my browser. I don't use > the merge facility > > In Windows 7 using IE8 I am looking at the 19th Century California Voter > Registers. > > Unlike SAR I do have the Save option, I therefore try to save to my > desktop. > It appears to save, but when I look it is not there. If however I download > to a memory card it is and can be viewed with an image viewer. I have seen > this before with other databases. > > Tony >

OR, use Firefox. I had the same trouble with Vista. IE puts the downloads into a temp hidden directory. Rosemary On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Courtney <sitnah@cox.net> wrote: > This appears to be Windows 7 trying to protect you from unsafe downloads, > so > it apparently puts the download somewhere else in a temp folder or > something > > Two solutions: > > Run IE 8 as administrator (right click icon, run as Admin) when you are > going to download images from Ancestry > > OR > > Add *.ancestry.com to your trusted sites in IE8 > > > Courtney > sitnah@cox.net > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Tony Knight" <tony@ritter.demon.co.uk> > > > My normal practice is to approach Ancestry through my browser. I don't > use > > the merge facility > > > > In Windows 7 using IE8 I am looking at the 19th Century California Voter > > Registers. > > > > Unlike SAR I do have the Save option, I therefore try to save to my > > desktop. > > It appears to save, but when I look it is not there. If however I > download > > to a memory card it is and can be viewed with an image viewer. I have > seen > > this before with other databases. > > > > Tony > > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >