On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:04:28 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2015 12:46:34 Bret Busby wrote: > > On 13/04/2015, Petter Adsen <pet...@synth.no> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > I do not know if this will solve your problem, but I found a > > > manual for what I believe is your machine on Acer's website, and > > > put it on my Dropbox account for you: > > > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/09lfo01vnl9z9d7/UM_asE5-571_531_551_521_51 > > >1_EN_Win8.1_v2.pdf?dl=0 > > > > For those of us who would like to follow along and possoible learn > something, but who do NOT have a dropbox account for one reason or > the other, chief among them some copyright grabbing language in the > T.O.S., I would remind you that dropboxes policy now is to show a > sign in or join panel on top of any visible content for about 2 > seconds, then clearing the screen and reloading the page which takes > 3 or 4 seconds.
I just copied that link myself and opened it in Firefox. A "sign in or log on" box was displayed, which I closed without doing either (click on the "X"), and then got a page containing the name of the file with a button marked "Download". I clicked the button, and got a menu with the choices "direct download", and "download to my Dropbox". Clicking the first downloaded the pdf in the normal fashion. What, apart from using JavaScript (which I agree is not desirable), is problematic? > IOW, we cannot see whats at the link. I could. > Is there not another service that is more "friendly" to the use its > used for? Not that many that has Linux clients, unfortunately. I know of only two - Google Drive (unofficial client only, and I dislike Google), and CloudMe (where I haven't got any free space right now). I could have posted the original link, but since I had to download a zip and unpack it to see if the manual contained any information on removing the battery in the first place, I just posted the link to the pdf itself as that seemed simpler. I was honestly just trying to help the OP in a way that was easy for us both, and since my mother manages to download the files I put on Dropbox for her, I just assumed it would be an acceptable solution. Anyway, it's all academic now, as I've emailed the pdf to Bret. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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