firefox question re mpg download disposal

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Jan 2 04:20:18 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 21:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I just tried to download the video of the hearing where the SCO case 
> against DC was dismissed, a 56meg mpg download.  The menu said it was 
> to use vlc to play it.  On the first download, vlc never started, and 
> it is installed and works just fine.
> 
> On the second download, I let it finish too, but changed it to save to 
> disk in the menu, then went looking for the file, wasn't to be found 
> by an updatedb+locate.
> 
> Third time, I found the growing file in the Cache, and watched it till 
> the dl was finished and that file disappeared out from under vlc as 
> it was supposedly renamed and moved at the end of the download.  
> However, firefox never asked me where to put the file!  So I'm doing 
> another updatedb to see if it was deleted, or if it was just moved 
> someplace.
> 
> IMO, this should warrant a bugzilla entry against firefox 1.0, or has 
> this already been done?  Update, no its not been found, so where the 
> hell does firefox put such stuff, /dev/null?
> 
> FWIW, I just added vlc at the top of the list of mpeg players in the 
> kde prefs, but I've NDI if that will bother firefox.  Can anyone 
> advise me please?
> 

My firefox install stores downloads in the Desktop directory until you
change the preferences via edit - preferences - downloads.  Check that
location as set in your preferences and you will likely find the file.





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