-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I believe the problem is that until the download is complete, Mozilla stores the partially downloaded file in /tmp THEN transfers the finished download to the selected location. If you have a large '/' directory and/or have setup /tmp on its own partition that is large enough, this isn't a problem but for me and many others we break our system down into more partitions than the default setup (good idea in general) and either don't make '/' unreasonably large, or more ridiculous, give /tmp its own partition that is larger than it should need to be.
I have my system broken down into the following partitions: /boot / /var /tmp /usr /usr/local /home My /tmp is not monstrously huge, nor is my / or /var. They are reasonably sized to cover virtually all contingencies except for the case with /tmp (apparently) with regard to ONE situation: stupid apps that temporarily store partial/in process downloads in /tmp which is then transfered to a proper location AFTER download is complete. My /tmp is 800 MB. This should be more than large enough but given the aforementioned behavior, it can easily become too small by a gig or more (ridiculous!). This problem comes up with winex (and wine?) too. When you do a game install, wine loads the partial/in process install in /tmp and then transfers it to your selected final destination. I would keep getting stymied by error messages popping up when I was trying to install certain (large) games telling me there wasn't enough disk space - but I have an 80 gig hdd and have LOTS of space available in the directory areas where I am wanting to install the game. The problem turned out to be /tmp. Of course, if you simply have a '/' instead of breaking /tmp out on its own AND your '/' is huge, then no problem. Thing is, if I select a download/install location, regardless of app, I want the download/install location to be the end-all be-all. If the download is in process or terminated before completing, I want the partial download to reside in the selected download location. If I am installing a game/app via wine, I want the [EMAIL PROTECTED] game/app to go entirely to the install location during the installation process and when it is complete. It is ridiculous that one should have to have gigs of space just for /tmp to get past those FEW occassions when you are downloading a huge file (iso images, for instance) or installing a large game/app. This isn't daily activity and having to set aside hdd space just to cover such contingencies is crazy and wasteful. praedor On Friday 25 July 2003 07:17 pm, charlie wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:01 am, Pierre Fortin wholly or partly mentioned :- > > > If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm > > too pissed to find it... > > I am uncertain if I understand your problem Pierre but I am using > Mozilla-1.3-1mdk and have done in :- Edit/Preferences/Downloads enabled > Open download manager. Is that what you want? That way every time that I > download anything I have choice of any partition and directory. Select it > and leave it do its work. > > It is done manually of course, Download Manager does choose the last > partition or directory that I downloaded into as default but just a quick > click and another is selected. Give the file or image it any name that you > choose with or without the file extension, thus allowing you to better find > it if you really do forget where you placed it. > > HTH > > Charlie. - -- Key fingerprint = D6F9 8682 2257 2871 10C6 DB92 6F50 8BBA B100 EB15 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Ioqcb1CLurEA6xURAm/RAKDU/0efzYd+z7QO4T+ksQjWuiXK3QCeIK65 brRU8GaIKUf9uS+gbt2diQ0= =NmSS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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