Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > > Mama Cass wrote: > ------------snip------------ > >>In this case it most definitely should be moved/saved directly to the >>location that the end user chooses, and not left in the Cache until the >>download be complete. >> >>Mama Cass >> > > Want to ask a really dumb question with respect to the comment above. (I > know being a dumb question hasn't stopped me before.<grin>) > > Wouldn't moving a file's location as its being downloaded, Doesn't that > create the possibility of file corruption? > > Wouldn't that be sort of like trying to take a Car's Transmission out > while your driving it down the road at 55 mph? > > The cache file /folder in Communicator 4.X is easy enough to become > corrupted because its contantly changing each time you add something to > it by viewing HTM Mail / or a Web page. Having the download (update to > another Hard drive or another directory on the same Hard drive would > make it corrupt easier. > > BTW: IN 4.7 you can got to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Cache and > choose another location (possibly another hard drive even to write the > cache to. > >
Well. In the Windows world maybe. A file's name info is just meta-data for particular data block(s). When you move a file across the same partition, the actual data blocks don't move. Just the meta-data record "moves" from one "directory" to another. (I know that Windows is one exception. It won't let you move a file while it's opened. ) For example, on a Linux box. Take some kind log file that is being written to and rename it. tail the new file and the data will be written to the new file. Or ... start downloading from an HTTP server and while you're downloading from it, delete the file on the server. The download still continues. The opened file handle is not associated with the file's meta-data.
