Any idea why it downloads and moves instead of just downloading into
the location you specify? Seems like a waste of space and time,
especially for large files. Disk space is cheap these days, but it
must be done for some reason.
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:53:00 -0500, Michael Kaply
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Actually, what Mozilla does is download the file to your TEMP directory.
>Then when it is done with the download it MOVEs it to the new name.
>
>I don't believe it is pulling it from the cache.
>
>Mike Kaply
>IBM
>
>Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>
>> A couple of times when I asked for a download, the OS/2 file
>> dialog told me that I already *had* a file of that name in my
>> target directory. When I used the OS/2 file dialog to CHANGE
>> the name of the file-as-stored (for instance, by appending '2'
>> to the name), the Mozilla/2 download completed __quickly__.
>> [I was already holding down <shift> while clicking on the URL.]
>>
>> What I believe happened was that Mozilla looked in its cache
>> for a file of the original name, and just copied to the new
>> name from the Mozilla cache. How, in this kind of a situation,
>> (I believe the site I was trying to download from had *updated*
>> the file since my previous download), can I __force__ Mozilla
>> to do a download to the new name ? Is going into preferences,
>> and clearing the caches, the only way ?
>>
>> mikus (using 2001052506)
>
Chris Hill
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