Thomas Garson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:31:35 UTC, Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>It saves to your TMP directory first. >> >>How much space do you have on the drive where your TMP directory is? > > > Typically about 350MB free space. > > Does Mozilla write the entire file to TMP before it gets moved to the > location that was selected for save? > If so, I would consider that to be serious conceptual flaw. > > What happens if a large download is interupted? Older browsers would > leave an incomplete file in the download directory that, many times, > could be completed with WGET. I have had Mozilla freeze near the end > of a 500MB transfer, resulting in the aparant loss of all of the data > already downloaded. Not good. >
I moved the tmp folder to the same drive where I keep my archive/download folder. The freeze of Mozilla on that 500 MiB download was most likely due to running out of space. If you had not killed Mozilla right away, the system would have crashed, in my humble experience as I had tmp on the boot drive. With the tmp folder on the same drive as the download folder, the copy to the download folder is a file pointer fix-up. -- Bill <For all of yours, Father's Day>
