On 8/18/18, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 18/08/2018 5:30 AM: >> Ray_Net wrote: >> >>> This is my idea also .... replacing double-backslash by >>> single-backslash could destroy the pref.js file ... >>> >>> This is what I have in my pref.js file: >>> user_pref("browser.download.dir", >>> "C:\\ADDON\\ADDED\\Mozilla-Suite\\SeaMonkey\\2.0.2"); >>> user_pref("browser.download.lastDir", >>> "C:\\ALLDATA\\RandoEvasion\\INSCRITS"); >> >> If you don't trust it, don't do a global search and replace. Try it with >> the one pref you're interested in and see what happens. If that fixes >> the problem, you can go back and apply the fix throughout the file. >> >> To Mark's question: the backslashes are single in about:config. >> >> From what we've seen so far, the download failed for some reason, >> that's why the OP can't find the file (it's not there). My chief suspect >> at this point is the double backslashes -- if SM tries to save the file >> to a nonexistent directory or an invalid path, it will fail. But then it >> should throw an error to alert the user, even if the setting is "don't >> ask." >> >> I have no expertise in Linux; my remarks refer only to the Windows >> installation. >> > As suggested by others, I looked in about:config and, sure enough, while > looking in prefs.js,I got double slashes, when I looked in about:config, > I got ... > > browser.download.lastDir; user set String > C:\Users\Daniel\Downloads > > Single slashes ... just doesn't work for downloading SeaMonkey from the > SeaMonkey-Project download page. Other downloads, things work fine!!
Can you tell if your anti-virus is blocking it? I uploaded "SeaMonkey Setup 2.49.4.exe" to virustotal & got two hits: https://virustotalcloud.appspot.com/#/file/9a7822a019eb89c71a912c5ca5a08ce9dea9fc536a12c9ae861f528e5a6409c2/detection Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
