On Saturday 01 January 2005 23:20, Jeff Vian wrote: >On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 21:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I just tried to download the video of the hearing where the SCO >> case against DC was dismissed, a 56meg mpg download. The menu >> said it was to use vlc to play it. On the first download, vlc >> never started, and it is installed and works just fine. >> >> On the second download, I let it finish too, but changed it to >> save to disk in the menu, then went looking for the file, wasn't >> to be found by an updatedb+locate. >> >> Third time, I found the growing file in the Cache, and watched it >> till the dl was finished and that file disappeared out from under >> vlc as it was supposedly renamed and moved at the end of the >> download. However, firefox never asked me where to put the file! >> So I'm doing another updatedb to see if it was deleted, or if it >> was just moved someplace. >> >> IMO, this should warrant a bugzilla entry against firefox 1.0, or >> has this already been done? Update, no its not been found, so >> where the hell does firefox put such stuff, /dev/null? >> >> FWIW, I just added vlc at the top of the list of mpeg players in >> the kde prefs, but I've NDI if that will bother firefox. Can >> anyone advise me please? > >My firefox install stores downloads in the Desktop directory until > you change the preferences via edit - preferences - downloads. > Check that location as set in your preferences and you will likely > find the file. Its never been set to do that, I always set the ask me where button. I've got enough stuff laying around in /root, like a complete kde install. I have directories I maintain for the various file formats although I've never dedicated one to .mpg's yet, no great need as I don't pie-rat those sort of things. Thanks Jeff, and have a better 2005. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
