On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:45:46 -0500, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Sorry, I couldn't help you. Did you have sufficient free space in both directories? And a good New Year to you too!
