On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:25:58 -0400, Jorge Fábregas <fabregasj@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 20 January 2005 3:13 pm, Kam Leo wrote: > > One of the problems in the past was that Download Manager > > would download a file into the temp directory and then copy > > the file to the destination folder > > I'm wondering what's behind this. What is the logic reason for downloading > first to /tmp and then move it to desired location? I may have been wrong about that. I'm now not seeing it actually downloading anything (except the HTTP response headers) until after you pick the pathname. I thought, perhaps mistakenly, that before it would actually start downloading; getting a head start. > location but putting a suffic ".part" or something like that to let you know > it is not done. The .part suffix is to try to keep people or applications from attempting to open and use the file before it has been completely downloaded. -- Deron Meranda
