Closed Bug 279702 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Unfinished exe file cannot be deleted when cancel a download to Windows Desktop

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

1.7 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 262683

People

(Reporter: fishywang, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Set the default download directory to Desktop, and download a exe file, and then
cancel it and remove the download. The unfinished file remain on desktop and
cannot be deleted, the dialog is as below:

Error Deleting File or Folder
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Cannot delete IPQQ2004II_skycn: It is being used by another person or program.

Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.
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OK   
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And i can only delete it in Safe Mode.

Reproducible: Always

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262683 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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