286007 - drag-and-drop downloads go to wrong destination

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Mark McKenna]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050310 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050310 Firefox/1.0+

I have selected 'ask me where to save every file' from the options menu.

When I drag a link from the main window into the download manager, it picks a
destination for me(which is unrelated to any destination I ever selected
previously, as far as I can tell).  It just so happens that I don't have write
access to the folder on the system I am working on; it is one of the
administrators' protected folders.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose Options>Downloads>"Ask me where to save every file"
2. Drag an object from the main window into the downloads window.
3.

Actual Results:  
A "download error" dialog popped up saying I didn't have write access to the
directory it wanted to save to.

Expected Results:  
It should have prompted me for a location to save the file to.

Comment 1

[Michael]

Can you be a bit more specific. If you enter "about:config" into the location
bar and type "download" into the filter. Which pref stores the folder the
download attempted to go to? Can you confirm that downloading normally prompts
for destination.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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