175716 - Download manager will not open. Cannot download anything

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Egon Face]

Download manager does not open under tools - Download Manager.
Cannot download any files. This has been reported elsewhere but not with the
same symptom. Error message is "could not be saved because the source file could
not be read" which I can see in the source code at
http://cvs2.oeone.com/index.cgi/penzilla3/mozglobal/locale/en-US/global/nsWebBrowserPersist.properties?annotate=1.1

To be honest I have downloaded quite a few files over the last months and I have
never bothered to clear out the download managers history but I do have plenty
of hard disk space left - at least 10 Gb so I doubt this is the reason. I have
removed and reinstalled Mozilla. Incidently I get a message about java when I
start up but this has been there for some time and java still works. I am using
build 1.2b 20021016

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

remove components\compreg.dat

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171441 ***

Comment 2

[Wesha]

V.

Comment 3

[Michael Werner]

To enable Downloading, delete 'compreg.dat' in the 'components' Subfolder. Than
restart Mozilla new. Download will now work. Mozilla will create a new .dat-file.

Michael

Comment 4

[Egon Face]

Thanks Michael. Deleting compreg.dat made it WFM. Sorry for the duplicate.