179780 - Using the windows temp directory instead of the manually entered destination drive causes downloads to abort due to lacking space

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69938

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Stefan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523

The download manager stores the downloaded file in the windows temp dir first
even if there was entered a different destination location.
This causes problems when there is little space left on the C: drive the
windows, while trying to download a large file to another drive with ample free
space.
Can you please store the data directly at the user-entered location INSTEAD of
temp-storing on %temp%.
Thank you.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Leave only 30Megs of space free on drive C that contains C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
2. Try to download a file larger than 30 Megs to F:\download\... while F: has
plenty of space free.
3. The download stops when drive C is full.

Actual Results:  
Download got aborted by Mozilla

Expected Results:  
Please store the data directly at the user-entered location INSTEAD of
temp-storing on %temp%.

I rated the bug as major because it can make Mozilla unusable for downloading
larger pieces of software, even if there is sufficient of disk space on the client.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69938 ***

Comment 2

[Wesha]

v.