189334 - Download hangs and uses too much disk space

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69938

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ken Beal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

I just got broadband (yay!) and am downloading ISOs for Linux distributions. 
Two things I've noticed in the past week:

1. Mozilla does not download to the location I tell it to.  Mozilla is installed
on D: (as is the OS, Windows 2000), and I want to download to G:.  It first
saves the 650+MB image on D: (in a user location I believe) and when finished,
copies it to G:.  This means I need twice the free space as I should if it would
save it immediately to G: without first saving it to D:.  This leads to the
second issue:

2. Mozilla becomes unresponsive for minutes at a time while it is copying the
ISO from D: to G:.  I cannot use any other functions of the Download Manager
(like, opening an Explorer window for other files I've downloaded) and the main
Mozilla window hangs as well (so I can't browse).  It doesn't hang the whole
system, so I can still open IE and browse, but I'd rather not.  I think simply
spinning the copy off to another thread would solve this specific issue (but not
having to copy in the first place would be even better).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download an ISO.
2. Watch the free space on D: shrink.
3. Experience a long pause when download gets to 99% while it copies from D: to G:.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla used space on both D: and G: to do the download, and paused for several
minutes while copying.

Expected Results:  
Should have saved directly to G: instead of saving to D: then copying to G:. 
And while copying it should not render the entire Mozilla suite unresponsive.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

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

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.