212170 - Saving to disk should save directly to target if temp directory has insufficient space

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69938

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jeff Myers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When using the save to disk function, the file is saved to the temporary folder
first, then moved to the target destination.  When downloading a very large file
which is larger than the free space on the partition which holds the temporary
folder, the file should be saved directly to the target destination.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to download a file larger than the free space on your temporary
folder's drive to a drive where there is sufficient space.

Actual Results:  
The download will consume all the disk space on the temporary folder's drive,
then fail.

Expected Results:  
The browser should have detected that there was insufficient space and opted to
save the file directly to the target instead of the temporary directory.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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

Comment 2

[benc]

Which command are we talking about?

I'm going to assume you meant "save target link as...", because that would cause
a network event and probably trigger download manager.

"Save page as", should read out of cache, and presumably not write to local temp
space.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.