216400 - Download manager uses temporary storage before storing, and may overflow temporary storage disk

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69938

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Daniel Taupin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Instead of directly storing any downloaded file ate the place specified by the
user (e.g. d:/tmp) the Download manager first stores it in the Windows temporary
directory, namely c:/windows/temp or somewhere else in disk C:

 If the downloaded file is big, and destinated to a disk with a lot of storage,
downloading overfills the C: disk, and this may cause a crash (case of a 100
Mbyte download destinated to disk D: with 1 Gigabyte free, while C: only has 50
Mbyte available).

 Suggestion: provide a means of choosing the temporary disk, or download
directly in the place specified by the user.

NB: happens since 1.4

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to download a file of 100 Mbyte
2. specify a disk with 1 Gigabyte free, not c: 
3. have C: with less space available than the size of the requested download.

Actual Results:  

Available space in C: diminuished until the system complained about disk C:
overloaded.

Expected Results:  
Store directly into the requested directory instead of making a temporary copy
and moving it. Alternately, provide a means of selecting temporary down load
storage.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before you file a bug. (very easy to find)


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

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.