220207 - I am unable to delete a downloaded file that stalled and I cancelled the download.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Wheeler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

I am unable to delete a downloaded file that stalled and I cancelled the
download.    There is a file left over that is the partial file.  I have to
close Mozilla, including the quickstart portion of the program to be able to
delete the file.  As a note a curiosity, Openoffice has a similar problem.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download a file (may require a file to stall, not sure)
2.  Cancel the download (I waited a long time while downloading Knoppix 3.3)
3.  Try to delete the partial download.

Actual Results:  
I was unable to delete the partial download

Expected Results:  
Released the file once the download was cancelled.

Comment 1

[Aaron McBride]

Works for me.

Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Downloaded 10% of Open office from:
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/openoffice/stable/1.1.1/OOo_1.1.1_Win32Intel_install.zip
Canceled the download.
The partial file vanished from my desktop.

Comment 2

[Jan Vlug]

I experienced a similar problem with firefox 1.0 under windows XP.
While downloading Skype to the desktop, the Norton firewall interrupted the
download somehow. The partially completed download cannot be removed.
Even after rebooting the PC, and in safe mode, the file cannot be deleted. I am
not sure whether this is a finefox or windows problem.
--> Confirmed.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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