228558 - Download saved outside home folder fails

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Loren Rosen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

On MacOS X 10.1.5 downloads saved outside the home folder (directory) fail with
a mysterious error message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set preferences to ask you what to do with a downloaded file
2. click on a link to download a file
3. the "Mozilla does not know how to handle a file of this type" dialog appears.
Select "Save it to disk" and click "okay"
4. another dialog appears. Select some target folder outside the home folder,
and click okay



Actual Results:  
the file is downloaded, and then after it is complete, an error dialog box
appears which says:
File "suchnsuch" could not be saved, because an unknown error occurred.
Sorry about that.

Expected Results:  
downloaded and saved the file in the requested place

This is on MacOS 10.1.5. While this bug isn't as bad as the "lose all your
bookmarks" bug, like that bug it's been around for months without getting fixed,
and is giving Mozilla a bad reputation on this platform. Granted most MacOS
users are now using 10.2 or 10.3, but I'm sure there are plenty still running 10.1.

Note that there appear to be some related bugs, having to do with being unable
to find the helper application, but this bug occurs when specifically saving the
file.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.