272845 - Download manager attempts to access the A drive

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 142664

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Stephen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Turboviper/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Turboviper/0.10.1

Whenever I use Firefox to download a file, it attempts to access my A: drive
before putting it on the Desktop (which I specified).  If I change to another
download location, it still wants to access the A: drive before putting it
God-knows-where.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download a file, or even open the Download manager (Ctrl-J)


Actual Results:  
An error box labeled "firefox.exe - No Disk" opens.  The error says:
"There is no disk in the drive.  Please insert a disk into drive A:."
I then hit Continue.  Sometimes this will happen a second time and I will hit
Continue again.  After that, it will go on to save the file to either the
Desktop or some really obscure default location *that I didn't specify*.  If I
hit Ctrl-J, it will then open the Download Manager, as expected.

Expected Results:  
I think the software should give up this unhealthy obsession with my A: drive
completely.  I have never tried to download anything to my A: drive and I don't
intend to start. 

Win 2K is installed on the D: drive, but there is a C:
I used Firebird previous to this, and this was NOT a problem

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

bug 142664 explains a workaround (or simply delete the downloads.rdf file in
your  profile with closed FF, you will lost your download history)

 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142664 ***