281363 - Download Location at bottom of Download Manager dialog out of sync with actual Download Location

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Mike DeAngelo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

My PC has two partitions.  The C: drive has a Windows 2000 install, and the D:
drive has a Win XP install.

I installed Firefox on the recently built WinXP side and copied over the
"Application Data" so that I'd have all my saved passwords, bookmarks, etc.

In WinXP my Desktop is at D:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Desktop.  When I press
the "destination folder" button at the bottom of the Download Dialog it would
bring me to that folder.  However, the downloads themselves are routed to the
old location, the Desktop of on the C: drive for the Win2000 instance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Dual boot a PC with two copies of Windows, one on the C: drive and one on the D:
2. Boot into the C: based instance.  Configure a copy of firefox on the C: based
windows instance.
3. Boot into the D: based instance.  Install firefox and copy over the config
info from Application Data directory.
4. Open Download Manager.  Press the All files downloaded to: button.  It brings
up the folder on the D: drive.
5. Actually download something.

Actual Results:  
The file is placed on the C: drive

Expected Results:  
The file should be placed in the smae location as specified by the "All files
downloaded to:" button.

Comment 1

[Matt Heinrichs]

I am experiencing the same problem.  

In my case, however, I installed WinXP over Win2k, used the same username.

My new desktop folder is named (by XP):

c:\Documents and Settings\machinename.myuserid\Desktop

My old desktop folder is:

c:\Documents and Settings\myuserid\Desktop

The "destination folder" button brings me (correctly) to the new desktop folder.
  All downloaded files, however, are dropped into the old folder.

I can only assume that when downloading it translates "desktop" to mean:

C:\Documents and Settings\currentuser\Desktop

instead of using the actual API call to retrieve the location.

Comment 2

[Matt Heinrichs]

I should add that I also copied over my config info, and I haven't (yet)
verified whether or not the problem occured BEFORE I copied this over or not.

Comment 3

[Matt Heinrichs]

Verified that this only occurs when reusing an old profile - resetting the
download location (e.g. change to a new folder, then back to Desktop) will
correct the problem.

Comment 4

[Mike Maurice]

I have similar results. All .PDF files are downloaded to a temp directory. The file(s) disappear after Firefox is closed. Nothing changes where the files are downloaded to.
I have tried this in safe mode, same results. Windows XP, Firefox 2.0.0.4

I have lost about six weeks of downloads of PDFs maybe others as well.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

You should check default download action for those files in Tools / Preferences /   contents /filetypes (i'm translating from different language so that could differ a bit) and remove them if present, then retry

Comment 6

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

We no longer have this in the UI.