282304 - download manager 'versions' files by incrementing a number in the filename

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231048

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[seth arnold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)

Downloading a file such as http://sarnold.org/1.zip several times will cause the
download manager to "helpfully" increment the '1' to '2'; doing so again will
increment it to '3', and so forth. Firefox will always pick the first version
number to putz with.

My filenames aren't versioned on a whim -- so firefox renaming them for me is
_very_ unpleasant. If there is a possible collision, I would much rather firefox
append a unique number to the _end_ of the filename rather than destroy a
perfectly good number in the middle of the filename.

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type http://sarnold.org/1.zip into the URL bar
2. type http://sarnold.org/1.zip into the URL bar
3. type http://sarnold.org/1.zip into the URL bar
Actual Results:  
ls -l ~/1* # or wherever your downloads appear .. note how there are several
files, only one of which matches "1.zip*".


Expected Results:  
download 1.zip, 1.zip.1, 1.zip.2, etc.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 231048 "download manager poorly renames existing files with number suffix"

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231048 ***