287839 - Files will not download. No Disk error message appears.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153377

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[David Braxton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When downloading files, No Disk error message appears. "There is no disk in the
drive. Please insert a disk into the drive ...\device\harddisk3\DR8."  Clicking
The Cancel, Try Again, and Continue buttons in the error box do not resolve the
issue as the error message keeps reappearing. A check of the task manager
reveals that another Firefox has started and that both are not responding. It
then takes several attempts to shut down the programs. IE works fine. I am No
matter what 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Click to download any downloadable file
3. Watch the No Disk error box appear.
4. Get frustrated
5. Start IE (pray that there are no new security risks)
6. Download the file successfully. 
7. Ponder
8. Wonder why your computer can't do it.

Actual Results:  
It works with IE

Expected Results:  
When I tried to download the file, it should have downloaded it the way it used to.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Could this be a HD error? The "Please insert a disk into the drive
...\device\harddisk3\DR8." error is suspicious as it thinks your HD is removable
for some reason, and the only times I've ever seen that was when the HD was
approaching death.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Workaround: Delete the file "downloads.rdf" in your FF profile. The drive is a
removable drive like a zip drive/usb stick etc.

Bug is known, see bug 142664 and more general bug 153377.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153377 ***