295384 - Files saved to desktop, not user-selected location

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 284089

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Rishi Maharaj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523 Firefox/1.0+

Firefox downloads all files to the Desktop (the default location), not the
location specified in Tools -> Options -> Downloads.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set "Save all files to this folder" to something other than the default.
2. Download a file.

Actual Results:  
File is downloaded to desktop/default.

Expected Results:  
File is downloaded to user-set location.

This a regression on the trunk.

Comment 1

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524
Firefox/1.0+

WFM, whatever caused the regression must have been fixed.  I created a folder
called test, selected it in the options, and then went and downloaded Network
Notepad+ installer.  It went into folder test, and not to the Desktop.

<-WFM

Comment 2

[Rishi Maharaj]

Now using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+, latest Pacifica build, I can still reproduce it. :/

Comment 3

[Wayne Woods]

Reopening. This bug is confirmed for in Windows XP using the 20050524 (Deer
Park) build, using a brand new profile.

By default, it's set to download to the desktop. I tried this and it worked
fine, using
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.installer.exe
as the download file.

Then I went to options and selected "My Documents" as the folder. I cleaned up
any residual download garbage from the dekstop and tried to download the link
again. The download manager said it was being downloaded to the correct location
("My Documents"), but in fact it was being saved to the desktop again.

I then tried to make it ask me where to save each file, but that didn't work
either. It had become locked on the desktop.

Tristor, try switching the download location several times and see if it still
works each time. This bug definitely exists.

Comment 4

[Tristor]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reopening. This bug is confirmed for in Windows XP using the 20050524 (Deer
> Park) build, using a brand new profile.
> 
> By default, it's set to download to the desktop. I tried this and it worked
> fine, using
>
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.installer.exe
> as the download file.
> 
> Then I went to options and selected "My Documents" as the folder. I cleaned up
> any residual download garbage from the dekstop and tried to download the link
> again. The download manager said it was being downloaded to the correct location
> ("My Documents"), but in fact it was being saved to the desktop again.
> 
> I then tried to make it ask me where to save each file, but that didn't work
> either. It had become locked on the desktop.
> 
> Tristor, try switching the download location several times and see if it still
> works each time. This bug definitely exists.
> 
> 

Hmmz, I confirmed that the file was indeed in a different location than the
desktop.  I switched from having it ask everytime to doing it at the 'test'
folder.  I guess it doesn't reproduce 100% of the time.

Comment 5

[PikeUK]

This could be a dupe of Bug 284089.

Comment 6

[Wayne Woods]

That definitely sounds right. That bug has a patch, so hopefully it'll be fixed
soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284089 ***