302428 - cannot open any files in deer park due to safari downloads folder as default location

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[knowledgist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

in attempting to open a file of any extension (i've tried *.rm, *.pdf, and *.wma
thus far), deer park simply won't let me, as a dialog box comes up saying
"/users/username/library/safari/downloads/filename.ext could not be saved,
because an unknown error occurred. try saving to a different location."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. find a file to be opened
2. click on it
3. choose the proper application to open it
4. presto

Actual Results:  
a dialog box comes up saying
"/users/username/library/safari/downloads/filename.ext could not be saved,
because an unknown error occurred. try saving to a different location."

Expected Results:  
opened the file

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not a file networking issue.  Over to file handling; Josh, do you have any idea
what's up here?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

fwiw, as far as it goes we get the default download location from the operating
system (via internet config).  So sounds like this particular install of OSX is
just misconfigured....

Comment 3

[knowledgist]

(In reply to comment #2)
> fwiw, as far as it goes we get the default download location from the operating
> system (via internet config).  So sounds like this particular install of OSX is
> just misconfigured....

i reconfigured my version of OSX so that the downloads go somewhere else, and
the same thing happened. except this time, the dialog box displayed the new file
path.

Comment 4

[Josh Aas]

Just to be clear, by open you mean that you found a file on a web page, clicked
on the link, and in the save file dialog you tried to open it with an
appliction? If that is the case, then I can't repro.

Any chance you have a UFS file system and not HFS? We don't support running on
UFS on Mac OS X iirc. Just a wild guess.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Huh...  Interesting....  josh or Simon, any idea what could be up here?

Comment 6

[knowledgist]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Just to be clear, by open you mean that you found a file on a web page, 
> clicked on the link, and in the save file dialog you tried to open it with an
> appliction? 

precisely.


> If that is the case, then I can't repro.

without getting too into it, why not? it seems like it might be a problem worth
fixing.

 
> Any chance you have a UFS file system and not HFS? We don't support running on
> UFS on Mac OS X iirc. Just a wild guess.

after doing some research online, i'm pretty sure i have an HFS system, but i'm
not 100% on it. could you tell me how to be sure?

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Sound like a permissions issue. knowledgist: go into the Terminal, cd to
~/Library/Safari, and do an ls -l.

How did you create this folder?

Comment 8

[Josh Aas]

If you had a UFS file system you would probably know, since you'd have had to go
out of your way to select it when you installed Mac OS X. Plz do what Simon
asked, though if that folder works for Safari it should work for us,
permissions-wise.

Comment 9

[knowledgist]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Sound like a permissions issue. knowledgist: go into the Terminal, cd to
> ~/Library/Safari, and do an ls -l.

not to be a dork, but i (1.) have very little idea what you're talking about,
and (2.) have no idea how to do what you're suggesting.
 
> How did you create this folder?

if you're talking about the original safari downloads folder, it was already
created for me when the computer came out of the box.

if you're talking about the new folder that has the same problem, i just went
into my users folder and created it. then i assigned that folder to be the
download location in safari, since i can't set a default download location in
firefox or deer park.

Comment 10

[u88484]

Removing request to block 1.5 since the 1.5flags are not being used anymore and
requesting to block 1.8b4.

Comment 11

[Josh Aas]

knowledgist: Here are some more clear instructions.

1. You have an application called "Terminal" on your machine, in the Utilities
folder that is in your Applications folder. Open it.
2. When you've opened it, it should have opened 1 window. Type the following two
lines into the window, where "$" represents the prompt, not something you
actually type, and <return> represents hitting the "return" key:

$ cd ~/Library/Safari<return>
$ ls -l > ~/Desktop/debug_output.txt<return>

3. A new file has been created on your desktop, called "debug_output.txt" -
please attach that file to this bug.

Comment 12

[knowledgist]

Attachment: my debug output after doing and ls -l

Comment 13

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

WFM on recent Firefox trunk and branch builds