354284 - Cannot download files, Firefox tries to save in MacHelp.help folder

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Martin Burger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

I cannot download any files (PDF, ZIP, etc). It seems that Firefox tries to save the requested file in a "MacHelp.help" folder, an error message is shown to me.

However, I have no option to change that location. I defined a fixed (existing) directroy in the preferences -> no resolution. And if I choose the option "Ask me where to save every file" no dialog is given to me.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on download link.
Actual Results:  
Error message:

Downloading /Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/ko.lproj/pgs2/cdb_videoprts.html/...

/Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/ko.lproj/pgs2/cdb_videoprts.html/... could not be saved, because an unknown error occured.

Try saving to a different location.

Expected Results:  
Download should start / dialog where to save should be shown.

Comment 1

[Martin Burger]

Ah, I forgot: I removed the downloads.rdf file while Firefox is not running. No help.

Comment 2

[Martin Burger]

Oh, using ktrace I figured out that Firefox uses ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist to get that directory. After removing that file it works now.