371604 - Starting a download does not make it appear in the download manager

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Andrew January]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Starting any download (clicking on a link, and then clicking either Save or Open in the dialog) does not make it appear in the download manager, nor does it download the file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a link to a file
2. Select either Download or Open
3. Open the download manager
Actual Results:  
The file is not added to the download manager

Expected Results:  
The file is added to the download manager and downloaded

I also got https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371602 at the same time after updating. They may be linked.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Most probably downloads.rdf was corrupted at the same time as localstore.rdf (bug 371602). You should try renaming downloads.rdf from your profile (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile) while Firefox is closed.

If that fixes you up then this bug is a duplicate of bug 358914 - please attach the original downloads.rdf there (provided it doesn't contain anything private).

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

A malformed rdf file shouldn't cause it to not download still.

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Resolving old UNCONFIRMED Download Manager bugs as INCOMPLETE.  If you still see this issue, please reopen.

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