401314 - files saved through mozilla are not actually saved to my hard drive

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[jeremy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: office

Whenever I right-click save say, a jpg or bmp, when i go to the folder i saved the file in, it's not there, but anything I saved through IE is. This is not limited to just pictures, if i go to the file tab in my browser and click save page, the webpage is not saved, the same goes for music or .exe files

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.right click on file or go to "save as" option
2.click save
3.
Actual Results:  
files are not actually saved to my harddrive or folder locations

Expected Results:  
files should be saved to folder or harddrive

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Did you try deleting the file downloads.rdf in your profile or creating a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Downloads.rdf
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[John Randall]

I had the exact same problem.  Renaming downloads.rdf and letting the system create a new one foxed the problem.

Thanks for the tip.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.