Open Bug 502134 Opened 16 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Selecting a non-writeable directory causes download to fail silently

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Downloads API
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: Dolske, Unassigned)

References

Details

Found in bug 499807, can reproduce on Windows CE / Linux / OS X too. If you select a non-writable location from the filepicker when starting a download, nothing happens after clicking "Ok" in the filepicker. See 499807 for where things go wrong. There should, ideally, be a simple dialog shown saying that we couldn't save the file to the selected location.
dupe of bug 429827?
Maybe? Hard to tell, that bug seems to have mutated to "create the folder if it doesn't exist". That's not going to work here, because you can't create anything when the selected location is read-only. IE, the fix I'd expect for this is just a simple warning to let you know something failed.
This might help with bug 491063...
Blocks: 437784
Severity: normal → S3
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