Closed Bug 569208 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

[DATALOSS] Firefox kills downloaded data when restarted after crash

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 435799

People

(Reporter: timwi, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 See STR Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download a huge file 2. In the middle of the download, simulate a Firefox crash (e.g. kill using Task Manager) 3. Delete the 0-byte files and rename the partial downloads by removing the ".part" extension 4. Run Firefox again. Actual Results: Downloaded files are overwritten with 0-byte files, losing all the data downloaded. Expected Results: At the VERY LEAST, leave the downloaded data alone! Even better, resume the download.
Just tried it again and apparently Step 3 is not even necessary. It deletes/overwrites the files even if they’re in their original state with the .part file still called ".part".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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