firefox question re mpg download disposal

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 01 January 2005 23:20, Jeff Vian wrote:
>On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 21:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> I just tried to download the video of the hearing where the SCO
>> case against DC was dismissed, a 56meg mpg download.  The menu
>> said it was to use vlc to play it.  On the first download, vlc
>> never started, and it is installed and works just fine.
>>
>> On the second download, I let it finish too, but changed it to
>> save to disk in the menu, then went looking for the file, wasn't
>> to be found by an updatedb+locate.
>>
>> Third time, I found the growing file in the Cache, and watched it
>> till the dl was finished and that file disappeared out from under
>> vlc as it was supposedly renamed and moved at the end of the
>> download. However, firefox never asked me where to put the file! 
>> So I'm doing another updatedb to see if it was deleted, or if it
>> was just moved someplace.
>>
>> IMO, this should warrant a bugzilla entry against firefox 1.0, or
>> has this already been done?  Update, no its not been found, so
>> where the hell does firefox put such stuff, /dev/null?
>>
>> FWIW, I just added vlc at the top of the list of mpeg players in
>> the kde prefs, but I've NDI if that will bother firefox.  Can
>> anyone advise me please?
>
>My firefox install stores downloads in the Desktop directory until
> you change the preferences via edit - preferences - downloads. 
> Check that location as set in your preferences and you will likely
> find the file.

Its never been set to do that, I always set the ask me where button.  
I've got enough stuff laying around in /root, like a complete kde 
install.  I have directories I maintain for the various file formats 
although I've never dedicated one to .mpg's yet, no great need as I 
don't pie-rat those sort of things.

Thanks Jeff, and have a better 2005.

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