Where do downloads go ... continued

Hello all!

A while ago, there was a discussion about where downloads go but I can't find it (not the download ...... ...... the discussion ...... ...... ). That doesn't matter since it would probably be closed by now.

I claimed that a download first goes to one of the folders in Content.IE5 and that I, when downloading larger files, had seen a "copy - from - to" window. Someone accused me of having a slow computer but sometimes that is good because yesterday, I downloaded a large file (~90 MB) and caught it on a screenshot (attached).

We also discussed what would happen if in the TIF settings, maximum disk space was set to less than the file size. I have my setting at a few MB and it was ignored.

Christer

 

well, we can discuss it again!

Yes, downloads go to the tem internet files dir and then get moved to the selected "save as" location. larhge files always get downloaded to the tif dir and moved. I too see the 'copying" prompt and my comp is not slow, it's a p4 3.06GHz w/ HT and plenty of ram.

I believe rt click "save target as" may have different way of using the tif dir, but I have not researched that.

Even zip files (using winzip w/ browser plugin) wiil always go to the tif dir and then to the user's selected working dir for zip downloads.

In win98 days, if one accidentally deleted a download one could always find the original in the tif dir.

And I have never seen any downloads fail to complete when the tif dir limit was set to a number smaller than the size of a download file.

 

from MS:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;260897

In some cases, files that are downloaded from Web sites may remain in your Temporary Internet Files folder but are not visible in Windows Explorer after you follow these steps. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301057/EN-US/

 

To regain the ability to Select where downloads go you'll have to edit file type via Win Explorer->Tools->File Type tab

See the attached pic. If the "confirm" box is checked, the download will prompt you so that you can select the folder to download too...

 

Jim,
it's my bad, I should have been clearer!

I downloaded "ubcd-basic.zip" and "ubcd-basic.exe" from PlanetMirror and chose "Save as ..." to D:\Installation\BootCD.

In the screenshot, the file "ubcd-basic[1].zip" is copied from a temporary folder to the destination folder "BootCD ". (The file name differs by [1] but I don't know why. It is possibly there for Windows to keep track of the maximum number (2) of allowed parallel downloads.)

So, it's not a web update with a temporary extract location but a file download to the local hard disk.

Christer

 

The easier way to do this is to start a download of a large file and remove the checkmark next to "close this ....when download completes ".

 

PlanetMirror was excruciatingly slow, it took over twenty minutes for a download that should take less than two minutes. You get spoiled by broadband but the upgrade we are getting from 10 Mb/s to 100 Mb/s would not help in a situation like this. (Kind of like driving a Lamborghini in rush hour traffic ...... ...... !)

Christer