firefox not saving to temp

[Yamaneko]

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The folder is read-only, but I thought all Windows folders were read-only? I've never had a problem with saving to the temp folder before. Help?

[crono_logical]

Folders within your user folder shouldn't be read-only to you though. Maybe you changed the permissions by mistake, or it's trying to write to another users folder so firefox is configured incorrectly?

[Dr Unne]

Delete your Windows profile and make a new one.

[Yamaneko]

I did. It didn't work.

Oh, and after the download fails, if I click retry it'll download (all over again) it into the temp directory correctly, but won't auto open the file.

[crono_logical]

Delete your Windows folder and make a new one.

[Yamaneko]

No.

[crono_logical]

Have you tried uninstalling Firefox, deleting all it's settings from your profile, then reinstall it clean?

EDIT: Actually, I think deleting the settings should be sufficient. I'm assuming the permissions on all your folders are correct, if you've wiped and created a new user account.

[Dr Unne]

Per-user Firefox settings should be reset when you delete and start a new Windows profile. But then again maybe when you delete a Windows profile it keeps the folders around, and if you make a new one with the same name it recycles those files. God only knows.

I'd uninstall Firefox, delete C:\DOCUME~1\USERNAME\APPLIC~1\MOZILLA, manually delete the Firefox directory in C:\PROGRA~1, delete anything else you can think of, reinstall Firefox (latest version you can find), and if that doesn't work, take a strong magnet to your harddrive.

[-N-]

[q=Unne]and if that doesn't work, take a strong magnet to your harddrive.[/q]Beat me to the punchline...

[Yamaneko]

I've tried all of this (except the magnet). I've even changed the temp folders to a different partition on my HD and no luck. I get the same error.

[crono_logical]

Does firefox store anything under the \Documents and Settings\All Users folder too? I use Mozilla, so don't know.

[Yamaneko]

Nope.

[-N-]

Why not just change what folder Firefox saves to? It should be in Options or Preferences or something...

[Yamaneko]

That doesn't make a difference since Firefox always saves to the temp folder then moves the file to your specified location after it's done downloading.

[crono_logical]

It really needs a download direct to destination thing like Opera does, very useful for larger downloads

EDIT: Or wget, good for even larger files like CD images