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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Juerd wrote: > /tmp was full at 94% of a very slow download. So Mozilla decided to stop > the download completely. As soon as I clicked [OK], the file was > unlinked. No chance of resuming the thing. Now I need to start all over. > > Besides, I told it to save the file in /mnt/foo, not in /tmp. /mnt/foo > has more than enough available space. Mozilla must be following the IE philosophy of "download your file to a temp directory then *copy* it (not rename) to its final destination". This has the benefits of: * Consuming twice the disk space * Leaving your disk uncluttered by canceled downloads * Unburdens you of the desire to look at partially downloaded files. These days I download everything that'll take more than a few minutes with wget -c. -- Michael G Schwern schwern@xxxxx.xxx http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Sometimes I read your mail.
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