Seamonkey Download

[MozillianMonkey]

Download a file then close Seamonkey.

Now cannot find where the file went.

Seamonkey does not remember what it last did !
Seamonkey has no open last download folder or anything related.

Anyway I always use the default Seamonkey download folder but where is
it ???

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Post by MozillianMonkey
Download a file then close Seamonkey.
Now cannot find where the file went.
Seamonkey does not remember what it last did !
Seamonkey has no open last download folder or anything related.
Anyway I always use the default Seamonkey download folder but where is
it ???

Edit | Preferences | Browser | Downloads

When saving a file
(o) Save files to [Downloads] [Choose folder...]
(•) Always ask me where to save files

Download history
Remove download entries [When they have completed/When quitting
SeaMonkey/Never]


If it didn't ask and you didn't tell it where to put the file, the
folder listed in the first option is the place to look.

If the option you've set is "Downloads," click the "Choose folder"
button to see what that means. You don't actually have to choose a
folder, just cancel out once you see what it means.

If the Download Manager has nothing in its history, that doesn't mean
the /file/ is gone, just the DM's memory of it.

[WaltS48]

Post by MozillianMonkey
Download a file then close Seamonkey.
Now cannot find where the file went.
Seamonkey does not remember what it last did !
Seamonkey has no open last download folder or anything related.
Anyway I always use the default Seamonkey download folder but where is
it ???

My default folder is Downloads.

I just downloaded a file.
The Downloads Manager opened, showing me the file name, progress, time
left, and other information.
The Status Bar of the Download Manager shows me the location of the file
and the file.
My Downloads folder has the completed download.
The Downloads Manager stays open until the user closes it.

From the Menu Bar in SeaMonkey, using Tools > Download Manager opens it
with all the information for my download.

I believe Paul provided the settings information to check.

[JAS]

Post by MozillianMonkey
Download a file then close Seamonkey.
Now cannot find where the file went.
Seamonkey does not remember what it last did !
Seamonkey has no open last download folder or anything related.
Anyway I always use the default Seamonkey download folder but where is
it ???

Are you using another downloader besider the one in SeaMonkey? At times
I use Download Healper.

[Daniel]

Post by MozillianMonkey
Download a file then close Seamonkey.
Now cannot find where the file went.
Seamonkey does not remember what it last did !
Seamonkey has no open last download folder or anything related.
Anyway I always use the default Seamonkey download folder but where is
it ???

Thank you, MozillianMonkey, thank you for "telling me" I'm not going crazy!!

In late Feb (26th Feb, my time zone), I made a post here called ""Save
File" location", I stated that I was trying to download LibreOffice, and
a lot of action was occurring on my Internet connection, but I had no
indication, in SeaMonkey, of where the file was saved!

As I recall ...

1. I went to the Web Page for LibreOffice,
2. Clicked on "Download File" or some such,
3. That took me to donate.libreoffice.org and a small page opened asking
if I wanted to download the file.
4. I click "Download" or whatever ............

and that was it .... apart from the file actually being downloaded
somewhere!! I did not get a screen asking where I wanted the file saved
and the Download Manager did not open to indicate that a file was being
downloaded ... but I could see the activity ooccuring on my Internet
connection!

Eventually I have had to install Firefox so that I get told where my
file is being downloaded to!!

Two people, apparently, haveing the same problem with the same SM
version 2.46 on the same OS (Win7) ... does that need a bug posted, I
wonder??

[WaltS48]

Post by Daniel

Post by MozillianMonkey
Download a file then close Seamonkey.
Now cannot find where the file went.
Seamonkey does not remember what it last did !
Seamonkey has no open last download folder or anything related.
Anyway I always use the default Seamonkey download folder but where is
it ???

Thank you, MozillianMonkey, thank you for "telling me" I'm not going crazy!!
In late Feb (26th Feb, my time zone), I made a post here called ""Save
File" location", I stated that I was trying to download LibreOffice,
and a lot of action was occurring on my Internet connection, but I had
no indication, in SeaMonkey, of where the file was saved!
As I recall ...
1. I went to the Web Page for LibreOffice,
2. Clicked on "Download File" or some such,
3. That took me to donate.libreoffice.org and a small page opened
asking if I wanted to download the file.
4. I click "Download" or whatever ............
and that was it .... apart from the file actually being downloaded
somewhere!! I did not get a screen asking where I wanted the file
saved and the Download Manager did not open to indicate that a file
was being downloaded ... but I could see the activity ooccuring on my
Internet connection!
Eventually I have had to install Firefox so that I get told where my
file is being downloaded to!!
Two people, apparently, haveing the same problem with the same SM
version 2.46 on the same OS (Win7) ... does that need a bug posted, I
wonder??

Must be Win 7.

I went here
<http://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/win-x86/5.3.1/en-US/LibreOffice_5.3.1.1_Win_x86.msi>

A dialog box appeared telling me I have chosen to download the file,
with the options to Save or Cancel.
I chose Save.
A Windows File Explorer dialog box came up showing me the file
destination and fields for the File name and Save as type, already
filled in.
Clicking Save there, the SeaMonkey Download Manager opened showing me
the destination of the download in the status bar.
I checked Windows File Explorer and the file is there in my Downloads
folder.
I closed SeaMonkey, reopened it, checked the Download Manager and my
download still shows.

Check all of your settings as Paul suggested to MozillianMonkey.

[Daniel]

Post by WaltS48

Post by Daniel

Post by MozillianMonkey
Download a file then close Seamonkey.
Now cannot find where the file went.
Seamonkey does not remember what it last did !
Seamonkey has no open last download folder or anything related.
Anyway I always use the default Seamonkey download folder but where is
it ???

Thank you, MozillianMonkey, thank you for "telling me" I'm not going crazy!!
In late Feb (26th Feb, my time zone), I made a post here called ""Save
File" location", I stated that I was trying to download LibreOffice,
and a lot of action was occurring on my Internet connection, but I had
no indication, in SeaMonkey, of where the file was saved!
As I recall ...
1. I went to the Web Page for LibreOffice,
2. Clicked on "Download File" or some such,
3. That took me to donate.libreoffice.org and a small page opened
asking if I wanted to download the file.
4. I click "Download" or whatever ............
and that was it .... apart from the file actually being downloaded
somewhere!! I did not get a screen asking where I wanted the file
saved and the Download Manager did not open to indicate that a file
was being downloaded ... but I could see the activity ooccuring on my
Internet connection!
Eventually I have had to install Firefox so that I get told where my
file is being downloaded to!!
Two people, apparently, haveing the same problem with the same SM
version 2.46 on the same OS (Win7) ... does that need a bug posted, I
wonder??

Must be Win 7.
I went here
<http://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/win-x86/5.3.1/en-US/LibreOffice_5.3.1.1_Win_x86.msi>
A dialog box appeared telling me I have chosen to download the file,
with the options to Save or Cancel.
I chose Save.

Yeap, follow you this far .... but not what follows, which has occured
in SM, previously, when I've downloaded files using Win7, but not, I
think, since I installed ver 2.46.

Post by WaltS48
A Windows File Explorer dialog box came up showing me the file
destination and fields for the File name and Save as type, already
filled in.
Clicking Save there, the SeaMonkey Download Manager opened showing me
the destination of the download in the status bar.
I checked Windows File Explorer and the file is there in my Downloads
folder.
I closed SeaMonkey, reopened it, checked the Download Manager and my
download still shows.
Check all of your settings as Paul suggested to MozillianMonkey.

Yeap, Walt, been there, done that (or rather not done that as that was
how it already was!), and still doesn't work, in ver 2.46.

In my other thread, it was suggested I set up a new profile. If my
problem is not fixed beforehand, I'll do that when the first ESR version
(2.49, I think) comes out.

My response to this thread was mainly to indicate to the OP,
MozillaMonkey, that s/he is not alone.

[Ray Davison]

Post by Daniel
In my other thread, it was suggested I set up a new profile. If my
problem is not fixed beforehand, I'll do that when the first ESR
version (2.49, I think) comes out.

Do you not understand you can have as many profiles as you want. Rather
than mess with a profile that might be OK, copy it with a different
name, and play with that one. Or, create a new, clean one.

Start SM from a shortcut. Open the shortcut preferences. Make the
"target" look like;
H:\SM246-Win\seamonkey.exe -Profilemanager

SM will now always start with Profile manager. Select "create new
profile". Give it the name of your copy. Lead it to where you put the
copy and have it "create" that.

Now when you run SM you will always select the profile you want for that
session, and you will never fall into the trap of running with a profile
that an update created, and wondering where your mail went.

And, broken record alert!! Get the profile out of the app, and get the
mail out of the profile. They are all different things, get updated in
different ways, and fail in different ways. It is much easier to deal
with them separately.

And to get really radical, I have been using SM since it was called
Netscape. And I have never used an EXE "installer", I have always used
the ZIP distros; unzip, rename, create a shortcut, run. And I will
never copy one OS or app over a previous. Sometimes the new doesn't
work. In the case of SM you can have as many versions as you have HDD
space. So you can "softly" transition from older to new, and go back if
you want. Once when looking for the date/time of a bug insertion, I had
twenty versions on the HDD; run one at a time.

Ray

[Daniel]

Post by Ray Davison

Post by Daniel
In my other thread, it was suggested I set up a new profile. If my
problem is not fixed beforehand, I'll do that when the first ESR
version (2.49, I think) comes out.

Do you not understand you can have as many profiles as you want. Rather
than mess with a profile that might be OK, copy it with a different
name, and play with that one. Or, create a new, clean one.

Yes, already have Default plus three others (old ones).

[Ray Davison]

Post by Daniel
Two people, apparently, haveing the same problem with the same SM
version 2.46 on the same OS (Win7) ... does that need a bug posted, I
wonder??

If you will always specify the download target, you will discover a neat
feature. SM remembers where you specified last time by domain. I
download to multiple sub-directories over multiple HDDs. And the next
time I go to a domain I previously downloaded from, SM offers to put the
new file where I had it put the last one.

SM lets you put profiles, mail, downloads, where you want. And you
don't need to wonder where it went, and stuff does not get "lost".

Ray

[Daniel]

Post by Ray Davison

Post by Daniel
Two people, apparently, haveing the same problem with the same SM
version 2.46 on the same OS (Win7) ... does that need a bug posted, I
wonder??

If you will always specify the download target, you will discover a neat
feature. SM remembers where you specified last time by domain. I
download to multiple sub-directories over multiple HDDs. And the next
time I go to a domain I previously downloaded from, SM offers to put the
new file where I had it put the last one.
SM lets you put profiles, mail, downloads, where you want. And you
don't need to wonder where it went, and stuff does not get "lost".

Thank you, Ray!

I was going to reply to you about ten minutes ago, stating that I notice
you and I have the same User Agent string except that you "advertise
Firefox compatibility", and I was going to ask you to turn off your
"advertise Firefox compatibility" and re-boot SM to see if downloading
files still worked correctly for you. But, then, I thought, I the one
with the problem so why should I get you to do anything!

I then turned on the "advertise Firefox compatibility" function
(Edit->Preferences->Advanced->HTTP Networking->User Agent String),
re-booted SM, went to the SeaMonkey download page, selected en-US
Windows version to download, got the first screen asking if I wanted to
save the file, clicked "Download" and go a screen enabling me to select
where I saved the file. This was the screen that I was not being offered
previously!!

I cancelled the download, reset my prefs to not "advertise Firefox
compatibility", re-booted SM, went to the SeaMonkey download page,
selected en-US Windows version to download, got the first screen asking
if I wanted to save the file, clicked "Download" and go a screen
enabling me to select where I saved the file.

YEAH!!!

I guess, when I selected "advertise Firefox compatibility", I guess that
might have caused SM to re-write the prefs.js file, so now it works
again!! Yeah.

Hopefully, the OP sees this post and I remember this if/when it happens
again!

[Ray Davison]

Post by Daniel
Hopefully, the OP sees this post and I remember this if/when it
happens again!

Create a mail folder and name it "remember this if/when it happens
again!", or some such. And make a copy of the mail that contains both
the question and the answer, and place it in that folder. I have
several such folders by subject.

Ray