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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Software => Topic started by: ziggy29 on May 30, 2016, 07:51:55 AM

Title: Changing download folder location in Classilla 9.3.3
Post by: ziggy29 on May 30, 2016, 07:51:55 AM
Everything I'm downloading in Classilla is going to an unusual location and I'm not sure why.  In Download Manager, it keeps going to the following location: 

Library:Application Support:Apple:Grapher

I have not found any way to override this undesirable location in the application preferences or anywhere else.  Does anyone know if there is a way to do that? 
Title: Re: Changing download folder location in Classilla 9.3.3
Post by: Mat on May 30, 2016, 09:34:56 AM
I am a little bit confused. At all my Classilla installations when I download something the following happens: I klick to a downloadlink and subsequently a file selector window appeares and askes me where to save the file. I can select every place, individually at every download.

Also I never heard anything about a "Library" folder at Mac OS 9! Are you using Classilla at any X machine in Classic instead of Mac OS 9?
Title: Re: Changing download folder location in Classilla 9.3.3
Post by: ziggy29 on May 30, 2016, 12:10:55 PM
No, that's the odd thing.  I haven't ever used it on X on this machine. That said there was an old OS X Tiger install also on this partition which I guess is why the Library folder is there. 

I don't know why downloads were going there, but I fixed it by right clicking a link and changing the directory in the "Save As..." dialog.  There apparently is no way to change it directly in Download Manager through Mozilla which seems counterintuitive to me. 
Title: Re: Changing download folder location in Classilla 9.3.3
Post by: Mat on May 30, 2016, 12:48:31 PM
You are right. I didn´t find a possibility to change a download folder in the preferences as well. Perhaps there is a possibility in the about: config ? And you are right with Mozilla in general as well (at least sometimes).

You library folder and the download location is still strange, ...
I never have seen Classilla automatically downloading anything without the file selector window before. Is your downloade location now permanentely changed?