Can Internet Explorer save directly?

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Ercreas

Anyone know how to get Internet Explorer to save downloads directly to an
intended final destination file/directory, bypassing the temporary BS?

Downloading large .ISO's and then having to wait for them to copy over from
a temporary location to their final destination is a major pain in the ass.

Thanks...
 
Ercreas said:
Anyone know how to get Internet Explorer to save downloads directly to an
intended final destination file/directory, bypassing the temporary BS?

Downloading large .ISO's and then having to wait for them to copy over from
a temporary location to their final destination is a major pain in the ass.

Thanks...
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Did some digging to see if it was possible to bypass downloads going to TIF
before being copied over to a "Save As" destination and it isn't. This is
hard coded into MSIE. Go figure. That may be fine and dandy with small
downloads, but its a major PITA with 600+ MB .ISO's.

Solution: Firefox. Firefox saves directly without any BS temporary file
dance.
 
Jon Kennedy said:
No. You'll need a third-party download manager to take over downloading
files from the browser to do what you want. http://www.getright.com/

--

Jon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC USA
(e-mail address removed)
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Hopefully IE7 will allow direct saves. The TIF dance is antidated for the
big downloads today. (I'm using Firefox now.)

Thanks...
 
I agree that first downloading to the TIF, then copying can be a pain -
especially with a slower computer. I've helped this issue considerably by
getting a much faster one. ;-) Have not heard that IE 7 will be any
different in this respect than IE 6, however.
 
Ercreas said:
Anyone know how to get Internet Explorer to save downloads directly to an
intended final destination file/directory, bypassing the temporary BS?

Downloading large .ISO's and then having to wait for them to copy over from
a temporary location to their final destination is a major pain in the ass.

Thanks...
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Right click on the link to the iso file and select Save link target as...

Steve N.
 
Steve N. said:
Right click on the link to the iso file and select Save link target as...

Steve N.
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Hi,

Thats what I was doing. Internet Explorer always saves downloads to a
Temporary Internet Folder (TIF) first, regardless how the downloads are
initiated, before copying the downloads over from the TIF to the intended
target.

While transparent for most downloads, it can take a couple minutes for a
large .ISO to copy over even with my SCSI HDD's. I was downloading the
Suse .ISO's yesterday, and while the downloads were flying, it was annoying
waiting for each to copy over from the TIF. I thought maybe there might be
a registry hack to bypass the TIF all-together, but it is something hard
coded into IE and can't be changed.

Firefox uses a much better convention. When a download is initiated, it
sets up a 0k "place holder" file using the saved target filename, while the
file is downloaded to a "temporary file" in the same directly. Once the
download is completed, instead of just copying over, Firefox simply deleted
the "place holder" and re-names to "temporary file" to the intended target
name. No wait and no HDD grinding....
 
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