How to force IE6.0 to download/save files to my other drive?

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Ant

Hello,

I only have about 1 GB free on my C: drive. I noticed downloading files
go to C: drive temporarily and then moved to the proper place on my E:
drive when completed. I need to download a 2 GB file from FilePlanet,
and there is no way it will fit on my C: drive.

How can I force IE6 to save directly to E:? I don't need it to do any
temporary. Just save it on E: directly. I am using Windows XP
Professional SP2 (all updates).

Thank you in advance.
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When you click a "download" link, usually you get a small window that
wants to know if you want to RUN the file or SAVE it... If you click SAVE,
there should be a SAVE Dialogue window open and you can send it to anywhere
you want.. There shouldn't be anything go to Temp folders UNTIL you install
it or whatever..
Click to expand...

That is what I did (default to e:\dl). I even tried again. I am not sure
where it goes on in my C: drive. It does NOT go to C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ since I do not see
the file growing. I even cleared the folder before downloading.

Weird that Process Explorer v8.61 shows C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\. How come Content.IE5 is not seen? I have to
type that in manually to go there. The download is saving to
C:\Documents and Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\StarWarsGalaxies_setup[1].zip.
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"I am afraid that I am convinced that a community of human beings is a
far more useful thing than a community of ants, and that if the human
being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and
over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human
being." --Norbert Wiener
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Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
 
Ant,
This sounds a little wierd to me.... Is your E drive a HD or are you
trying to
save it to CD or what? As for not finding the IE5 content... That is
another whole
subject.. I don't want to get into that here...
While you have IE open, click TOOLS/ Internet Options and click the SETTINGS
button on that window and then click on View Files and see if you see it
there.
XP has a couple little quirkes that I and some others are not to thrilled
with.
Burt

Ant said:
When you click a "download" link, usually you get a small window that
wants to know if you want to RUN the file or SAVE it... If you click
SAVE,
there should be a SAVE Dialogue window open and you can send it to
anywhere
you want.. There shouldn't be anything go to Temp folders UNTIL you
install
it or whatever..
Click to expand...

That is what I did (default to e:\dl). I even tried again. I am not sure
where it goes on in my C: drive. It does NOT go to C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ since I do not see
the file growing. I even cleared the folder before downloading.

Weird that Process Explorer v8.61 shows C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\. How come Content.IE5 is not seen? I have to
type that in manually to go there. The download is saving to C:\Documents
and Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\StarWarsGalaxies_setup[1].zip.
--
"I am afraid that I am convinced that a community of human beings is a far
more useful thing than a community of ants, and that if the human being is
condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over
again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human
being." --Norbert Wiener
/\___/\
/ /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx & http://aqfl.net
| |o o| | E-mail (nuke ANT if replying privately to a newsgroup
\ _ / post): (e-mail address removed) or (e-mail address removed)
( )
Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
Click to expand...
 
This sounds a little wierd to me.... Is your E drive a HD or are you
trying to
save it to CD or what? As for not finding the IE5 content... That is
Click to expand...

E: is a second partition of my first IDE HDD. I have HDD partitions up
to I: from three IDE HDDs. Yeah, there are a lot and two of my HDDs are
very old. :)

another whole
subject.. I don't want to get into that here...
OK!


While you have IE open, click TOOLS/ Internet Options and click the SETTINGS
button on that window and then click on View Files and see if you see it
there.
Click to expand...

If you mean my download, it wasn't there. Not even IE5's Content.

XP has a couple little quirkes that I and some others are not to thrilled
with.
Click to expand...

I can see that. I am currently downloading the big file in Mozilla and I
have it going directly to E: drive's folder (same location).

I still would like to fix this in IE though in case any Web sites demand
IE. :(

When you click a "download" link, usually you get a small window that
wants to know if you want to RUN the file or SAVE it... If you click
SAVE,
there should be a SAVE Dialogue window open and you can send it to
anywhere
you want.. There shouldn't be anything go to Temp folders UNTIL you
install
it or whatever..
Click to expand...

That is what I did (default to e:\dl). I even tried again. I am not sure
where it goes on in my C: drive. It does NOT go to C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ since I do not see
the file growing. I even cleared the folder before downloading.

Weird that Process Explorer v8.61 shows C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\. How come Content.IE5 is not seen? I have to
type that in manually to go there. The download is saving to C:\Documents
and Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\StarWarsGalaxies_setup[1].zip.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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"For while the giants have just been talking about an information
superhighway, the ants have actually been building one: the Internet."
From "The Accidental Superhighway." The Economist: A Survey of the
Internet, 1-7 July 1995, insert.
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/ /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx & http://aqfl.net
| |o o| | E-mail (nuke ANT if replying privately to a newsgroup
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Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
 
Ant,
In any case, when you do the save in on a download, IE "should" give you
the option of WHERE you want to save it.. I might be missing something
here..
Burt

Ant said:
This sounds a little wierd to me.... Is your E drive a HD or are you
trying to
save it to CD or what? As for not finding the IE5 content... That is
Click to expand...

E: is a second partition of my first IDE HDD. I have HDD partitions up to
I: from three IDE HDDs. Yeah, there are a lot and two of my HDDs are very
old. :)

another whole
subject.. I don't want to get into that here...
OK!


While you have IE open, click TOOLS/ Internet Options and click the
SETTINGS
button on that window and then click on View Files and see if you see it
there.
Click to expand...

If you mean my download, it wasn't there. Not even IE5's Content.

XP has a couple little quirkes that I and some others are not to thrilled
with.
Click to expand...

I can see that. I am currently downloading the big file in Mozilla and I
have it going directly to E: drive's folder (same location).

I still would like to fix this in IE though in case any Web sites demand
IE. :(

On 12/31/2004 12:29 AM PT, Burt wrote:


When you click a "download" link, usually you get a small window that
wants to know if you want to RUN the file or SAVE it... If you click
SAVE,
there should be a SAVE Dialogue window open and you can send it to
anywhere
you want.. There shouldn't be anything go to Temp folders UNTIL you
install
it or whatever..

That is what I did (default to e:\dl). I even tried again. I am not sure
where it goes on in my C: drive. It does NOT go to C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ since I do not see
the file growing. I even cleared the folder before downloading.

Weird that Process Explorer v8.61 shows C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\. How come Content.IE5 is not seen? I have to
type that in manually to go there. The download is saving to C:\Documents
and Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\StarWarsGalaxies_setup[1].zip.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
--
"For while the giants have just been talking about an information
superhighway, the ants have actually been building one: the Internet."
From "The Accidental Superhighway." The Economist: A Survey of the
Internet, 1-7 July 1995, insert.
/\___/\
/ /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx & http://aqfl.net
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Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
Click to expand...
 
Burt, I told it to save in e:\dl. That's the default location I picked.


Ant,
In any case, when you do the save in on a download, IE "should" give you
the option of WHERE you want to save it.. I might be missing something
here..
Burt

This sounds a little wierd to me.... Is your E drive a HD or are you
trying to
save it to CD or what? As for not finding the IE5 content... That is
Click to expand...

E: is a second partition of my first IDE HDD. I have HDD partitions up to
I: from three IDE HDDs. Yeah, there are a lot and two of my HDDs are very
old. :)


another whole
subject.. I don't want to get into that here...
OK!



While you have IE open, click TOOLS/ Internet Options and click the
SETTINGS
button on that window and then click on View Files and see if you see it
there.
Click to expand...

If you mean my download, it wasn't there. Not even IE5's Content.


XP has a couple little quirkes that I and some others are not to thrilled
with.
Click to expand...

I can see that. I am currently downloading the big file in Mozilla and I
have it going directly to E: drive's folder (same location).

I still would like to fix this in IE though in case any Web sites demand
IE. :(


On 12/31/2004 12:29 AM PT, Burt wrote:



When you click a "download" link, usually you get a small window that
wants to know if you want to RUN the file or SAVE it... If you click
SAVE,
there should be a SAVE Dialogue window open and you can send it to
anywhere
you want.. There shouldn't be anything go to Temp folders UNTIL you
install
it or whatever..

That is what I did (default to e:\dl). I even tried again. I am not sure
where it goes on in my C: drive. It does NOT go to C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ since I do not see
the file growing. I even cleared the folder before downloading.

Weird that Process Explorer v8.61 shows C:\Documents and
Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\. How come Content.IE5 is not seen? I have to
type that in manually to go there. The download is saving to C:\Documents
and Settings\Ant\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\EOWJFAJ7\StarWarsGalaxies_setup[1].zip.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
--
Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Norton SystemWorks (PC)
Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com
 
Ant said:
How can I force IE6 to save directly to E:? I don't need it to do any
temporary. Just save it on E: directly. I am using Windows XP
Professional SP2 (all updates).
Click to expand...

IE always downloads files to the TIF folder and then moves them to the
specified target location. So far as I know, there's no way to change
that -- it's built into the code. What may work is to move the TIF folder
to a drive that has more space available. Go to Internet Options >
General > Settings > Move Folder and select a differeny location.
 
IE always downloads files to the TIF folder and then moves them to the
specified target location. So far as I know, there's no way to change
that -- it's built into the code. What may work is to move the TIF folder
to a drive that has more space available. Go to Internet Options >
General > Settings > Move Folder and select a differeny location.
Click to expand...

Thanks. MS needs to fix that design. Not everyone has that much free
disk space on the system drive.
--
Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Norton SystemWorks (PC)
Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com
 
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