Ken Schneider wrote:

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 11:13 +0200, Martin Deppe wrote:

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Hi you,

can you tell me where in konqueror I can change the default download directory for temporary files? I was looking in "Configure Konqueror" and inside some config files, but without success yet.

For example, when I go onto

"http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3608958177/028-8254727-6130121"

and click onto the link named

"Größeres Bild"

which referes to

"http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/3608958177.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"

konqueror tries to download the file into a temporary directory in order to display it, but then instead I get the following error:

Access denied

Could not write to /backup/SuSE-9.3/3608958177.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I really don't know how this became the default directory when downloading temporary files, but where can I change it again? I couldn't find it!

There doesn't appear to be a setting for this, however the default out of the box would -not- be /backup and that is not a folder that is created during install. My guess is you set that at some point when you first used konquerer. You might try asking on the kde mailing list at kde.org and see if they have the answer there.

Yes, I'll do so, thanks Ken! Martin

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:45 -0400, James Knott wrote:

Martin Deppe wrote: Doesn't the default become the directory you last used to download a file?

If it is, it is not documented anywhere I could find. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:59 -0400, James Knott wrote:

Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:45 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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Martin Deppe wrote: Doesn't the default become the directory you last used to download a file?

If it is, it is not documented anywhere I could find.

That's based on personal experience. In both Mozilla and Konqueror, when I download something, the last location I used, shows up as the target.

So what you are saying is that the OP needs to download anything to a different place and he should be OK after that? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

James Knott wrote:

Ken Schneider wrote:

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If it is, it is not documented anywhere I could find.

That's based on personal experience. In both Mozilla and Konqueror, when I download something, the last location I used, shows up as the target.

So what you are saying is that the OP needs to download anything to a different place and he should be OK after that?

Yes.

Well, I have downloaded something more into another directory already, but I still get this error when I try to just display something so that it needs to download it into a temporary directory. Martin

On 6/9/05, BandiPat wrote:

Martin, Until you can find out where to change this item, why not just make a link to your /tmp directory, where you do have write privileges. Where /backup>/tmp for now. I guess you could also make a /backup directory that is owned by you to test if that works also. Did you check to see if you had a /backup directory? If so, who owns it? If owned by root, you can just change that to you.

hopefully helpful, Lee

Martin, also, check if you have the same behaviour using another user. Most probably this is per user setting. All kde user settings are under ~/.kde. Use konqueror or mc to search in all files there to see where the string "backup" appears. Cheers Sunny

On 6/10/05, Martin Deppe wrote:

Thank you a lot Sunny,

THAT helped. It is in the file $HOME/.kde/share/config/kgetrc. Previously I was looking at the wrong places.

In that file there is a section called "Directories" and under that an option called "LastDirectory". When I changed the directory there I didn't get the error anymore.

But now there is something else which I have to look for: the file is being downloaded as it should but not displayed.

However, thank you very much Sunny and you all.

Martin

In Firefox, you can set what to be done based on the filetype. Looks like the same happens for you, and for jpg the default action is to use an external program to open it, which looks like does not exist for you or is broken. Check if you can set that it should open it in the browser, not by external program. I'm not very familiar with konqueror, so maybe someone else can help more. A possible staring point may be Control Center. Cheers Sunny