why does firefox save to the temp dir even though i have it set to download dir
i even tried to turn on suggest save dir when saving but firefox saves straight to the c dir temp file always...
Chosen solution
It is possible that your anti-virus software is causing the problems by preventing Firefox from moving the file from the temp folder to the destination folder.
Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.
See "Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences - Windows"
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Hi rvsteve,
It sounds like your preferences just aren't being saved. You should look at the article How to fix preferences that won't save Knowledge Base article.
Hopefully this helps!
Chosen Solution
It is possible that your anti-virus software is causing the problems by preventing Firefox from moving the file from the temp folder to the destination folder.
Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.
See "Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences - Windows"