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unable to download email files from known email clients

eichej03
eichej03
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files from email are shown as downloaded; but then cannot be opened or found; e.g. files for Continuing Medical Education from the medical school show to be downloaded, but then cannot be opened. These were opened fine in the past.

files from email are shown as downloaded; but then cannot be opened or found; e.g. files for Continuing Medical Education from the medical school show to be downloaded, but then cannot be opened. These were opened fine in the past.

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David McRitchie
David McRitchie
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Downloaded files disappear:

If they were downloaded by Firefox you would see a download window come up then when the download finishes that download window disappears. If the download finishes in a few seconds the download window never appears.

To bring back the download window use the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl+J".

To make is so the download window does not disappear so you have behavior up though at least Firefox 3.6.* then change option(uncheck the close) in

  • Tools > Options > General >
    Downloads:
    [x] Show the Downloads window when downloading a file
        [_] Close it when all downloads are finished

To see where the file was downloaded to right-click on the file in the downloads window, The downloads window is a log of where the file was saved to, it does not mean the file is still there if you look at a later time.

There is an option to save files to a specific folder below tha, and to always ask where to save files.

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