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   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   Peter Brown wrote:   
   > Hi Dave   
   >   
   > Dave Yeo wrote:   
   >> Heiko Nitzsche wrote:   
   >>> 2. A downloaded file saved to the root directory of a hard drive   
   >>> does not appear in the file system. Also the Download Manager   
   >>> is not shown for this case. Once a subdirectory is chosen, the   
   >>> download works and also the Download Manager is shown.   
   >>> Saving the website HTML file to the root dir works.   
   >>   
   >> Someone else was complaining about this a month or more ago. I could   
   >> semi-reproduce it and it seemed to depend on the volume or file system   
   >> when the file couldn't be saved.   
   >> Dave   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > I attempted to download the win32 version of vlc - for a friend - to a   
   > fat32 formatted USB flash drive that was empty so the download was to root.   
   >   
   > The download completed successfully but the downloaded file did not   
   > appear on the flash drive.   
      
   The file was probably in your temp directory.   
      
   >   
   > Downloading the file to a subdirectory on hard drive and then copying to   
   > the root of the flash drive was successful.   
   >   
      
   It's a weird bug since as far as I know, we share all that code with    
   Windows.   
   Dave   
      
      
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