On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote: > On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:57 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Your right , I got there just ahead of you, and did the same, > > it revealed the list of files and directories , and amoungst them > > were two files <something>.html which looked suspicious to me and > > I zapped them with the remove command , that allowed me back into > > download2 directory via Left mouse clicking etc., where all my > > downloaded files were pleasantly sitting there, phew ! > > But there ought to be someway of stopping konqueror/NT from doing > > this. I bet it's something quite simple, but what. > > NT doesn't seem to have anything in options to define what files > > to allow to download like getright has. Konqueror has file > > associations, but what do I do ? what to add , or what to omit , > > or what to rearrange ? I know not. Perhaps some of you out there > > can suggest ? > > This, I think, is an interesting user interface problem; what do > you do when there's a _redirection_ to a file you're trying to > download. > > If I click on a file in Konqueror called 'bloggs.zip', which is > linked to directly, it asks 'do you want to open it in Ark?'. > > If I click on a URL which points indirectly to a file called > bloggs.zip (typically via a CGI script which points to a mirrored > server) it asks 'what do you want to open it with?' > > This behaviour with direct download (particularly annoying with RAM > files when you're trying to play an audio file) is probably a bug, > but what happens when you drag and drop is hard to get round. > > If you drag and drop to the desktop, how does Konqueror 'know' that > you want to save the ZIP file rather than the CGI file? (In that > instance it's obvious - 99 per cent of time the ZIP file - but > there are surely other instances where it's not). > > I think the HTML files you found are a result of all this. > > Alastair Yes, I'm no expert but it sounds right. You see , quite often you go to a download website and see something like download zxcvb.src.rpm all highlighted in another colour you move your cursor over the highlighted text and the usual little white hand appears, and so you think you are on the actual download file, you drag it across to the NT desktop icon and it loads perfectly nicely into NT window and eventually the download is completed. Turns out you did not download the file you thought you were downloading because the download zxcvb.src.rpm was not a file but a link to another website, the result is that you favourite download directory has become a copy of that website.
All right, so now I know how to get back into the directory and I'm not so pertubed anymore. Still , perhaps I have been a little unfair on konqueror, maybe the real problem is NT. As I say in getright you have a whole configuration section given over to what kind of files to allow to download. There, the problem, if you can call it one , is that quite often you come across a new type of file that needs additing to the list so that they don't get rejected. NT it would seem is an open book, you can dump amything at all on it and it will accept it whithout question. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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