Comment 26 for bug 1864901

@Ebuzer: Downloads are already stored by default outside of the versioned directory, in the user's XDG downloads directory (typically $HOME/Downloads). The rationale for versioning the profile directory is that the storage format isn't backwards compatible, so downgrading a snap to a previous revision would potentially render a profile unusable.

@Roman: this is indeed something that, longer-term, should be addressed in snapd itself. This is merely a stop-gap measure to mitigate the problem until this happens. Note that ubuntu-bug hanging sounds unrelated to this particular issue. Can you elaborate on what you're trying to do, and how it hangs?