Firefox places downloads to irrelevant directories

[Ahmed Shams]

Firefox places downloaded files to irrelevant directories to the downloaded file type, for ex.
saves .mp3 to 'Downloads' directory not to 'Music'
saves .doc to 'Downloads' directory not to 'Documents'
though it saves video files to 'Video' directory not to 'Downloads'

[pype (pype-1999-geo)]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID: 2001080104

I usually put MP3 in a different directory than PDF files, which is not either
the one i use for pictures, etc.
It would be really great if mozilla was smart enough to pick the target
directory of a saved file based on its mime type (plus some user preference)
rather than storing every file in the last used directory ...

An intermediate feature would be to support a list of user's favourite store
location.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a tarball and put it into "install"
2. Download a mp3 and save it into "music"
3. Download a tarball again

Actual Results: aargh! you have to go back manually into "install" from music :(

Expected Results: mozilla "see" (or i told it before) i like storing tarballs
into "install" and open the save dialog with that directory rather than
the last directory used.

[Lhirlimann (lhirlimann)]

Reporter could you add [RFE] in your bug's description ? and change OS => ALL ?

[Alex-mozillazine (alex-mozillazine)]

Nice idea. Modern Windows versions have folders such as My Documents, My
Pictures, My Music and My Videos (they can be placed on older systems by other
software but the locations aren't always consistent e.g. Windows Media Player
prefers C:\My Documents\My Music whereas RealJukebox prefers C:\My Music).
These could serve as useful defaults on that platform. It should be possible to
customise these locations (and the MIME types), at the very least with a hidden
pref or possibly heuristics.

Marking NEW.

[Bugzilla-iwaruna (bugzilla-iwaruna)]

file handling

[Ipottinger (ipottinger)]

adding self to cc list

[Jruderman (jruderman)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 405146 ***

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

You should report this upstream here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110622232052

Steps to reproduce:

Downloading 3 files with the following extensions:
.mp3
.doc
.wmv

Actual results:

Firefox places downloaded files to irrelevant directories to the downloaded file type:

saves .mp3 to 'Downloads' directory not to 'Music'
saves .doc to 'Downloads' directory not to 'Documents'
though it saves video files to 'Video' directory not to 'Downloads'

Expected results:

Downloading all file types to 'Downloads' Directory.
To avoid cluttering the folder, I suggest to create a tree of folders under 'Downloads' folder, like:
'Downloads/Video'
'Downloads/Audio'
'Downloads/Documents'
etc..

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

Bug forwarded upstream, Thanks Timothy.

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

This bug exists on Ubuntu 11.04, if it makes a difference.
Thanks

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

Triaged with importance 'Low'.

[Fmdevelopertim (fmdevelopertim)]

Firefox let's you specify where you download a file. Updated title and component based on how I read your request. If I got it wrong, let me know.

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

The 'browser.download.dir' key was pointing to my Videos dir, I didn't modify it by hand, it might be caused by some add-on.
At this point, I'd like to suggest creating a tree of dirs under 'Downloads'(ie. Downloads/Video, Downloads/Music and Downloads/Documents) then download manager saves each downloaded file to it's relevant location, just to avoid cluttering the 'Downloads' dir, and it can load slowly, if that dir contained a lot of items.

Anyway, thank you Tim.

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

Changed to invalid as it is now a feature request.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Reopening paper cut task as part of a review of closed paper cuts.

[Deletesoftware+moz (deletesoftware+moz)]

*** Bug 405146 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Deletesoftware+moz (deletesoftware+moz)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 118924 ***

[Deletesoftware+moz (deletesoftware+moz)]

*** Bug 680580 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug marked as duplicate of #118924 so changing

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Removing Papercuts task. Ubuntu/Canonical are not going to implement this request. It's something that for the Firefox developers to implement upstream.

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