Window 7 Dowload Location Sucks

[UaVaj]

even if the destination location (D) is selected prior to downloading. window 7 would still download to the main drive (C) then copy to the destination drive (D).

how do one go about turning off this useless feature and direct dowload to destination location.

 

[Bubbaleone]

What browser are you using?

 

[UaVaj]

ie8

 

[Bubbaleone]

That doesn't make any sense; when you download a file in IE8 and and select "Save", the file is saved to the location you select. It wouldn't matter if you chose C:\, D:\, or X:\ the files saves to whatever location you choose.

 

[UaVaj]

eventually it does save to the selected location.

problem is it saves to the primary cache (aka temp folder) first then transfer from primary cache to destination.

just check the ssd and it shows 1.5TB written. no way i have written that much to the SSD. stupid ie8 is doing it with all the mis directed downloads.

 

[Bubbaleone]

This is Windows default behavior and a non-problem. You didn't think that when you download a file from the intenet, or double-click an executable to install a program, that the data is written directly to the folder you specified, did you? The Temp folder is necessary for Windows to function correctly, but it is both a User as well as System variable. If you don't want want the %userprofile%\Temp folder on the SSD simply edit the User Variable to point to the HDD you want it located on (which pretty much negates the whole point of using a SSD for your System drive). Instead; why don't you just run disk cleanup on a regular basis and recover the space used by temp files?


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