Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 15123

I've gotten into the habit of occasionally downloading rather huge files (~200 MB), and the way IE downloads, it automatically downloads to a temporary directory, then moves it to wherever you told it to save the file. This is annoying since it takes about 5 minutes after the file finishes downloading to move the damn thing to where I want it.

Any idea how to tell IE to just skip the temp directory and download directly to where I told it?

Umm... using Win2k, IE 5.0, if that makes any difference.

Thanks.

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: UK
Posts: 4736

Don't think so. You will either have to install a download manager or use an alternative browser(mozilla downloads straight to where you ask it to).

http://www.speedbit.com/DefaultT.asp?
http://www.reget.com/index.php?l=en

Two links to download managers that you might want to look at(they both have free versions for download that'll do what you need 99% of the time).

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Ah, damn. I've tried most of the other browsers, and except for Opera, none have really appealed to me (and Opera always seems to come up with errors for some reason). Well, I suppose I could install a second browser just for that site. I don't really like the download managers.

Thanks anyway.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Cambridge
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It really shouldn't take 5 minutes. It should be done almost instantly. Even if you were rewriting it, it shouldn't take that long.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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The files average ~200 megs. The temp directory and where I'm trying to download them to are on two separate drives. Moving between drives takes longer.
Oddly enough, though, when I tried saving one to the same drive, it did the same thing. Apparently it copies then deletes, rather than simply moving. Go figure.

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