Steve N. said:
Right click on the link to the iso file and select Save link target as...
Steve N.
Hi,
Thats what I was doing. Internet Explorer always saves downloads to a
Temporary Internet Folder (TIF) first, regardless how the downloads are
initiated, before copying the downloads over from the TIF to the intended
target.
While transparent for most downloads, it can take a couple minutes for a
large .ISO to copy over even with my SCSI HDD's. I was downloading the
Suse .ISO's yesterday, and while the downloads were flying, it was annoying
waiting for each to copy over from the TIF. I thought maybe there might be
a registry hack to bypass the TIF all-together, but it is something hard
coded into IE and can't be changed.
Firefox uses a much better convention. When a download is initiated, it
sets up a 0k "place holder" file using the saved target filename, while the
file is downloaded to a "temporary file" in the same directly. Once the
download is completed, instead of just copying over, Firefox simply deleted
the "place holder" and re-names to "temporary file" to the intended target
name. No wait and no HDD grinding....