T
Timothy Miller
Whenever you click on a link in IE which is associated with a file to
download, a "file download" dialog is opened which gives you the
options to "save" or "open" the document. If I save the document, say
to the desktop, I can then open the file from where I saved it,
without trouble.
However, if I tell IE to open it directly, it downloads the file then
launches the appropriate external program, but the external program is
never able to locate the file.
Programs like Notepad and Wordpad, for instance, will tell me that
they can't find the file, and they give me a path into the IE cache.
Indeed, the file is never there, nor is there every any file even
similarly named. Interestingly, doing a search of the whole drive
also yields no results, as though IE never actually downloaded the
file!
Documents which normally appear embedded in the web page (pdf, doc,
ppt, etc.) do appear correctly. But documents which require launching
an external program (txt, avi, dvi, etc.) can never find the file.
I have tried "Internet Options > General > Delete Files" to delete
temporary internet files, but that didn't help. I also tried using
Norton Clean Sweep. No luck. The drive has plenty of space, so it's
not a problem of anything hitting any limits.
I'm using WinXP Pro (SP1) with IE 6.0.2800. I had installed SP2, but
that broke too many things, so I had to uninstall it, but that isn't
the cause of the problem, since this problem arose before SP2 was even
available. I just haven't gotten around to investigating it until
now.
Can anyone help me to figure out what's gone wrong here?
Thanks!
download, a "file download" dialog is opened which gives you the
options to "save" or "open" the document. If I save the document, say
to the desktop, I can then open the file from where I saved it,
without trouble.
However, if I tell IE to open it directly, it downloads the file then
launches the appropriate external program, but the external program is
never able to locate the file.
Programs like Notepad and Wordpad, for instance, will tell me that
they can't find the file, and they give me a path into the IE cache.
Indeed, the file is never there, nor is there every any file even
similarly named. Interestingly, doing a search of the whole drive
also yields no results, as though IE never actually downloaded the
file!
Documents which normally appear embedded in the web page (pdf, doc,
ppt, etc.) do appear correctly. But documents which require launching
an external program (txt, avi, dvi, etc.) can never find the file.
I have tried "Internet Options > General > Delete Files" to delete
temporary internet files, but that didn't help. I also tried using
Norton Clean Sweep. No luck. The drive has plenty of space, so it's
not a problem of anything hitting any limits.
I'm using WinXP Pro (SP1) with IE 6.0.2800. I had installed SP2, but
that broke too many things, so I had to uninstall it, but that isn't
the cause of the problem, since this problem arose before SP2 was even
available. I just haven't gotten around to investigating it until
now.
Can anyone help me to figure out what's gone wrong here?
Thanks!