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Downloads Downloading But Not Saving

May 16th, 2009 |

I hate wasting time and today I spent three hours looking for an answer as to why all of a sudden, just from last night, downloads seemed to be downloading, but they were not saved to the location I specified. They weren’t saving in any location. This was in both Firefox and IE.

I can tell you after the first 10 Google searches and having read through about 100 pages that were not really relevant, I was REAL mad. I did however, finally, find a page that sorted the problem … http://support.mozilla.com/ca/kb/Unable+To+Download+Or+Save+Files, specifically this part … http://support.mozilla.com/ca/kb/Unable+To+Download+Or+Save+Files#Disable_virus_scanning_in_Firefox_preferences

It solved the problem in Firefox, but not in IE.

I am using AVG and had not had any problems up until last night. I don’t know if it is due to AVG or something else.

I decided to provide the fix for everyone here as it is a pain to find the right information or even something that is relevant to now. I spent a half hour looking for a file that is not included anymore in Firefox 3.0.

Anyway, I now have to scan all my files by hand before I extract or install them, but at least they are downloading.

Have you ever come accross this issue? How did you solve it? Share your fixes here.