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WebExtension for saving media, links, or selections into user-defined directories
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Program saved with symlink refuses to install in Win7 #111

Open gitut2007 opened 5 years ago

gitut2007 commented 5 years ago

Hi. I downloaded from https://www.foobar2000.org/download last version 1.4.4 , instead of saving it in C\user\downloads, I used a symlink to save it in other Drive\folder. It downloas fine, then in the target non-C folder I click the exe > the authorization dialog comes 'do you want to allow'... [and shows as if the file were from C] so I accept but I am informed +-'not for your Windows version'....

So I download the same file to the same non-C folder using regular FFox 'Save in' [so it asks to rewrite the file] and now the exe can be installed.

I guess this is a failure of symlinks and nothing your addon can do about? [like to take out the 'C' identifier so the file appears 'normal' as from it's true non-C folder?] So, for programs one should always use regular FF way and not use the addon+symlinks?

Thanks.

gyng commented 5 years ago

I suspect the file downloaded might be different from the file downloaded normally. Can you see if the filesizes are the same?

gitut2007 commented 5 years ago

Both are the same except if saved through symlink some sort of 'C\user\downloads' identifier is injected in the file [I know because in the Win7 pop-up when trying to install the exe it says the file is from that place instead of the true place where the file was saved], when trying to install the exe this seem to cause Win7 to reject it. It seems you are on Linux?, otherwise you could download and check the files behaviour in Win7 (the program is very small, 4 Mb.) Thx

gyng commented 5 years ago

@gitut2007 Hi, I've tried this on Windows 10, and it seems to work. Is the download being caught by antivirus, or blocked by Firefox/Chrome?

gitut2007 commented 5 years ago

No antivirus problem, not blocked, download perfect. Anyway the file should not be marked as being from a different folder as where it really is. Hopefully someone with win7 would report...

gitut2007 commented 5 years ago

Saving last Firefox with symlink worked [another issue: it saved a long string name without extension, I had to manually change the file name to 'ff67.exe' ] right. Hopefully the case with foobar was a one-off, if I have another fail occurrence with another program, I will report.