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[FirefoxNightly] Save downloads at an user-accessible location #24

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paulusasol opened this issue May 17, 2017 · 3 comments
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[FirefoxNightly] Save downloads at an user-accessible location #24

paulusasol opened this issue May 17, 2017 · 3 comments

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@paulusasol
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I just tried downloading some files using the Nightly flatpak, however, I couldn't find them anywhere outside of the flatpak, they apparently landed inside some directory not easily accessible outside the flatpak. It is a little bit annoying being forced to redo a 3.5GiB download.

Proposed quick-fix

The easiest thing should be to add r/w filesystem access to the users downloads folder using --filesystem=xdg-download:rw so that the flatpak has access to the user's download folder.

@paulusasol paulusasol changed the title Save downloads at an user-accessible location [FirefoxNightly] Save downloads at an user-accessible location May 17, 2017
@garrett
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garrett commented May 25, 2017

Current workaround: Until a fix lands, you can run the following:

sudo flatpak override org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly --filesystem=xdg-download

...and then restart Firefox. After that, go to preferences and select your download location (and choose your normal downloads folder).

@glaubersm
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this workaround does not work with Wayland build.

@xhorak
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xhorak commented May 29, 2017

The -filesystem=xdg-download:rw added to the builds. Thanks.

@xhorak xhorak closed this as completed Jun 19, 2017
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