Save Opened files in Temporary Folder
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It's official, Microsoft Edge has this feature before Vivaldi.
Despite Vivaldi users initially requesting it long before Edge users did (mostly because original Edge had the functionality, and it was only temporarily lost in the transition to chromium-based Edge).
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@ukanuk Compare the number of developers (literally in the thousands) at MS to the number at Vivaldi (fewer than 30). What do you see?
That said, they managed to move downloads to the Temp directory. Which of the other Vivaldi features have they matched or outpaced?
Just wondering.
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@Ayespy At the end of the day, I'm not going to complain too much about a free product. I'm happy there's a team of developers dedicated to making a better browser and trying some different things, and I'm happy they created forums to voice our thoughts and share our vision for Vivaldi.
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Another workaround.
vivaldi://settings/downloads/
Download Location
Select your favorite temporary folder.
On Ubuntu for example we can choose this folder: /tmp
or /home/administrator/.config/vivaldi-snapshot/Default/blob_storage
Inside blob_storage there is a folder that changes its name for each Vivaldi session.
Example: 6cdcse27-h735-4df1-38kv-a5909c3pb241
By putting the opened files inside these blob_storage folders we are sure that the next time Vivaldi is restarted they will be deleted.
Save Files to Default Location Without Asking must be deselected.
Open chrome://settings/downloads on Vivaldi and activate Ask where to save each file before downloading
Now when you click on Open in the download dialog you can choose where to place these files.
By clicking Save you can easily select the default Downloads folder of the operating system.
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@claudio said in Save Opened files in Temporary Folder:
On Ubuntu for example we can choose this folder: /home/administrator/.config/vivaldi-snapshot/Default/blob_storage
Inside blob_storage there is a folder that changes its name for each Vivaldi session.
Example: 6cdcse27-h735-4df1-38kv-a5909c3pb241
By putting the opened files inside these folders we are sure that the next time Vivaldi is restarted they will be deleted.Or set the download folder to %temp% ? Gets automagically cleaned during routine maintenance (cron / systemd timers and/or reboot).
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I wonder how many more years it will take to fix this popular issue?
I love Vivaldi but this is by far the most annoying feature.
Best wishes to all
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@apel It is not tagged as In Progress yet, which probably means it won't happen this year.
Related issue Support for MIME Types also has a lot of votes, but is still not in progress.
Too much to do and not enough to do it all.
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Not sure if developers actually read forum posts, but maybe they can copy the code from this fork of chrome that I used for a long time:
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@slydog3333 Is this software which can be used a commercial one? I can not find any license hints on web page.
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I want this behavior to be address. It have to and should already been done. Every files we hope to open should be directed to Vivaldi's temporary folder. At least, an option should allow it in Vivaldi's settings. It renders my download folder cumbersome and it's my worst disappointment about Vivaldi. I don't understand why it hasn't been corrected because it must annoy many users... I believe.
Is it that hard to do? It doesn't look that complicated : saving files that are opened instead of saved to %temp%\vivaldi and the saved ones to where they should. Even if it came from Chromium, why stick with it? Can Vivaldi's devs explain it, please. -
@jseb
I hope that your comment gets a useful response, and better, a fix.However, more likely this issue, as well a few other vivaldi features, started but not really developed are in the category "the person who wanted to do it, left, and no one else cares that much". The devs clearly have had time to work on other features, which get added with each new edition. Perhaps if "opened files" could be combined with shiny new colors they would be interested.
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@astro46 You make me worry about future Vivaldi's development... I hope it won't slows down. I like it, but browsers are such a important part in computers usage that it's one of my top priority for security and efficiency. So if Vivaldi ends up beaten, I will switch to better solution as I've done with my long loved Firefox when it begun having more compatibility issues with many websites.
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@jseb @astro46 You can read my workaround earlier in this thread at https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/253345. That way any files you click "Open" on will be saved in
%temp%/Vivaldi, and if you actually care to save a file you can use Save As and pick your Downloads directory or something else.It's a workaround and it's annoying the setting isn't synced and you can't actually use
%temp%in the directory name, but once you set it, it stays good for that install.It does get more annoying as the years march on though and we see other features come out that seem pointless to you and me personally. I totally empathize with that. I know Vivaldi devs aren't slowing development anytime soon, it's just their priorities often don't align directly with forum priorities. They are providing a free product and have to still fund it somehow (mostly through search engine deals I believe), so I try not to complain too much.
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@ukanuk Yes, I'm using this workaround. But as you, I think it's a workaround, not what Vivaldi should do with a basic limitation like this one. It isn't stand their level of software to me.
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Yes please : ) Have been waiting for years for this.
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I was just wondering, why there is an 'open' option at all
Either make it 'open only'(should not download) or remove the option entirely
Don't make it confusing, you have no idea all the horrors it can do to you
my cover photo says alot. 🤪😜
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@lockrol It's nice that people keep bringing up the inadequacies of the half-baked pdf function in vivaldi. It should be apparent by now that vivaldi has no intention of fixing it, similar to the half-baked saved sessions function, or the half-baked sync function. they are on to more important things like colors, and starting other functions, to have a longer list of (half-baked) functions.
It is great that they are creating a free browser with some good features, but it also indicates a lack of respect for current users to not fix problems in existing functions.
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@lockrol It is physically impossible to "open" a file without downloading it and storing it to the hard drive. IE and Firefox have always hidden that this is the case, but it results in a stored file in your "Temp" directory that you don't see, and so you think it wasn't downloaded. It was. It was also stored.
What you are objecting to is a function hard-coded into Chromium to download that file to a visible location rather than the invisible and incomprehensibly-coded "Temp" directory.
I don't know what the dev team is going to to ultimately, whether they are going to re-code/patch this basic function of Chromium to operate differently so that users can hide their auto-opened downloads from themselves, but the very concept that one can open a file without downloading is simply a lie.
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@Ayespy I rarely use firefox any more, and hadn't used IE for, uh, can't remember when.
I don't think anyone is concerned, technically, with whether a pdf has been downloaded. It is about having to download to non temp folder, and then having to deal with the downloaded pdf again later. this doesn't happen in all cases. some just appear when pdf link is clicked on . some have to download to a chosen folder, and then opened.
if the files needing "download' went to a temp file and auto opened, and skip the download window this would solve the issue, and the 'downloaded' pdf would go the way of all the other temp files, not requiring special handling. also, the download window shouldn't have an 'open' choice that was really no different than the 'save' choice. it is misleading and frustrating, as observed by another user. 'Open' ought to do just that, download to temp file and then open the pdf. No more user/pdf interaction needed.
Try to understand the import of comments and what is desired regarding operation, and don't get hung up on technicalities. It is not helpful.
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@astro46 If it bothers you that much, associate PDF files with Vivaldi. They will then be downloaded to a temporary folder, and opened in a Tab using the PDF Plugin.
