"The location is not a folder." error message

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Wed May 11 00:52:54 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:35:11AM +0300, Edgars �mits wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, wrong though it may be - the download is in the same
> location as before, the folder name hasn't changed, and I've pointed both
> Chromium and Firefox to it
> 
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:16:46PM +0300, Edgars �mits wrote:
>     > Just installed (fresh) 64 bit 11.04, so far no major complaints other
>     than that
>     > I tried out the Unity desktop and didn't like it, am back to Ubuntu
>     classic.
>     > However, I do have a weird problem. I'm running both Chromium and
>     Firefox, same
>     > error on both. I download a file, try to open it from within the browser,
>     and
>     > get an error message saying:
>     >
>     >  Could not display "/home/username/downloads/filename.pdf". The location
>     is not
>     > a folder.
> 
>     downloads should be Downloads.

I had it confused with Debian which I've been playing with a lot lately.
They include a Download directory with the installation.
> 
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