Firefox pdf plugin not remembering download directory and moving files from /run/user/XXX deletes them without a trace

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, dem 08.11.2023 um 13:07 +0100 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> When a pdf file is previewed in foirefox, the pdf previewer offers a
> button to
> save the file. In older installs (e.g. ubuntu-18.04, maybe prior to
> snap?) the
> dialog activated by this button remembered the directory that was
> selscted in
> previos invocations. It even remembered the directory dependant on
> the site
> the file was downloaded from.
> 
> In ubuntu-22.04, this dialog always resets to something like
> /run/user/1000/XXXX/YYYY, so one has always to manually navigate to
> the last
> download directory that was used last time.
> 
> Even worse: when I noticed this fact, I ran:
> 
>   $ cd /some/dir/very/deep/into/the/file/hierarchy
>   $ find /run/user/1000 -name '*.pdf' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t .
> 
> to move those files to the directory they belong.
> 
uh, rather do not do that since the files in /run are just mirroring
the file names ... 

snaps (including firefox) use flatpaks xdg-desktop-portals to store
files if you do not use the snap home interface ... there is some
documentation at:

https://snapcraft.io/docs/xdg-desktop-portals#heading--portal-vs-home

and here s the upstream doc:

https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/

ciao
	oli

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