I was investigating why a download item on the Archive website was
causing problems for somebody, and got this error box:
Warning from Netsurf
The file could not be saved due to an error:
'ADFS::Drive2.$.2310d/zip' is a directory
Turned out that the drive where I was attempting to drop the
downloaded item already had a copy of the item. Deleted the copy,
retried the download, and it completed OK.
Two observations:
(1) The wording of the warning seems inappropriate. A "directory"?
(2) The text of the warning was not recorded by !Syslog (whose job is
to make it easy for people submitting bug reports to quote the exact
wording of an error message). I searched the whole log and found
nothing from Netsurf. Which leads me to ask:
Does Netsurf need to be tweaked somehow so that its errors will be
logged? Or does !Syslog (or its subsidiary !Wimplog) need the tweak?
*help wimplog says: "The Wimplog module logs errors sent to
Wimp_ReportError (ie, shown as error boxes on the screen) to a file
using !Syslog."
(I'm using Netsurf #2789 on Iyonix 5.18, Syslog 0.20, Wimplog 1.02)
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
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