Re: [Pan-users] How to change Pan's temp(orary) path to somewhere else?

[Ant]

> >
> >I was downloading very big files (wished posters/uploaders would use
> >split method instead of 450+ MB single files!) overnight, but some of
> >them failed because I ran out of free disk space in my Debian stable
> >box.
> 
> And what's even worse, pan cheerfully continues to download more files,
> even though it's continuously getting "filesystem full" errors upon
> saving them. At least that's what happened to me a few months ago.
> I don't know what version I was running back then but probably
> something like 1.33/1.34 or whatever was packaged with OpenSuSE 12.1...
> Apologies if it has been fixed in more recent versions.

Are you still using the old version?

 
> Perhaps pan could check for free space every time it starts to download
> another file from the download queue? It should have a pretty good idea
> about the expected file size, it needs the info for the "Bytes" column
> in the article overview anyway.

I would like to use the newer version, but it is a hassle to compile, 
find packages, meet dependencies, etc. Ugh. All we need is just to 
redirect the temporary location!

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