How can I stop the automatic downloading?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @graywoulf last edited by

@graywoulf There are instructions in the linked post. Just rename the folder and Opera will create a new one.

[graywoulf]

graywoulf last edited by

I looked in the help page and found the reference to my profile location. I could not find any folder or file that was labeled "Profile". That whole process is too much of a hassle and I really do not think that it would help in my situation. I am using Opera on both my laptop and my desktop PCs and the download issue is the same on both of them.

I truly feel that the lack of download options in Opera is the main problem and apparently there is no way to work around it so I guess I will have to live with Opera the way that it is unless the developers address the issue of there not being any selectable options for file downloads.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

graywoulf

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @graywoulf last edited by

@graywoulf There is no folder named profile. The profile folder is the one whose path you can see in the About Opera page.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @graywoulf last edited by

There seems to be a little confusion here, could you follow the instructions and explain exactly what the problem is?

Example of pages kn which you are having issues playing files may be helpful.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You can't stop it from downloading if the music is on the website as a file & not embeded in a media player within the webpage. As for images, they should open within the webpage, I'd say for the images issue your settings have gotten messed up..

Myself, I would download the latest version of Opera, export any bookmarks then uninstall Opera completely & delete all the Opera folders on your device, they often contain data files that will mess things up when you intall over a previous version.

There are 3 folders on a Windows PC that need deleting once you uninstall Opera, But first you have to go into "folder options" in control panel, select the "view" tab & check the box that says "show hidden files, folders & drives".

Once done you can delete the Opera folders found in these 3 locations on your PC
C:\Program Files
C:\Users\PCname\AppData\Local
C:\Users\PCname\AppData\Roaming

Reboot then install the latest version & import any saved bookmarks.

[graywoulf]

graywoulf last edited by

Thank you vpnone for that explanation and advice. I wish that you had been the first to respond to my post as your explanation has clarified what is happening when I want to listen to a music file. The picture file downloads are very rare and not really a concern. I do still however wish that there was an option to either download a music file or direct it to my music player. So. with your information, I consider this matter solved and done with.

graywoulf

[deestonic]

deestonic @graywoulf last edited by

Actually, I think the "problem" here is known long ago on this forum and to Opera makers.
People were asking for an option what to do with the file when clicked on it - just like it was in IE and some other browsers. You click on a file and the browsers pop up window comes and gives you option what to do with that file - run/open, save or cancel.
That function is still missed here i think.

[graywoulf]

graywoulf @deestonic last edited by

@deestonic You hit the nail on the head. I don't understand why leocg cannot get this exact point. I am glad to know that I am not the first to bring this up and really glad that some of you get what I am saying. Its all about having an option to download or not to download for the most part but furthermore, also having the option to play a .mp3 file from it's current location. Simple as that. Thanks for your input on this.

graywoulf

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Try these for example. They should all play in Opera without downloading.

https://www.sample-videos.com/video/mp4/720/big_buck_bunny_720p_1mb.mp4
http://techslides.com/demos/samples/sample.mp3
http://techslides.com/demos/samples/sample.m4a
http://techslides.com/demos/samples/sample.webm
http://techslides.com/demos/samples/sample.ogg

For a file to play in Opera, it depends on the mime type the server sends or its extension, the content-disposition (inline or attachment(attachment tells the browser to download instead)) the sever sends, whether Opera supports playing the file (the container and the codec(s) in it), and whether the type is enabled (by Chromium) for embedded playback. If all of that is correct, it'll do what you want. If the server isn't set up right, the browser is going to ask you to download it as that's all it can do or that's what the server told it to do.

Yes, it'd be nice if the user could override the handling of a type when the user knows what he's doing, but that's not something available right now.

[graywoulf]

graywoulf last edited by

Thanks for the information and your time gathering those links. Yes, I can play a lot of files on line such as files on the SoundCloud website but I want to listen to some mp3 files in a forum I hang around in but I always have to download those, listen to them and then I have to go to my download folder and delete them. That might sound like a trivial thing to most but if I find a lot of mp3 files I want to listen to then it gets to be a hassle.

Yes, the override option would be very nice for those files. Hopefully, someone is watching this thread that can make that happen... and soon.

graywoulf