Where do mega files download to

Learn more. How exactly does MEGA's download work? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 8 months ago. Active 8 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times.

Improve this question. Jeff Jeff 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Alex Dodswm Dodswm 7 7 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. Ah interesting. So the graphical download creates the file in the directory mentioned in your answer. The start of the browser download is the movement from that directory to your download destination folder. Is that right? What are the benefits to this? Yes, exactly Well, it seems to copy, not move the file.

As for the benefits, i'm struggling to see any! I'm also struggling to find out how long the file is stored in your User Data folder, as i downloaded something from mega about 3 days ago and the mb file is still there. But if resuming is not needed it can just store files in memory, decrypt then and download those using the saveAs method or FileSaver. There is only one reason for this: files on mega are encrypted and they stay encrypted until they are on your harddisk.

I added the extension and sure enough the entire file is there. Not sure why it needs to copy it? Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Alex Alex Any source for this? This is the correct location for Windows. Helped me a ton as Mega didnt automatically save the file I downloaded so I had to hunt for it myself.

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