magically vanishing downloads!?
 

I just read the slashdot article about the FBI's Magic Lantern trojan and headed over to TLDP Guides to download a Securing & Optimizing Linux guide, but...
I tried downloading the older (v. 1.3) HTML version & the new (2.0) one in pdf -- Galeon gives me the download dialogue, but when I look in the directory I'm installing to, it's not there. I logged out of KDE, back in...and neither file is there.

Um... :p ...guess I did 'something'.
Anyone ever have an issue like this? Oh, I'm writing to a normal user directory, something I have read & write access to. I even checked in the commandline as root - nothing. :/

have you done a

# find / -name <filetosearchfor> -print

as the root user?...

it should be somewhere.....

Anyway I use Download Manager of Netscape for quick and dirty downloads

Use wget, you know exactly where its downloading then.. ;)

I just read about wget. That's really cool; you can do pretty much anything from the commandline in Linux. :D

Yup, most of the time the GUI programs you see are just buttons for those commands used on the command line.. ;)