PaperMemoryStore directory not created, PDF files placed in the wrong location

[Symbolics]

The documentation for Local File Storage says:

"The extension creates a PaperMemoryStore/ folder in your Downloads/"

It does not. Furthermore, the PDFs are placed in ~/Downloads.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to a paper on Arxiv
2. Click on download
3. Note the location the file is downloaded

Expected behavior
I expect a directory named PaperMemoryStore to be created in the users Downloads folder and the file to be stored there.

Desktop

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Firefox
• Version 121.0
• PaperMemory version: 0.7.0

Additional context
I tried manually creating the PaperMemoryStore folder in ~Downloads directory, however that did not fix the problem.

[vict0rsch]

Hi, thanks for letting me know. I'll investigate next week and get back to you.

[vict0rsch]

I can't reproduce unfortunately...

The only control I have looks like this:

let filename = "PaperMemoryStore/" + payload.title;
filename = filename.replaceAll("?", "").replaceAll(":", "");
chrome.downloads.download({ url: payload.pdfUrl, filename });

It may be a bug in the the browser's chrome.downloads API (it's called chrome on Firefox too). I'll look online

[snunez1]

Following up here. When you say you can't reproduce, do you mean when running on MS Windows and Firefox it places the PDF in ~/Downloads/PaperMemoryStore/ for you?

[vict0rsch]

Sorry I missed this. I will have to check with Windows. Unfortunately my bandwidth is very very low for PaperMemory these days :(

[vict0rsch]

Still exploring, the only thing I can recommend is to try and delete any existing PaperMemoryStore/ folder, disable the feature then re-enable it.