Browser temporary folder location

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#1

The title says it all. I would like to find the temporary folder of the browser as I have an intranet app that saved files in a /logs folder “somewhere” and my guess is that it ended up being in some temp folder…
I already tried "find .cache -name “7H” to no avail. Tried with other files and it found them. Also I’m not sure if the temp folder has restricted permissions.

#2

Not sure if that helps, but using devel-su / sudo and -iname instead of -name may give you more results. devel-su ensures full permissions, -iname ignores case

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#3

Thank you. The file and folder are not in the home directory… No idea where to search.

#4

Well usually whatever is downloaded by the Browser is stored in “Transfers”, accessible either from the Settings App, or directly from the Browser. You could look there.

Everything else regarding the browser itself is stored in ~/.local/share/org.sailfishos/browser AND below that in ~/.local/share/org.sailfishos/browser/.mozilla. That last one may be missed by a find command because of the hidden name.

It’s unlikely that you actually saved something in there though.

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#5

An “app” that saves files in “some location” through the browser without user interaction does not exactly sound plausible.

#6

A browser that downloads files without user consent or knowledge (other than the cache, internal functions and from known sources) sounds like a security risk waiting to happen.

Check the download folder.

#7

Haha you are right. Very bad explanation on my side.
So the “app” in question is a vcds-mobile car diagnostic device. It works with the phone hotspot and shows car data live, all in the browser. It saves reports and I can read them from within the browser. so either the device itself has some memory and that is where they are saved but I doubt it or it DOES save them in some browser cache somewhere which seems more likely.

On the other hand I did a search for some of these logs and did not find them so I don’t know in the end.

Thank you anyway for the kind CL tips.

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#8

They are stored locally on the device itself! I am useless!