How To Change Temporary Download Directory of Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)

While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory. When the download is complete, it reconstructs the file and saves the final file in your specified directory. There is a simple way to change the location of temporary directory.

Go to Downloads menu and select Options / Configurations.

Select the Save To category in the tree on the left side.
You can change here the directory DAP uses for temporary files. Click the Browse button and choose a new directory. That’s it.

Cannot change temporary directory of already downloading files
Once you have started to download a file, its temporary directory cannot be changed. When you change the temporary directory, it affects only the new files to be downloaded. The only way around this is to cancel and delete the download and start fresh.

File types and purpose
The temporary files have names starting with LD and with tmp extension. A temporary file corresponds to one downloading thread. The data from all temporary data segments are coalesced at the very end and the final file written to specified location.