Downloading is the process of receiving digital data from another computer, either over a local-area-network or a wide-area-network (i.e. the internet).

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Is it possible to download only a certain percentage of a file wit Kget (or wget)?

I need to download some large files (ISOs of some Linux distros) and I'm connected to the internet with a mobile broadband connection, which has a limited amount of daily total data transfer size. ...
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wget or sitesucker alternative for fast multithread downloading websites? [closed]

Currently I'm using a program called Sitesucker http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11634/sitesucker to download a website for backup. However since it's pretty large website and I'm not sure how ...
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Browser downloading after virus?

I have cleaned several windows 7 computers from Exploit:Java/CVE-2013-0431. Everything is back to normal on the computers except for one thing... User downloads using any internet browser (port 80 ...
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Download css files from web page

How can I download css files from webpage which are @import /css/main.css @import /css/style.css and so on. Actually I have to download all the webpage, which is made using php. And there ...
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Iptorrents seeding are not working in uTorrent after download?

After finished downloading,it goes inactive. seeding are not working. how do i seed to iptorrents? Please help me.
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How do I download SQL Server 2012 Express?

I feel like an idiot asking this question, but I can't seem to find the magic combination. (Or maybe Microsoft's website is broken. I'm not sure which.) Anyway, here's what I'm trying. Open ...
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How to find mega downloaded files location

I did download a file from Mega.co.nz, and when it finished downloading I closed the open file command, and now I could not find the downloaded file.I use Firefox to access the Mega download link. ...
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downloading with pause and resume

I have my own server running lighttpd. When viewing the headers with "curl -I ..." on my laptop through my standard / regular internet connection, I get this: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: ...
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19MB/s Net Speed but Only 2MB/s Usable

Hi so i just got internet a about a month ago and my net speed is 19MB/s, I have tested it on loads of sites they all say the same thing(19MB/s), but it wont use more than around 2MB/s i have tried ...
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Does Outlook.Com scan compressed attachments (or ANY attachments)? [migrated]

My wife has Hotmail and asked me if a ZIP attachment is safe to download. I didn't know, actually, even though I felt 99% sure it was scanned automatically. However, I still don't know the official ...
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Downloads are corrupted

Almost every file I download is corrupted. I have to use my second computer on the same network to download my drivers to install. At first I thought it was my Intel SSD, so I removed it and tried ...
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How I can download AJAX enabled site? [closed]

I am using Browse-Offline to download sites locally on my computer so I can browse them at a later time. It's quite ok but I want a tool that can download all the pages of a site that has AJAX ...
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Is it possible to get a Windows Vista disc or do I have to buy Windows new?

I just acquired a old box without a hard drive, although it has a product key certificate for Windows Vista on it. I know it is possible to download ISOs for Windows 8, but is it possible to get one ...
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How can I download the pages referenced by me bookmarks as html files?

I have lots of bookmarks (guitar chords of songs) , saved in Google Chrome, and also a nice program called XMarks It works great, but one problem is, some of the old webpages is getting deleted, so I ...
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Identify web pages with embedded video play from list [closed]

I have a list of thousands of web page URLs I would like to analyze to see when they contain a particular video. I need a tool which would download the source code from individual URLs listed in a csv ...
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What is the command line syntax to download/convert a file using VLC

I'm using VLC to download/convert a .m3u8 file (just the raw data, no transcoding). Using the GUI, VLC runs out of memory after about 1.4Gb of the file, so I want to see if it works better from the ...
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cURL wont download for me?

OS X 10.8.3, from a terminal I am executing: $ curl -OCv http://<URL>/<file>.dmg I get (for 2 seconds) % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current ...
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Download manager downloads more than file size [closed]

That's really awful! specifically when my Internet charges are calculated per mb! Well the issue occurred when I tried to download a 600mb file by Orbit download manager, It was 2.5 hours elapsed ...
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how to download a single file in separate chunks with different computers in LAN?

I have access to a LAN network with about 20 computers and I want to download a file with large size which will take ages to download with my current download speed ( 50 kilo-byte/s ) So, I am ...
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Why is there shasums with some downloads?

Like when you download node.js there is a long list of shasums for each download, windows, osx, linux. http://blog.nodejs.org/ Why is that? I know you can check a file sha1sum and thereby check if ...
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how do i pause a huge download into Thunderbird?

I am downloading about 15000 emails into Thunderbird to store them. Anyone know if I can 'pause' the download so that I can work on my computer which is VERY slow and then 'restart' when I go to bed? ...
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Browser downloads jpgs, doesn't display them

My browsers (Chrome, IE both exhibit this behavior), when faced with an href link that points to a .jpg file, downloads it rather than displays it. I think perhaps something happened with file ...
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Permissions affecting download? [closed]

I have an interesting question/scenario for you to ponder on. Currently one of our departments utilizes a web-based system to access, upload, download documentation/licensing for employee's. Our ...
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Where to download the official Office 2013 to use with a PKC?

We bought a Dell computer with Windows 7 pro + Office 2013 home & business. The disk has failed the day we installed it (hardware failure). The disk is now replaced, but the Dell technician ...
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Download with iGetter stops and hangs after a 97% complete

I'm using iGetter 2.8.7 to download Netbeans 6.8, the size of which is 145.02 MBs. I've tried it multiple times and every time it stops when it has downloaded 97% of that file. The speed gradually ...
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How to download large amounts of files via ubuntu

I am trying to download around 15,000 individual user files from an FTP backup space. I know the files exist because if I put a certain username that was not downloaded with the regular wget it can be ...
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Stop Chrome from downloading and keeping multiple copies of the same file

For example, everytime I click on the same attachment in Gmail it downloads a new copy and renames it to something like file(x).bar where x is the current number of copies. Is there any way to get it ...
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Downloading a website using wget, is download speed more important?

I'm trying to download a favourite website with lots of pictures, its around 10 gigabytes in size. I'm using sitesucker right to download it and I've noticed that although I have a 10Mbps download ...
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Batch downloading Oracle Java Magazine

is there a way to batch download Oracle Java Magazine from this link? http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/ for example http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine_open/20130304 ...
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Downloading mass '.txt' from website

I am trying to download a bunch of (lets say .txt files) from a website, now they're not very big (about 4-10kbs each) but there are about 70000 of them. All I am after is the .txt, I don't want to ...
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Internet Download Manager

I have uninstalled Internet Download Manager from my Computer running on windows 7. But still in registry search it show about 70 entries that could not be yet removed. How can I clean it?
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How can I stop compressed files being decompressed when I download them?

I've found that downloading certain gzip compressed files from our workplace's internal network causes the files to be decompressed as part of the download process. I don't want this to happen ...
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How can I download a small section of a long Youtube video?

I need to download about 30 seconds from 50 different 30-minute long videos. Is there anything that would let me do this without downloading the whole of each video? Thanks
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my Download speed

I connect via a cell phone. It indicates speed as 921.6 Kbps. When I download a program or other it shows a download speed of 3 - 5 Kbps while downloading. Can I increase my download speed or is it ...
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How would I go about hiding my country for HTTP browsing?

There's a filesharing site I used to use a lot which started blocking US IP addresses. I'm wondering what the best way is of continuing to download from there. I've explored a number of options. ...
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wget downloads empty files even with proper referer and cookies

I'm trying to scrape Brenda Enzymes for a bunch of molecule files with a script. If I just download by file URL (it's a PHP redirect), I get a 0Kb file, so I think they're checking for cookies and/or ...
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My computer stops every download at 99%

Whenever I start any downloading it stop on 99% and never completes. I changed my download manger and stopped firewall, but all in vain. Problem contiunes to persist. What is causing this problem and ...
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Large downloads corrupt. Possibly because of failing hard drive. Anything I can do?

I'm on a macbook pro (10.8) with an SSD. Large downloads are ending up corrupt. I suspect that this is because the SSD is failing. Spotlight indexing is taking a very long time as well. I plan to ...
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Cannot write to “HAIB_T47D_FoxA1.tar.gz” (Input/output error)

I am trying to download a dataset (bigger than 1 GB) using wget: wget http://cistrome.dfci.harvard.edu/MACSNatureProtocol/HAIB_T47D_FoxA1.tar.gz However, I always get the following error message: ...
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How to download PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 7 32bit?

Microsoft.com wants me to update to SP1 on Windows7 , but I can't do that because it will mess up other installed softwares. How and where can I just install PowerShell 3.0 . I ready have PowerShell ...
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download a large file using multiple connections and PCs

I have three seperate computers, which I currently do not have an OS on. I also have three seperate internet connections with connection speeds of 256K, 512K and 1M. I would like to use all three of ...
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Different Internet Speeds [closed]

My family has an internet plan that is very old. We don't have the newer plans that have really fast internet speeds. Usually my download speeds are at 90 kb/sec. The highest download speeds that I ...
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Download stops at 99% and gives error

Some EXEs from our website are not downloading completely. (ex: "winmansoftware.com/files/WinmanCAERP_Update.EXE") Download completes 99% and gives error. But the same EXEs are downloading from ...
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AWS Ubuntu Server Causes Download PHP file

While development i have uploaded index.php.bak and tried to access the index.php from browser it was downloading the complete PHP file from server. I immediately deleted index.php.bak , but still ...
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IE8 cant download files

We have a windows xp machine running IE8, if it tries to download files the download either sticks @ 0% and nothing happens - no error, no progress bar - as if the download isnt starting at all. ...
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Valid download link for Microsoft's Linguistic Information Sound Editing Tool?

Does anyone have a valid link to download Microsoft's Linguistic Information Sound Editing Tool? I don't want to use C|Net, Softpedia's download link for download.microsoft.com is broken, and I can't ...
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Files don't show unless I relaunch Finder

I have an old G5. When I download a file, click, and select "Open in Finder", it sometimes doesn't show all the files until I "relaunch" Finder. Same thing with the trash: I can't see what was in ...
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How to download YouTube videos via HTTPS [duplicate]

I am unable to access YouTube on http. But I can access the same on an https. When I executed the command wget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJLvbPIvTw it returned the following response:- ...
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Where can I download Windows 8 Enterprise edition ISO image alone legally, from Microsoft?

I obtained a licence key for Windows 8 Enterprise 64 bit edition when I have MSDN subscription active. I forgot to download ISO image of Windows 8 64 bit Enterprise edition at that time. Recently I ...
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What is the best video format to download YouTube videos? [closed]

When trying to download a video from YouTube via an add-on in my web browser, I have the choice to download the video in Webm, FLV or MP4. Which one will give the best audio and video quality ...

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