Questions tagged [download]
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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Download from http server all directories,files and subdirectories and so on
I want to download from remote http server all files directories,files and so on. I found some solutions to ftp server,but doesn't work to http. Until now no luck with wget -r or -m. It download all ...
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How to resume download of ipad firmware update [closed]
I have an iPad 2, and I would like to update to iOS 6. But every time I pause the download in iTunes, the download gets reset to zero kB. I don't have a stable internet connection, so it's impossible ...
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What happens if wget runs out of disk space?
I'm about to run wget to mirror a large website for offline viewing. I'm worried the site might be too large for my hard drive and my download getting screwed up. Is there any way for me to figure out ...
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How to download a live video from the internet
I would like to know how to download a live video from the internet,
My guess is that I could use downloadhelper.net or the Video DownloadHelper add-on. If not, how could I do that on Windows, Linux ...
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Who is throttling my download speed?
Some times when I start a file download (direct not p2p) I get download speeds way more than what was promised to me, but then it gradually decreases to a more (un)acceptable speed.
Is it the file ...
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Downloading R in Ubuntu Issues
I am trying to install R in Ubuntu 11.04. I tried to do this
in the Synaptics manager. However when I chose r-base-core, I got the following:
r-base-core: Depends: r-base-dev but it is not going ...
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HTTP downloads stall/hang after 1-5MB
I'm having a very strange problem with the shared network at the flat I've just moved into. It occurs on my Windows desktop and my Macbook, and it occurs on both the wifi and the ethernet.
Basically ...
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Where does Opera store the image or the video files it downloads from internet?
where does Opera store the image or the video files it downloads from internet?
Can I get the exact location on Windows 2003 Machine?
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How do I get rid of the Adobe Download Manager
Somehow I have got the Adobe Download Manager installed on my PC, and it opens up periodically. I don't know what triggers it.
How can I get rid of it?
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How to force iTunes to use an external hard drive for storage? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
how to redirect itunes to external hard drive
I want iTunes to store all downloaded files on an external hard drive. Is that possible? How would I do it?
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Browser/addon which shows what's been downloaded so far regardless of formatting and layout?
Every now and then a website becomes super-slow (but not broken) because there are too many people looking at it at the same time. When I try and view such a site, say with Firefox, I can see that it ...
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Is it possible to just deny download from TCP/IP?
I want to deny my Internet connection's download properties for all ports. I mean I want to only allow upload. Is it possible?
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The 32-bit Win 7 Trial can be downloaded but 64-bit cannot. Anyone see that same issue?
On
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx
the 32-bit Win 7 Trial can be downloaded but 64-bit cannot. Does anyone see that same issue?
Update:
I tried IE 8, FF 3.5, and ...
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When directly opening a download in Microsoft Edge, browser download files to some random location
I have configured my Edge to download every file to C:\Trashed:
and to Ask me what to do with each download. And this works just like charm, when I click Save as in the download dialog:
But when I ...
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How to download a list of URLs without using wget, only depth 1 (do not follow links) on Windows
On Windows 10, I am looking for software (or another way) to download a list of URLs, but only the initial page. For example say the landing page for www.example.com was index.html, do not follow any ...
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Laptop Energy Saving When Downloading
I have to download some VERY large files from Microsoft overnight for a few days as I am on a relative low download speed in the UK countryside.
However, I am concerned about the energy consumption ...
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Setup Windows update downloads in Windows 10
When checking for Windows Updates, most of time there are more than one available and in that case each update is downloaded in turn. When one download completes, another starts automatically.
In the ...
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Why do all the Linux ISOs I try to download seem to fail mid-transfer lately?
I've sat here for hours upon hours, repeatedly trying to download the ISO for Linux Mint from numerous of its mirrors. Servers from all over the world. They all stop halfways (not literally exactly ...
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Force a download via browser
I'm looking for a way to force a download on a URL you put in your browser (preferably your browser's address field but without hitting enter, so the URL doesn't get loaded first). This should work ...
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How to download this kind of embedded video?
I wanted to download this video, i tried chrome dev-tool to isolate the url.
Then searched it; but it showed me this
why i cant download this video? is there any alternate method?
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Downloaded mp4 file wont play under any video player
I downloaded a video using Youtube-dlg its was a HLS stream and it downloaded fully except Youtube-dlg told me there was an error when it finished..
I presume that the site i downloaded from made it ...
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Where is Downloads folder in WSL Ubuntu linux for Windows?
Hello I am trying to find Downloads folder of ubuntu can somebody loot at the this image and help me with locating the folder.
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Video over HTTP-can you tell if a video is being downloaded or it is being watched?
How can Youtube or Vimeo etc for example, tell that you are downloading a video rather than watching it?
What kind of HTTP request/headers is fired in each case?
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How to only download files beginning with a certain range of numbers?
I'm trying to download files from a numbered list on a website. The list goes up to 6179 items, but I want to start the download from item 4852.
I've tried the command:
wget -m -np -c -A "*[4852-...
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How to download mp3s from spotify (with premium subscription)
I was told that if I subscribe to spotify premium I would be able to download mp3s of all the songs they offer, however after signing up I can't find a "download" button anywhere. Was this just false ...
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Why does my internet not work when downloading big files? [closed]
When I am downloading files and they get to around 8MB/s, I have to throttle the connection down to at least 6MB/s in order to do anything else online, even regular web pages take soo long to load ...
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Microsoft Visual C++ repository
I had a program looking for MSVCR100.dll, which after some looking realized it
is a part of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010. I found a download here:
http://microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=...
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Editing downloaded file opened with "Open" instead of "Save"
A friend of mine needed to download a file and then edit it. She downloaded it through Edge, the "Open" or "Save" prompt came up, she clicked "Open" and it automatically opened the file in Word 2016. ...
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Change file name of after downloading file from wget
I was trying to download file from link http://ligman.me/VSpodw using wget.
but it saving the file name as VSpodw as last characters of url . but when i download same file with browser it changes its ...
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How to download a HTTPS website using username and password (For offline access)
I'm trying to download a complete video courses using my credentials from
https://mitprofessionalx.mit.edu
I have tried https://github.com/coursera-dl/edx-dl but it doesn't work for this site.
I ...
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Bulk download files from Google Drive from url list
I have a list of 100 urls that link to files on google drive that I want to download. Each url is like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8asdfasdfasd4YXc/view?usp=sharing
How can I download ...
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Download file from linux server once it is created
I recently started to work with Linux server, I am very new. My CUDA/C++ program solves 2D differential equation and writes down output every, say, 1000 time steps. It happens roughly every minute.
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What happens to a cancelled download in Chrome?
What happens to a download started in incognito mode when you cancel it? Does it get deleted? Or is there a temporary file somewhere?
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Can anything resume a download from a server (filetransfer.support.microsoft.com) that forces restarts? [duplicate]
Microsoft support are trying to send me a 1GB file. The problem is, their homespun file transfer service (filetransfer.support.microsoft.com) appears to be configured in a way which prevents downloads ...
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Tell wget to mirror the parts of an URI's path to folders
I have a list of URIs in a file uris.txt:
http://example.com/file1.pdf
http://example.com/file2.pdf
http://example.com/Folder/file3.pdf
http://example.com/Folder/Subfolder/file4.pdf
The ...
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Was my mozilla download corrupted after a system wake up?
I have a windows 7 OS with a mozilla firefox browser. I had a large ISO file being downloaded on it while I carelessly put the system in standby without pausing the download. Although the download ...
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Offline Downloading Windows Tools / SDK
Our strict proxy rules are not allowing downloads from microsoft, where a download Manager is provided. As an example i wanted to download the Windows SDK, it will download a 1MB File which then ...
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Office network bottleneck
At work our IP is the devil Comcast. When I do a speedtest I get a jump of upwards of 20Mbs and then it slowly goes down to average out at around 10Mbs. The upload speed stays at stead 2-3Mbs. My ping ...
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youtube-dl downloaded part of a video, gave an error, now says it has already downloaded the video
So I started a download from youtube with youtube-dl, it got about 600mb and quit with this error:
[http @ 003f7c80] HTTP error 403 Forbidden time=00:42:19.46 bitrate=2127.1kbits/s http://www.youtube....
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Problems That Could Arise From Using "Pirated" Windows (any version) Mounted/Burned, Gotten From Bittorrents? [closed]
Not to say that I would do such a thing, but let's say someone decided to use bittorrents to download a free copy of Windows operating system (any one of them at all).
What are, if any, some common ...
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How to download videos from MathWorks website? [duplicate]
There are a lot of free videos on MathWorks. For example this list. There are also a lot of free Webinars that are open to every one.
I do not have access to internet at all times. I would like to ...
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Download all images at distance 2 using Mac OS X
I need to download all the images from a website on my computer. The images are not listed all in one page. Instead I have an index page that links a set of pages (page1.html, page2.html, ...) each ...
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Error using Httrack for download a blog from a blogger site
I am traying to donwload one my blogs using Httrack. Every time I tried I got this error message:
**MIRROR ERROR!**
HTTrack has detected that the current mirror is empty. If it was an update, the ...
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Can't download from HP Website
I have a problem, and I have no idea where to start looking at a solution.
I have just installed a new copy of Windows 7 on a new computer, and I want to download drivers from HP Driver.
The problem ...
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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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Where and how can I download Adobe CS 5.5 and buy its licence?
Where and how can I download Adobe CS 5.5 and its licence? I can't seem to find it anymore? They only option Adobe forces on me is CS 6.
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How to download and activate original Microsoft Windows Profesional XP SP3
I have been given a laptop with the following characteristics:
Windows XP Proffesional SP3
No CD-ROM
a lot of viruses
I am not very familiar with the XP stuff but I need to install on it fresh ...
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Transfer a file from Server A to B, using your PC as terminal then turning off your PC?
I need to copy server-a.com/file.zip to server-b.com. Let's assume the file is really big.
Using my home PC, I SSH to server-b.com and type wget server-a.com/file.zip
How do you do it so that the ...
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How to Download Youtube Videos into different segments
I am aware of tons of Firefox Addons that enable downloading of Youtube videos. However, I am in a situation where my net connection frequently breaks and the download process is reset. I plan to ...
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When I download a text file in safari the results are displayed in the browser not sent to a file
When I download a text file in safari the results show up in the browser. In Chrome and FireFox the results are sent directly to a file on my computer. Is there a way to make Safari do that same ...
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