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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Downloading the google drive backups from the Backups folder
In my google drive I have a folder called Backups. In the Backups folder I have 2 backups. How do I go about downloading these 2 files onto a local backup external drive so I can delete the backups ...
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How to download video with JW Player blob url?
I am looking for a solution for downloading videos embedded using JW Player Blobs in web pages.
I have seen some answers for twitter/vimeo/other blob situations but not seen an answer to JW Player ...
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Can’t download Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
I am trying to install Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). The traditional way just going to the Mac App Store it s not working ( I tried several times (5times) and the download it’s ALWAYS stopping at 1....
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download video with blob url but there is not m3u8 playlist
I have a video URL (https://www.time4education.com/my/videotest.php?videoid=a7df487a87424bf3b4a6c6768fe96c78) extracted from chrome's Developer's tools.
the video address is blob file but i couldn't ...
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cURL: curl: (18) transfer closed with 96671047906 bytes remaining to read
I am trying to download a very massive file (~92Gb) using cURL:
curl -L -o 'file.tar.gz' -C - http://abc.dummy/file.tar.gz
and constantly getting into:
curl: (18) transfer closed with ... bytes ...
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How do I get Chrome to open local SVG files instead of downloading?
Much like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21531061/image-url-downloads-the-image-instead-of-displaying-it I have a Chrome browser that refuses to display local SVG files rather than dowloading ...
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Firefox 32: Download fails; cannot read from source
I'm running Firefox 32, and am currently unable to download files. This is the error message I get, for every single download:
C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\Ch+rOsoW.pdf.part could not be ...
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Chrome: how to open with system viewer by default?
Google Chrome used to open PDFs downloaded to the hard drive using the system's default PDF viewer by default. Recent versions of Chrome use Chrome's (inferior) built-in PDF viewer by default even ...
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"Source file could not be read" error when downloading a file with Firefox
I am attempting to download a file with Firefox and I see this error:
C:\Users\Lynda\Desktop\Sample.psd.zip.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.
Try again later, or ...
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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 ...
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How to automatically close blank download popup in Chrome?
When I download a file in Chrome, a blank popup window appears and I have to manually close it each time. Is there a way to have Chrome automatically close this blank window?
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How to fix extremely slow Microsoft Store downloads?
I recently helped set up a new computer with Windows 11 (preinstalled), and while it went rather smoothly, there's a problem that the Microsoft Store is downloading and installing extremely slowly: It ...
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How to download a file at an url that returns a "206 Partial Content" response?
Let's say that I'm listening to an audio file online by pointing my web browser to some url https://someurl.fr/file.oga.
So the file isn't embedded in a page, but is accessed directly by the browser.
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Download video with blob url
I'm not an expert of html code. I need to download a video from the webpage
https://www.telegranducato.it/2018/07/21/tg-toscana-del-21-07-2018-edizione-delle-2030-granducato-tv/
Unfortunately the ...
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How do I get Chrome to play a WAV file?
I'm using the following version of Chrome on Mac High Sierra
Version 62.0.3202.94 (Official Build) (64-bit)
When I download a .WAV file from my Gmail, I click on the file title as it appear at the ...
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Local buffer for downloads directly to network drive
Apologies if this is a very trivial question. I'm intending to use a Windows platform to download several large files from the internet directly to another networked location (web-based network drive, ...
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Make wget convert absolute links along with relative links
I'm trying to back up a site using wget. Currently I'm running
wget -p --mirror --html-extension --convert-links http://www.example.com`.
--convert-links behaves just as expected with some links, ...
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403 when downloading from cloudfront with wget (after 302)
I'm trying to download file from cloudfront. It is a file archive from scala-sbt website.
When using browser (Chrome) everything is ok. Basically the flow looks like:
https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/...
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How do I open a source code file in Chrome?
Some files, like txt can be opened in Chrome. How do I open py files that are linked on the page, and prevent them from bringing up the download dialog box?
Like this, for example http://matplotlib....
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Downloading files using Chrome console
I'm new to this (and i don't speak English).
I want to download a bunch of mp4-files, I know the location of each file but I don't want to open and "right-click-save-as" for each file. Is there a way ...
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Resumable download setup across computers connected via the internet?
Like the question says, I want a solution to download large files across computers on the net, and I want to do it across multiple sessions so the download should be resumable. The host computer runs ...
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How to increase retention of download history in Firefox?
Whenever I want to find a file that I remember downloading in Firefox download history, I fail unless it was very recent. It seems to remember about 30 items or so.
I don't think this history takes ...
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How to fix Vagrant using invalid URL when trying to download 35-cloud-base box?
nix-shell:\~/keylime-vagrant-ansible-tpm-emulator\]$ vagrant -v
Vagrant 2.2.19
nix-shell:\~/keylime-vagrant-ansible-tpm-emulator\]$ vagrant up --provision
Bringing machine 'keylime-fedora1' up with '...
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Chrome fails to download files to some locations
After updating to Ubuntu 22.04, I can't download files from Chrome to some of the locations in my OS / external drive. However, Firefox works as expected for the same downloads.
What happens? After ...
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How to download video from embedded Vimeo blob link in webpage?
I'm trying to download a video that contains a blob:https://player.vimeo.com/XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX link. I've tried other options that have been explained on the site, but none have ...
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How to prevent auto delete partially download file on fail using chrome?
When I download something from the chrome browser (or Chromium, Brave, etc), it's will create a temporary file with extension .crdownload. When the download completed it's will be renamed to real file ...
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I can't stop Windows 10 from compressing files when I download
I can't stop Windows 10 from compressing files upon download. I have gone into the command line (right click and run as administrator) and done
fsutil behavior set disableCompression
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wget doesn't find a existing file (ftp)
I have proftpd on my server. I'm not totally sure its config is perfect, but something I can't understand :
$ LC_ALL=en ls -l useradd.LDAP.tar.gz
ls: cannot access 'useradd.LDAP.tar.gz': No such file ...
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How can I download a PDF file from Google Drive?
I've got this PDF file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9gthSy-Vhepdm5YYlc0dk9XUHc/view I'd like to download it to my computer. Is there a way to do that?
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Chrome 65 download security bug/error
I wanted to download a signature file from a trusted source.
It is normal that this little warning pops up, but normally there is a button to accept the download.
But since i use Chrome 65 there is ...
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Opera makes scoped_dir* folders in the Downloads folder
When I download an executable file on Opera, and then launch the file via the Downloads menu, Opera generates a scoped_dir* folder with * being a bunch of random numbers. I can't figure out how to ...
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Why do browsers download the image when you hit save, rather than copying it from cache?
This is true for almost all browsers. If a large image (.jpg) has been fully loaded and displayed it means the file has already been downloaded on to user's computer, right? So saving it should be a ...
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Server download speed varying depending on location
I'm wondering how it's possible that download speeds vary so much depending on location.
Here are test dedicated servers:
https://10gbps.io/datacenters they offer various test download files. They ...
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Google Play Books not downloading
I'm viewing free books on Google Play Books from my Windows 10 Laptop and Chrome browser but some books are not downloading. The three vertical line menu doesn't have the download option for some of ...
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How to download similar pages?
There is a website that has pdf book or article inside it. for example
https://example.com/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=mdp.39015015603924;orient=0;size=100;seq=1;attachment=0
and the other pages ...
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Which Linux driver should I download for my AMD Radeon R6?
I have a Dell laptop with a AMD Radeon R6 graphics card.
The download's site for AMD drivers (http://support.amd.com/en-us/download) let's you either automatically detect and download the correct ...
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BackgroundTaskHost and SearchProtocolHost are downloading heavyly in the background
I am using Windows 10, recently I noticed my windows box has downloaded hundreds of gigabytes in a week, I installed NetBalancer to get network traffic statistics.
I noticed BackgroundTaskHost.exe, ...
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Is there a way to download wikipedia pages programmatically?
I'd like to download some Wikipedia pages as part of a program. Currently I would go to the pages on a browser, click "Download as PDF" manually, wait for it to render, then download it, then rename ...
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Is there a way to associate to a file the website URL where it was downloaded from?
I'm using Ubuntu and trying to find a way to associate the URL of the website where a file was downloaded to that file. According to what I've researched so far the URL can be stored using extended ...
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Want Mathematica (instead of CDF Player) to launch by default when accessing .nb files over the Web
I have both Mathematica and CDF Player installed on my machine. I'm trying to access a Mathematica notebook over the Web and want Mathematica to launch when clicking on the link.
Instead, the file ...
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Why SDM gives error while downloading from dream spark periodically?
I've been trying to download Windows 8.1 for a week.Every time i start a download, it stops at 15-20% and gives the following error:
"The download cannot be completed. If a location selection is ...
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How to resume wget mirroring from a different location?
I am out of space in my home folder , where iam currently mirroring this site for the pupose of a cygwin installation in my windows machine using wget from my linux machine.
i am aware that i can ...
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How can I download a small section of a long Youtube video?
I need to download about 30 seconds from the end of 50 different 30-minute long videos. Is there any way to do this without downloading the whole of each video?
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Can't download anything anymore
I am on the laptop of my parents in law and the problem is that I can't download anything. The most recent chang is that the name of the computer was changed. Webbrowser: IE9. If I want to download ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials: keep download scans but disable local activity scans
In Microsoft Security Essentials, I used to disable "Monitor file and program activity on your computer" but enable "Scan all downloads." Now, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSSE) 4.0 removed the ...
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Rename all downloaded files to their comment
FlashGet Download Manager has a 'Use Comment' feature for renaming the downloaded file to its comment text.
But is there any solution for renaming all downloaded files to their comment text at the ...
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What data is sent when downloading a file?
I recently downloaded XCode. The file size is 1.7 GB. In Activity Monitor, it indicated while downloading, that my upload speed was basically 50% of my download speed for the entire duration of the ...
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Using Coojah + Blader (but any download manager any) to resume the download
I have to keep switching download managers. First, I was using VLC media player to download mms, and then I started using Coojah (with Blader) to download an RTMP stream, and then I don't know what I ...
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Why does the Firefox download dialog sometimes lose focus?
When I'm clicking a link to start a download, sometimes the main window steals the focus from the download dialog. This is extremely annoying for me as I have a habit of pressing enter to get to the "...
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Firefox is changing file extensions on downloads
Today I downloaded a .reg file, and Firefox made it a .reg.txt file. I downloaded a .zip file and Firefox made it a .zip.htm file. Both files worked fine when I fixed the extensions. What happened ...
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