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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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Download manager applications for a password protected site [closed]

I have a site with htaccess password protected directory. I have the login to this but my download manager doesn't support password protected sites. Jdownloader is said to support it but it doesn't ...
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How Do I Troubleshoot Corrupt Downloads

I won't try to get this all documented in this first post, as I am sure you folks will have a ton of questions for me. I am having problems with my home LAN. For several weeks I have been having ...
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py appended to filename when saving files

I have firefox upgraded to 9 and then 10. Q installed on ubuntu lucid. Now when I save an htm file it gets saved as xx.htm.py. When an image is saved it is saved as xxx.jpg.py. Same thing happens ...
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what could tiny files with the hard drive icon be?

My browser (google chrome) seems to be downloading files which i didn't mean to, they come up on the downloads bar with the icon for a hard drive, but they're only ~50 kb so far it's done: ...
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How to set a default file extension for a specific download?

I'm using chrome web browser and when I download a file it saves the file with .jsp extension. Everytime I have to change the extension to my desired extension (i.e. .ica). Just setting the default ...
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EXE file package repair

I downloaded a large EXE file, but when I try to install it, during the installation process an error message said that some components are corrupted or missing, although the software is compatible ...
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Downloading data from remote server

hey guys, i have a dedicated remote server, where i have downloaded a file say of 1GB, now i want to place the file directly inside my local folder, now problem is i cannot download the same file from ...
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proxychains browser unable to download and open files

Ubuntu 10.10, Midori 0.2.4 browser (same problem with Epiphany 2.30.2, haven't tried with Firefox or Chrome as yet) Proxychains-3.1 installed, working fine. Here is the deal: when NOT proxychained, ...
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Recover open but deleted file on Linux using ln instead of cp

Say I have a file that's downloading (from a source that's hard to re-download from), but accidentally deleted from the filesystem namespace (/tmp/blah), and I'd like to recover this file. Normally I ...
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Download folders from dev server to local drive

I am developing a .net web application on a local environment. I have a dev server that the application is installed on. Within the web application on the dev server I have four folders that I dont ...
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Resume big files without FTP access, howto?

What is the best way to download this update? Last time it was stopped in the middle and resuming seems not possible with Internet Explorer. Any better way?
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How to download files from command line?

For example, see this page Advanced Linux Programming. I want to download all the pdf files linked from this page. Is there a simple commandline way of doing it? Something on the lines of download ...
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How can I download a file from a SSH session (without using sftp)

I know I can use sftp user@host .... But what I want is to download a file from the existing session. that is. ssh user@host ... do some work ... The main problem I have is that said file is ...
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Why does wget download specific files, but can't download them all at once?

I am using Windows XP and am trying to use wget to download all the pictures (and some other files) from my website which is going to be closed on a host in about two weeks (so I need to hurry). I ...
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Cannot download any file from Internet

From this morning cannot download any file from Internet with any browser. I am sure that there is not any virus because I have MS Defender and MS Security Essentials with last updates. My MS Windows ...
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How to download a URL as a file?

A website URL has "hidden" some MP3 files by embedding them as Shockwave files, as follows. <span class="caption"><!-- Odeo player --><embed ...