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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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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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A program to download files from web to flash disks, Maintain resume data on the flash [closed]
Hi is there a windows downloading application that can be executed from a flash disk, begin downloading files from the web into the disk And lets me resume the download from another computer?
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Windows 8 firewall blocks browser downloads
I have a curious issue with the windows 8 firewall. When using chrome and internet explorer for hotmail I can't download word or pdf attachments. I also tried to download adobe reader with with ...
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How to download and install old version of Firefox
I'm trying to install an old version of Firefox from the following URL:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/16.0/
but it's a big list of files, I can't find an install file..
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When I try to download files with Google Chrome, it crashes the app on my Mac
Every single time I try to download anything or even add new add-ons to my Chrome Browser, it crashes the app and doesn't download anything. Even before the update to OS X 10.8 it wouldn't download ...
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How can I download stream videos with rtmp protocol? From Harvard Extension, more specifically
I don't know if this is a legit question, since it's my very first post on stackoverflow, but I've been having trouble downloading video lectures from Harvard Extension School. I said it might not be ...
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Keeping track of downloaded torrent files
I have approximately 300-400 torrent files stored locally. Some of them I have used to download the related torrents, while others I have not. I need a way to keep track of which ones have been ...
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Download a pdf from a website every 24 hours?
I recently found G24, a pdf that The Guardian updates regularly with news summaries, which I can then print out.
Is there a method to download said pdf every 24 hours? It has a static link, as they ...
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Estimated Time Left and Total File Size not showing up in Download
I am downloading Orcad Capture Lite software package from this official link.
I am using the Download Acceleration Plus software, even after over 350MB of the file has downloaded, I am still not able ...
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How can I download a file when I visit the website using an online proxy server?
How can I download a file when I visit the website using an online proxy server? I cannot visit some websites directly. I can browse the webpage using some web based proxy servers, but I cannot ...
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VPN problems over WiFi but NOT over LAN?
Occasionally I need to connect into work via VPN from my home. When I try to pull down a file (tens of MB) often the download will fail partway through when I use WiFi, but it rocks in with no ...
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How do I recover my download from Microsoft File Transfer Manager?
Last night I downloaded Visio 2013 Preview using the highly dubious MS File Transfer Manager* and when I checked this morning, the download had completed, but was marked as suspended, because FTM ...
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Disabling Google Chrome Download auto numbering for existing files
When I save a file (e.g. Images) to a folder which already exist there, Chrome adds a (N) where N is first available number.
This causes I have multiple copies of same file!
How can I disable Chrome's ...
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Error Downloading a File
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 ...
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What is a good download manager with a timer feature?
I live in South Africa where bandwidth is cheaper between midnight and 5am. Is there a good download manager that you can set to start downloading at a specific time? Preferably for use on Windows 7 ...
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Download a file over HTTP with Bash only?
How would one go about downloading a file from the command line using Bash but not Wget or Curl?
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Why don't they allow users to download stand alone package?
Usually I use yahoo messenger to chat when I have some free time to meet the people around the world and to come to know different cultures. But for the latest version of yahoo messenger I need to ...
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How to automate downloading files?
I got a book which had a pass to access digital versions of hi-res scans of much of the artwork in the book. Amazing! Unfortunately the presentation of all the these are 177 pages of 8 images each ...
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List of downloadable files on a website
Is there a way to list all the downloadable files on a specific website (even at a specific level say)?
My typical issue is: An author puts a preprint toto.pdf on his website, then the paper gets ...
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Preview large video while still downloading it in Skype
Is there a way to start watching partially downloaded video from Skype while it is still being downloaded? So far my experience was that as soon as I try to do that - Skype interrupts the download.
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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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Is it possible to download Visual Studio 2010 Updates?
When we change Windows we have to download all Visual Studio 2010 updates with Windows Updater and install them again.
Is it possible to download Visual Studio 2010 Updates in an installing pack ?
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Chrome extension to open file instead of download it to filesystem?
Is there a Google Chrome extension, app, hack or something that will add an option on the download dialog to Open the file right away, instead of having to download it to a specific place?
Thanks
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How to download / upload files from your nokia x6 mobile to PC using WLAN?
Can anybody please help me to connect to my Office PC where Pan Drive or disk is not allowed
We can only use WLAN connection, I am looking for a good software that help me to upload / download files ...
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Drag n drop file download in Windows 7
I am looking for a specific file download functionality. Hopefully I can explain it correctly.
Drag file download link to the open windows explorer folder. (Doing this currently only downloads the ...
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Is downloading multiple files faster than downloading one file at a time?
Sometimes there's a need to download multiple files from somewhere. The protocol I'm specifically interested in is HTTP, however this question is also relevant to FTP or any other non-P2P protocol for ...
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Is there a Firefox or Chrome plugin to automatically save images from webpage
A website has a slideshow of images, for example:This link
Since the slideshow is automatic, is there anyway to save those images automatically into a folder?
either by a browser plugin or by some ...
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Internet Explorer 8 error: “The file could not be written to the cache”
I try to download a PDF file using Internet Explorer 8. When I right click and save the file, it comes up with the error:
The file could not be written to the cache.
I have already gone to ...
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How do I download a folder that is at ftp://download.example.com
Going to that link shows me the folder and I can save the constituent files one by one...but How do I use an ftp client (like winscp for example) or something else to access the folder and just copy ...
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Bare bones HTTP server for linux with resumable file downloads
I have a Windows user I want to share a large file with, they have Firefox with I understand supports resumable HTTP file downloads, and I have Ubuntu Linux, but limited disk space and such, so I ...
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download multiple “php” links?
I can download all links in a web page with the extensions of pdf, zip, etc.
But one site has more than 50 links which ends like this:
"http://... ... /showDocument.php?DocumentID=121"
"http://... ...
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Periodically download a file from web in Windows 7
I have a HTTP URL of a file. Is there a simple way to schedule a periodic download of that file (say, every 24 hours) to a certain location on disk, thus overwriting the previous version?
Possibly ...
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How to disable file download popup in Internet Explorer?
I was able to disable file download popup in all popular browsers except Internet Explorer.
This is the popup:
I thought this would do it, but I still get the popup:
Internet Explorer > Tools > ...
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Why do chm files that I have downloaded sometimes say that the address is not valid?
Why sometimes, I can't view the content of the chm files which I downloaded? It gives me something like this when I open it.
The address is not valid
Most likely causes: There might be a
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Simple downloader
I would like to send an iso image for a friend. Normal IE download doesn't work, she has an instable and slow internet connection.
A dedicated downloader application would be perfect. She starts an ...
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Need a download manager for Ubuntu over network
I am trying to download a 22gb file over a slow vpn connection. The file is not hosted so what I did was just "connect to remote server" via Ubuntu, navigate to the directory where the file is and ...
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How can I determine the origin of a downloaded file?
Is there a way to determine what the original source or link was for a previously downloaded file, other than using the browser's download history?
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Windows 7 Desktop Eats Files & Folders & Then Burps Them Back Up Again
This issue started a month or two ago and it has vexed me ever since. Whenever I download a file from IE or FF, or save an attachment from Outlook 2010 and save to my desktop the file does not show up ...
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is software-search.net ethically clean
While browsing, that is, to be more exacty, while searching
for a possibility to download visio, I came across
http://www.software-search.net/shop/search/?s=Microsoft+Office+Visio .
Now, I have sort ...
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something better than httrack to download files?
I am trying to download documents (pdf, tiff, images) from webpages that have javascript and frames in them. example: http://127.0.0.1/web/guest/en/websys/webArch/mainFrame.cgi
'httrack --get-files' ...
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download file using samba
dear all..
i have a LAN network..
i want download some file at another PC(windows).
i will download that file from my PC (linux ubuntu).
someone tell me that i better use samba..
can you tell how to ...
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Increasing download speed by using multiple IP addresses? - Ubuntu
quite often sites limit download speed per ip address or identified user.
Is it possible to use a tool such as wget in order to overcome this limitation?
Ideas would be great.
