Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > "Uncle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I have a problem with subject. WGet tells me that "Continued download failed >>on this file, which conflicts with `-c'. Refusing to truncate existing >>file". How to solve this problem. >>System environment: Windows98 SE, VC++ 6.0, Wingate 4.2.0 proxy. > > That message indicates that the HTTP server does not support continued > downloading, which means that a new download would start from scratch. > However, you already had a file and you specified `-c', meaning you > want existing data intact. That is the "conflict".
That might have been the intended reason for this error message, but I have also seen it several times with HTTP servers that *did* support partial downloads. In my case it was on Unix platforms with wget versions >= 1.7. I usually then went back to a version 1.6, which I have kept for this and other special cases, and this always did the continued download without problems. Best Regards, Jochen Roderburg ZAIK/RRZK University of Cologne Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Tel.: +49-221/478-7024 D-50931 Koeln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany
