On Friday 07 February 2003 04:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > et wrote: > >I have just started to try/use "d4x", mainly cause I heard it resumes > >downloads. I just had 27% of a iso downloaded, when I had to restart (had > > to get some info out of a winfax fax view file, so I "had" to reboot into > > win). anyway, when I restarted d4x, it had saved the info about the ISO > > file it was downloading, but it restarted from 0%, and what I want to > > know is how do I make sure it resumes and not restarts. I know it must be > > right in front of me, but I sure am blind to it. > > If you are liable to cutoffs be sure to type nt -r in a terminal or else it > will not reconnect to the website.kppp takes care of reconnecting toyour > isp . > > Did you "save" the url etc in home directory , sometimes dx4 looses your > download and you have to have what your downloading saved to make it > easy to re-establish again. > > I don't know why you lost your downloaded file, maybe it didn't find > the destination directory where you had your partially downloaded iso > and another file of similar name called segments. It is best to > periodically back them up before exiting d4x. That way if disaster strikes > you don't have > to start again. > > One word of warning be around at the end, cause if you are not it does not > exit the completed download well, the reconnect CL goes on trying to > re-establish > a new connection to your download website and then finds the download > completed and after so many attempts resolves the issue by wiping out > the entire file.No joke > when you have just spent 4 days downloading an iso file. > > John heck I could (and did) do all that with gftp, and other than throttleing the download speed, I guess I give it a go, but I don't like the end problem, I like the way Gftp handled that part. maybe I will stick with Gftp
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