On Friday 07 February 2003 01:06 pm, et wrote: > 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
GFtp and Konqueror are both capable of resuming. With Konqueror you use "Window" to split windows either horizonatlly or vertically then click one of them and put the URL to a download site. Now drag what you want to the other window and click "Copy" If anything from a power failure to a ctrl-alt-backspace interferes and the remote site is capable of resuming (not all are), then if you set up the download again, Konqui will ask you whether you want to restart or resume. Last I looked, d4x was not GPL. You could not modify or distribute modified copies, which is a shame since it is a wonderful coding job in C++. Civileme
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