Thanks for the response Dennis.
I've been through this more carefully now and noted down the exact
steps that happen (I'm not on build #1335 now but build #1346, if that
makes a difference):
1. File key is added to download queue.
2. Image files (e.g. .jpg .gif .png etc.) complete as normal and can
be saved/downloaded to disk in the usual way.
3. Files of any other type (e.g. .rar .mpg .avi .zip etc.) complete,
but are dropped into a section marked "Failed downloads: unknown type
application/octet-stream (1)"
4. I click 'Restart download' and the file returns to the download
queue.
5. File completes and is listed in section "Completed fetches to
temporary space"
6. If I click on the filename, Freenet still complains that it is an
unknown filetype, but I can at least usually force a download as a
text file at this point, and give it the correct file suffix
afterwards (remove the .txt)
I guess my first question is "why do the files have to be downloaded
twice?" Leaving aside the reason why Freenet doesn't recognise the
file type, why can I not override this and get hold of the data that
Freenet has presumably got stored somewhere, instead of being forced
to put it back in the download queue all over again, just so I have to
force it to download as a text file the second time?
Second, how can I tell Freenet about certain filetypes? This never
used to be a problem, so I really don't know what has happened, but
surely if Freenet is complaining about a file type it doesn't
recognise, there must be a way to 'teach' it about them so that it
doesn't complain in the future?
thanks
Ian
On 19 Jan 2011, at 12:00pm, support-requ...@freenetproject.org wrote:
Are you trying to download to disk? If you go to your downloads page,
in the "failed downloads" section -- if you check the checkbox of the
failed download, and also make sure the "disable content filter"
checkbox is checked, then click the "restart download" button for that
download, does it not restart downloading?
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