I failed several times and ended up downloading exactly the same number of
bytes:  1,465,454KB (1.46GB), even for different versions of that file.

Is it possible that the files themselves are corrupted? Anyone successfully
downloaded one of these big files recently?

Rob

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Rob Giberson <[email protected]> wrote:

> You got that right. I am behind a company proxy. Any idea how to get this
> around?
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:09 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Rob Giberson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Guess this problem might be asked several (many) times before...but
>> >
>> > I tried to download the pages-articles.xml.bz2 file which is
>> approximately
>> > 5.xGB. However, all versions I tried failed at about 1.5GB. I noticed
>> > someone posted a Python code online as a workaround, but it did not work
>> for
>> > me.
>> >
>> > My machine is Windows Server 2008 64 bit. Any idea how to get this huge
>> > file?
>> >
>> > Appreciated.
>> > Rob
>> You wouldn't happen to have proxies between you and your internet
>> connection would you?
>>
>> -Peachey
>>
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