This is likely your company proxy not supporting huge downloads. Might be
its cache partition got filled up.

Marco

2009/12/15 Rob Giberson <[email protected]>

> 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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