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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
