Mozilla Firefox "Hacker" / Help resuming download

introuble · 09-26-2005, 01:28 PM

Hello ! I was donwloading Gnome SlackBuild from Freerock using Mozilla Firefox when my Linux box crashed (it crashed twice actually) .. I had downloaded about 80% of the file by then .. I trieed resuming but for some reason I couldn't .. I tried editing the "download.rdf" file without luck (probably because I had no idea what I was doing .. and if someone has experience, please guide me:) ) ..

so .. this is what is found in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<string>.default/downloads.rdf: (related to the frg file I was downloading:)

Code:

 <RDF:Description RDF:about="file:///home/steven/data/dld/frg-0.2.2-2.10.2.iso"
                   NC:Name="frg-0.2.2-2.10.2.iso"
                   NC:DownloadAnimated="true"
                   NC:Transferred="70066KB of 344878KB">
    <NC:URL RDF:resource="http://citkit.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gsb/frg-0.2.2-2.10.2.iso"/>
    <NC:File RDF:resource="file:///home/steven/data/dld/frg-0.2.2-2.10.2.iso"/>
    <NC:DateStarted NC:parseType="Date">Tue Sep 27 04:31:44 EEST 2005 +407483</NC:DateStarted>
    <NC:DateEnded NC:parseType="Date">Tue Sep 27 03:13:26 EEST 2005 +679788</NC:DateEnded>
    <NC:DownloadState NC:parseType="Integer">0</NC:DownloadState>
    <NC:ProgressPercent NC:parseType="Integer">79</NC:ProgressPercent>
  </RDF:Description>

:-/ .. I have in "data/dld/" a file name frg-0.2.2-2.10.2.iso of 0 bytes and a frg-0.2.2-2.10.2.iso.part of > 200MB ..

If anyone could start a session of firefox, start downloading http://citkit.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...2.2-2.10.2.iso and as it downloads (doesn't need to download much .. just a few kilos or something) .. suddently close firefox (probably should set Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Download Manager History to remove files on successful download only ..) and then look in their ~/.mozilla/firefox directory .. there should be another directory of the form <string>.default , in which a file called "downloads.rdf" .. if anyone could print the contents of this file .. it would be grand !

Thank you for your attention ! I know it sounds like a lengthy task .. but it would sure help me by saving 5 hours of downloading (yep .. bad connection ..)

[Note: for some reason, I tried some stuff .. but couldn't manage to get Firefox to resume the dowload ..]

ilikejam · 09-26-2005, 01:52 PM

It's probably not Firefox's fault. Some servers don't support resuming.

I think you may be out of luck.

Dave