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01-30-2006, 06:44 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 28
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Resuming a Download Whit Firefox
ok alright, on my windows parition i was downloading a very large file and well, like microsoft does, it crashes, so now i'm stuck whit 83% of my 4 hour download whit the .part file and the other one. dunno how to resume my file
need help please and quick if possible
Thank you
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01-30-2006, 08:25 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: San Jose, CA
Distribution: Debian, Arch
Posts: 8,507
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In most cases, firefox will try to resume if you click on the same link and the two files do exist.
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01-30-2006, 08:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 28
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no it doesnt, it only downloads another copy of it
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01-30-2006, 08:37 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: San Jose, CA
Distribution: Debian, Arch
Posts: 8,507
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Are you certain that the server supports resume?
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01-30-2006, 09:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 28
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eh..damn i' still a noob concerning server stuff
not sure and i dout it, thanks for the help anyway, found what i was looking for on a torrent
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01-30-2006, 10:07 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: North America
Distribution: Kubuntu 7.04 - Feisty Fawn
Posts: 296
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If it crashed, then you won't be able to resume as Firefox can't yet resume downloads across sessions.
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