Resuming Downloads (was Re: Displaying an alert box)
Resuming Downloads (was Re: Displaying an alert box)
- Subject: Resuming Downloads (was Re: Displaying an alert box)
- From: Anne Laux <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:51:05 -0700
on 10/15/01 12:45 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff at email@hidden wrote:
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At 11:31 -0700 10/15/01, Scott Herz wrote:
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> Just so everyone knows (I didn't at first) is that ADC's FTP servers
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> support the resumption of downloads. I don't know how OmniWeb does
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> it (or if it does it), but in IE, double clicking on an unfinished
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> download causes it to resume.
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Omniweb doesn't seem to do it, or at least I was too angry to look
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overly for it ;-)
I have no idea if OmniWeb supports ftp resumes or protocol helpers, however
if you configure IE to use an FTP client like Interarchie or Transmit you
should have no troubles....at least in the area of not having to abandon
partial downloads. I can't speak to any other issues.
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What you say works only if you try resuming immediately, and have
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accessed the ADC web page in the last 10 minutes. Otherwise the ftp
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password becomes invalid, and you have to login again, get a new one,
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and start downloading from the beginning.
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After my download was aborted, I started downloading the 19-segment
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version of the Tools. Every segment took me between 30 and 40 minutes
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(on a modem... remember modems? ;-)), so unless I remembered to
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reload the web page every 5 minutes or so, resuming wasn't an
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option...
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Suppose you are using Interarchie as your ftp helper app for IE (which you
can set in preferences:protocol helpers). Then suppose that you start a
download of a large file on Tuesday night and by Wednesday morning your ISP
cut off before your download was finished. You have a partial download
sitting on your desktop. Double clicking that download would try to resume
downloading, however your ADC FTP password has expired, so it doesn't work.
Here's what you should do (this worked for me):
Log into MemberSite again. Go to Software Download and click download on the
item that you only partially downloaded. Interarchie will open and provided
that your download location hasn't changed, it will simply pick up where it
left off with your partial download.
And...this works across servers too, so if the USA server goes down before
your download is complete, you can finish your download from the Japan
server (or whichever).
Hope this helps save you some time!
-Anne