I was downloading a 650 mb file and when it was at 99% it closed. Before when I had this file at 50% it closed but I was able to retrieve it and I dont know how I did it. If someone could help me with how I could retreive the download at that percent, I would be grateful.
well you should have used a download manager that allowsu to retrive broken downloads, pause etc, especially when you are downloading such big files.
with a relevent title in a relevent forum perhaps? Nm, we were all n00bies once. if it didnt complete its not written to disk iirc
Its written to a temp folder, thats why after a really big download you see the little copy window pop up and shift it to where ever you told it to save to
ok ... here goes .. i d/l large files quite often .. and i DO NOT use one of those stupid DL managers. all you have to do is : 1: make IE's cache at least twice the size of the biggest file you DL 2: only DL one at a time 3: defrag regularly (at least once a month, whether you use fat or ntfs 4: dont do anything that taxes your connection or your hd activity till the dl is done. i have a tendancy to download very large zips (up to a gb each) 2 at a time. so i set my internet cache to ~4 gb ... that way if one breaks, i can usually resume it no problem, unless i have to reboot ... having lots of ram helps too .. at least 512, 1024 is better. and having the hard drive that the file is gonna write to be the only device, on its own controller, can help aviod errors too .
tk421 has the force, certainly for IE6, not tested with other browsers. I've found IE will often resume at the break after you've lost the connection if you go straight back, do not pass go, do not collect £200, just re-download.
