# Help me figure out video downloading on my iPad.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-video-downloading-on-my-ipad/615315>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-video-downloading-on-my-ipad/615315 "2012-03-09T19:47:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stelios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Stelios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stelios)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-video-downloading-on-my-ipad/615315/1 "2012-03-09T19:47:17Z")

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Hey gang, got a quick question. I was downloading an episode of The Wire this afternoon and when I checked the progress of the download it said 352 mgb downloaded, 8 mins 32 seconds remaining. Then, my iPad ran out of power. When I plugged it in, I checked the progress of the download again; 1.7 _kilobytes_ downloaded, 11937 mins remaining! That was five hours ago and it hasn’t budged. My Wi-fi is working perfectly fine. It’s just the video which has frozen.

Is it normal for iPad downloads to spontaneously restart when the power goes out? Or is this an anomaly I can fix.

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-video-downloading-on-my-ipad/615315/2 "2012-03-09T20:08:37Z")

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Just delete it and redownload.