Firefox is frustrating the heck out of me. I had three downloads fail because of disk space. :mad: I freed up the space. Then right clicked the failed file and selected retry. The silly ass thing is totally redownloading!!!
I know darn good and well the file had to be in the temp folder. All it has to do is copy the file from Temp to my DL folder. Why in the world is this crazy thing wasting another half hour (per file) downloading all over again?
Is there some way to recover a download in Firefox?
I hadn’t closed the browser. The Temp Files go to C:\ my download directory is E:\TempDL E: is the drive that I had to clear space.
Firefox left the partial file in my DL folder. It’s about 90% there.
4-8b8bd.zip.part
But, I don’t see any option to restart the DL using the file. A 90% zip file is useless.
I’m not sure why firefox is putting the temp dl file in my DL folder. I thought it would have used the regular Temp folder on C: ? By doing it this way, I need double the free space on the drive with my DL folder. No wonder I ran out of space.
I suffered though redownloading the file. Got my zip. But also have the .part file that didn’t succeed earlier tonight. I’m manually deleting them to free up my space.
Concur - this is particularly true when there’s any kind of clickthrough process that needs to be navigated before you get to the file - without this, the server might perceive the request as a hotlink.
I was hoping by now there was a way to restart a dl. I hadn’t considered the issue of the server. Unless it cooperates there’s nothing firefox can do. It has to start over from the beginning.
I had three dl’s going. Each one thought I had enough free disk space. Add up the three and I didn’t. Cost me nearly 2 gig of quota on my usenet server.
Yeah, Firefox will normally resume a download if it can. Heck, even Internet Explorer does that now. Since it also has the ability to pause, and servers are faster and will actually max out my connection now, I no longer use a download manager.