After my recent post about Firefox Annoyances: Download Resume Problems I observed that some of my readers were trying to find out how to resume their half-downloaded files in firefox/iceweasel. Sorry, the Firefox / Iceweasel doesn't yet continue half-downloaded between network failure or crashes. However you can try this alternative method.
Here is how you can continue the download from a crashed firefox / iceweasel using wget. First lets get rid of '.part' extension that the browser adds while downloading.
mv BigFile.zip.part BigFile.zip
Now resume/continue the download with wget's "-c / --continue" option.
wget --continue http://www.SomeSite.com/files/BigFile.zip
Nice, I tried it. My file complete to download but was corrupted.
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ReplyDeleteAwwwee That does happen sometimes. Also note that not all servers support partial content HTTP requests.
Great tip!
ReplyDeletethank you SO MUCH! what a great hack!
ReplyDeleteGreat tip. Thanks!!!
ReplyDeleteOne little thing - the example is a bit confusing. It says:
wget's "-c / --continue" option.
In debian/ubuntu, it is:
wget -c http://remotesite/filename
Awesome! Until now I was fiddling with the รง%&/( firefox download manager. From now on I will use your little trick!
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome ... It just saved my ridiculously slow loading 3.4 GB file from some 50kb/s server. You sir are a saver!
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