Hi,

Today I was download a 1.9gb with DownThemAll for Firefox, using Wifi so it was pretty slow...

Anyway, I got to 500mb, then I had to go away so I paused it and put my PC into standby - and when I came back and resumed it, I went to install a game that was in the same folder as where I was downloading, and I saw a dtapart file of the one I was downloading, which showed as 1.9 gig! But in the downloader it says it is only 500mb downloaded...

Why is it showing this? Is this just because that is how big it WILL be?

Thanks,

sv

Is it possible to resume that dtapart? If it is, I have never been able to find out how.

Downloads from most sites can be resumed; if you're talking about GOG specifically you'll need to feed in a new source URL by initiating a download and copying the link it generates and then putting that into the existing download. I'm not sure how this works with DownThemAll since I don't use it myself.

Ah, yup, thanks dude.

Just out of curiosity, how does it make the computer think that the file is that big? Or does it just fill it with random junk? :D As far as I know, you can resume it as long as it is in the Manager thingy, but once it is out of there you cannot, at least not from the dtapart bit. I think.

Btw - hello from a fellow NZ'der! :)

Thanks for the info, guys.

as far as i know the program designates certain sectors from the drive as in use so OS knows not to use them, so while there isn't any actual data of any kind written to those sectors, OS still recognizes all of them in use, hence the 500mb showing as a 1,9gb file.