In this post, I am going to teach you all, on how to resuming downloads which are stuck half way through, or crashed due to some network or server problem, from where it crashed. This is being an old 'popping-a-vein-in-your-forehead' problem with the direct downloads, we perform in our browsers. Its really frustrating when you are trying to download a huge file say 500 MB - 2 GB, and it crashes half way and then doesn't resumes, and then the only thing left for you is starting the download all the way from the start.
But no more. In this post I'll show you how to conserve the data that you have already downloaded and use it for further download, when using Firefox (I am not sure about other browsers like chrome etc yet, I have tested this trick in firefox so am recommending ff only).
Another thing to note in this trick is, this will work only on Windows OS, because we will need a little bit coding in Batch (.bat) as you will read further. So Mac. Linux etc users, better turn around from here only, sorry :-p
Soo here is the trick:
Suppose we are trying to download a 100mb file named 'file.exe', the name is 'file' and its extension is '.exe', you have to notice the filename and extension of the file you are downloading carefully in order to get this trick correct.
And now suppose our download is now stuck/crashed at some point, lets say at 45mb, i.e., at 45%.
Step 1:
Saving the 'part' file:-
a) In case the download is stuck, then there should be a part-file at the destination where you are downloading your file (file.exe) named 'file.exe.part'. A part file is a file where the current downloaded data/progress is saved and then converted into your actual file, and this whole trick revolves around this part-file only. Copy the part-file to some other folder, so that we can use it at later point, and then just cancel the download from the manager of the browser.
But no more. In this post I'll show you how to conserve the data that you have already downloaded and use it for further download, when using Firefox (I am not sure about other browsers like chrome etc yet, I have tested this trick in firefox so am recommending ff only).
Another thing to note in this trick is, this will work only on Windows OS, because we will need a little bit coding in Batch (.bat) as you will read further. So Mac. Linux etc users, better turn around from here only, sorry :-p
Soo here is the trick:
Suppose we are trying to download a 100mb file named 'file.exe', the name is 'file' and its extension is '.exe', you have to notice the filename and extension of the file you are downloading carefully in order to get this trick correct.
And now suppose our download is now stuck/crashed at some point, lets say at 45mb, i.e., at 45%.
Step 1:
Saving the 'part' file:-
a) In case the download is stuck, then there should be a part-file at the destination where you are downloading your file (file.exe) named 'file.exe.part'. A part file is a file where the current downloaded data/progress is saved and then converted into your actual file, and this whole trick revolves around this part-file only. Copy the part-file to some other folder, so that we can use it at later point, and then just cancel the download from the manager of the browser.
