Comments on: Google Chrome Cancels Paused Downloads

By: mister tony

mister tony — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:35:03 +0000

wow i was downloading a 1.6gb file at 30kb/s for like 10 hours and it was at 1.3 gb then my internet crapped out and after resetting my cable modem and router the internet is restored and i found out that the entire file is now useless and i have to redownload it. F*CK you google CHROME

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:20:49 +0000

It is hard to see in my post but it is double switch continue (two hyphens)

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:20:10 +0000

I was downloading dat files from Aion open chinese beta. Chrome actually said the download was complete (all 5 files were roughly 30% short of complete).

I said F it and cp’ed the incomplete files to my linux file server and used wget to download the files.

Like this:

$ wget –continue http://www.url.com/path/file.01

wget was able to continue the downloads that Chrome cancelled. Pretty lucky for me considering the files are 1.9gb each.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:53:52 +0000

i was… am downloading Fedora XD

By: mbarry

mbarry — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:30:47 +0000

Whoa what a coincidence I was downloading KuBuntu as well.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:31:39 +0000

Wow the irony…

i am using chrome and have the exact same problem. every time i close chrome, my 700MB ubuntu iso file is cancelled. doh

By: Reza

Reza — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:58:06 +0000

That is a valuable lesson my friend and oddly enough I was in this exact same situation, not five minutes ago, with the 692MB Linux Kubuntu Desktop ISO.

I do have FireFox installed on my OS, although I rarely use it so I’m not thoroughly familiar with all of its features, such as the resumable downloads. Thank you for the useful tip.