How to resume a Download after connection lost

Started by supernoob, November 23, 2019, 02:41:52 PM

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supernoob

downloading a massive website.
Last night my connection got turned off, download was at probably 80%
had been downloading for almost two days at that point.

I would like to finish the download but not redownload everything I already have.
Is there any way to do this or am I screwed?

JustinFreitas

I'm in the same boat.  It keeps redownloading the files but they have a -1 suffix on the base filename (i.e. filename-1.ext).  I'm hoping that we can get a setting that will disable this behavior.

Richard Moss

Hello,

Thanks for the messages. WebCopy can download only missing/changed items if supported by the server and the project is configured correctly - you can see https://www.cyotek.com/support/kb/cyotek-webcopy/how-can-i-copy-only-changed-files-from-a-website for details. Unfortunately WebCopy can't rely just on files being present on your system to decide if something has been downloaded or not as the local filenames, while based on the remote URL's as much as possible, aren't binding and could be different.

Regards;
Richard Moss
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