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[Guest]

Me again,
Somethimes when I download stuff the download says it is finished when it
has only done like 36 or 57% of the file/files.
Why is that?

 

[Ironhide]

someone told me that you mustn´t trust either time displays or percent
displays @windows. the time "lag" may depend on ram usage by other
programms.... the percent , he said, just don´t really trust it.

i dunno if he´s right... didn´t ever appear to me

 

[Guest]

I think it is because of a bad connection from the server you are downloading
from. Retry downloading, or try downloading from somewhere else or try
another time.

 

[pjp]

IE is idiotic in that respect. Seeing as I'm on a slow dialup connection. my
pc and the server I'm getting the file from "time-out".

IE should tell you what REALLY happened (least don't know why not) but
instead you end up with the "... Successful ..." dialog. Then you try to
open/run/whatever the file and it's "corrupted" because it's not all there.

Except for small files, I do all I can to get the download going within a
download manager that will resume where the data got "broken".