Questions tagged [download]
Downloading is the process of receiving digital data from another computer, either over a local-area-network or a wide-area-network (i.e. the internet).
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Download file via sftp in one go
I have a 6 Mb file that I need to download via sftp. Problem is that the filesystem I want to download to doesn't allow writing to existing files. Meaning that if the file is downloaded in chunks it ...
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Brave Browser Preemptively Downloading Files?
Sometimes, when I was downloading large artifact archives from a gitlab project (~500 MB) in my Brave Browser I was positively surprised when it was partially done already from the start (varying from ...
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Can a website serve only a subset of glyphs from a font, instead of the entire a font, on loading?
There's this Quartz article on how Chinese fonts are made with this curious claim:
This has been possible for a number of years, but Chinese always posed a particular problem: with so many glyphs, ...
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aria2: Using multiple connections; and using 'show-files' without downloading '.torrent' file first
I try to understand the basics how aria2 works and I have two questions.
In one article I read:
To download a file using more than one connection to each host, use
aria2c -x2 http://site.com/file.zip
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The Downloads folder is not updated
The problem appears on Windows 10 in Chrome and Firefox browsers. Reproduction steps:
Open the Downloads folder in Explorer.
Download any file in the browser.
Open the list of downloads in the ...
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Retrieve all ZIPs from specific site subdirectory
I'm trying to retrieve the *.ZIP files from this Zophar.net Music section, specifically the NES console. The files are freely downloadable per each game separately, which will be a huge time sink to ...
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Torrenting unbearably slow in Deluge
My Deluge client is consistently getting less than 1.0K/s on all torrents it is downloading
There aren't very many peers on each torrent even though the website says >100 on every torrent... Why is ...
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Set custom accept headers in Firefox
I don't like *.webp images, mostly because Firefox keeps downloading them rather than just displaying them, but also when I do want to download the image, I intend to feed it to other software, which ...
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How can I cancel all file downloads at once in Chrome?
How can I cancel all file downloads at once in Chrome? I use Chrome with Windows.
I didn't find the option:
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How to find download url from a given website to be used in wget?
I try to obtain a publicly available historical document from an archive in Germany, however, the download never starts as I believe the PDF file is too big to be downloaded within a certain time, so ...
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Image download is blank but <canvas> element displays correct
I have web application which uses WebGL to draw some stuff onto a <canvas> element. The problem is that when I right click on it and choose Save image as..., the resulting download is blank.
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How can I download a url that contains left and right quotes with Wget?
I'm trying to download a file from a url with Wget on Windows 7, which contains boath left and right quotes. It could look something like this:
https://x.xx.com/xxx/92-prelude_op.28_to_15_“raindrop”_(...
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Unable to download specific version of libxdmcp from Ubuntu archives
I'm trying to install 3D printing software (Klipperscreen) on a 2012 Macbook Pro running Linux Mint 21.3. The installation script tries to fetch libxdmcp-dev_1.1.3-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb (http://archive....
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Windows Store downloads are severerely rate limited - why?
Windows Store downloads are severely rate limited on my Windows 11 (10.0.22631.3085 23H2) computer and I can't figure out why (nor can our IT guys). What could be causing it?
The download rate is ...
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Downloading and immediately uploading: is there a system to download files to a fast cache rather than all the way to my desktop
I regularly download files from one bit of the internet only to upload them somewhere else (just now it was a video file). In such circumstances I very very rarely touch the file locally.
It would be ...
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