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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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I try to obtain a publicly available historical document from an archive in Germany, however, the download never starts as I believe the PDF file is too big to be downloaded within a certain time, so ...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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W11Ent_x64: restore sequencing file names when downloading pictures from the internet
In W7, and maybe W8 was a feature that allowed downloading pictures with the same name, by adding a sequential number attached to it.
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Stellated Dodecahedron in 4D.Gif: when 5 such files were ...
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A pop-up window on Windows cannot be closed permanantly, how can I fix it?
I'm using windows and have the following issue:
A pop-up window on Windows cannot be closed permanantly, no matter how often I click "don’t show this dialogue again" and close the window. It ...
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In Firefox, is there a way to enqueue downloads to happen one at a time (sequentially)?
Using Firefox on a computer with a single hard-disk drive, sometimes I need to download several many large files from a remote server that is also serving from a single hard-disk drive.
It does not ...
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Why do Matroska files (.mkv) with '.der.' in the file name not play in Google Chrome but instead bring up a download dialog?
Usually, Matroska files (.mkv) that I open in Google Chrome (e.g. https://www.example.com/example.mkv) are played directly in the browser.
However, I noticed that files with .der. in the file name (e....
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How to increase retention of download history in Firefox?
Whenever I want to find a file that I remember downloading in Firefox download history, I fail unless it was very recent. It seems to remember about 30 items or so.
I don't think this history takes ...
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