How do I force Firefox to complete a large download?
I'm trying to download a Mount & Blade: Warband mod onto my computer. The file size is 319 MB, though this problem has happened many times before with much smaller downloads (ie, a document).
I would like to know how to force firefox to complete the download. Every time, even when I shut down everything but the download page itself, it completes about a third of the file, and then tells me it's downloaded like normal. When I try to open it, I get a message telling me it was incomplete, and to obtain a new copy from the owner.
I love Firefox, but this is really getting old. Especially where firefox tells me it's downloaded (an act of innocence is a sure sign of guilt!), but has really only completed it partially. The truly irritating bit is the fact that I can't refresh or restart the download. Firefox says it's completed, so I have to start completely over by deleting the original file and going back to the download site. Needless to say, this is time-consuming, and I'm not getting anywhere.
Any help is appreciated.
Alle antwurden (1)
You can try these steps:
- Move the old .part partial download and the final file without the .part that has size 0 to another location.
- Start a new download and pause it, don't close Firefox.
- Copy the two files (.part and 0 byte final) that you moved above back to the download location to replace the new files that were created.
- Resume the download in Firefox.
It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files.
Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.
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