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Orion The Chosen One	Oct 10 2009, 6:18pm Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	I know a lot of you have recently suffered some issues with broken downloads while trying to get your mod and game files here on ModDb. I had this very same problem earlier tonight while trying to download a file when my broadband connection dropped! I wasn't using a Download Manager at the time and was simply relying on the standard Firefox download. Anyway, I was gutted when the connection dropped, especially considering that the download was 98% complete at 219MB! I checked the folder I was downloading the file into and I noticed I had both the .PART and a .ZIP files as usual. So... I did a little research into how i could possibly resume the .PART file which had a size equaling the 219MB already downloaded. I found the following solution and it worked perfectly for me without the aid of any DL managers! All that's required is good old Firefox and your .PART file! (funnily enough, the poster of the solution is also named Orion! lolz ) Orion188 wrote:It IS completely possible to do that with Firefox itself. I know it is too late considering the last post on this thread, but I want to share the solution with other people who might have this problem. 1- you have two files on the destination folder. One with the original name and one with an extra ".PART" extension. Move both of these files to some other folder (Move! not copy) 2- Start your download again from the beginning (you have access to the download link, don't you?) 3- Let it download a few bytes, just to have those two files created again, with the exact same name. Now PAUSE this download. 4- Go to the folder where you backed up those old files. Copy both of these files to your download folder and replace the new created files when asked. 5- Now go to Firefox's Downloads form and resume the download. That's it! Source of the above - Forums.mozillazine.org I hope that this information is of some help to those Firefox users who suffer broken downloads when grabbing files both here on ModDb and elsewhere! As I said, It worked for me just nicely! I hope it works for you! Good luck! PS: In order for the above solution to work properly, you have to make sure that you use the Exact Same Mirror as you did before the download broke! Sorry, I forgot to mention that above! -- I Am Incredibilus Fantasticus Maximus!
Henley Currently Occupied for Reasons Unknown	Oct 10 2009, 8:37pm Anchor
Henley Currently Occupied for Reasons Unknown	If you are using a download manager you can always just copy the new url to the existing download it works the same way. -- If you don't understand my signature, shame on you!
jjawinte	Nov 8 2009, 10:15pm Anchor
jjawinte	That's some good information to have Orion.Glad I caught this. I just finished putting mt FFox back together after one of those "What the hell "moments and lost a sizable download in the process and started all over.I'll keep a copy of this tip for the future . -- It's a big sandbox we're playing in, plenty of room for everybody.
ZemplinTemplar	Nov 26 2009, 5:21pm Anchor
ZemplinTemplar	My Firefox browser isn't currently working. But why do I always get a blank page when I try to download anything from this site with IE 8 ? I am totally cluless...
Orion The Chosen One	Nov 26 2009, 5:48pm Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this IE8 issue before now. I just tried a few random download links via IE8 myself and I get a "The webpage cannot be found" error on each one. Whereas they work perfectly fine with FF. I'll send a PM to Scott asking if there's a known issue and then report back here. (That's if he doesn't post here himself in the meantime tho). In the meantime tho I'd advise to try and uninstall and reinstall FF and then see if it works again for you. If this fails then try grabbing a copy of Advanced SystemCare 3 and use it to clean up your system registry and try the FF reinstall again and see what happens. It should work! Good Luck! Update: It looks like while this IE8 issue occurs straight after clicking the "Download Now" link on the download page... Clicking the "Mirror" link where it says "if it doesn't start automatically or try another mirror" in the pop-up window, actually works and allows you to select another mirror. This will work for you until the main issue is resolved. Edited by: Orion
ZemplinTemplar	Nov 27 2009, 5:27am Anchor
ZemplinTemplar	Wow, thanks for the help, Orion. I'll try the trick with the mirror... Edit : Call me stupid, but I can't find any pop-up window anywhere near the "Mirrors" heading. Nor is the "Mirrors" heading clickable, if that's what you meant. Edited by: ZemplinTemplar
Orion The Chosen One	Nov 27 2009, 10:23pm Anchor
Orion The Chosen One	Can you please send me a screenshot of what you see after clicking the "Download Now" links in a PM? Edited by: Orion
ZemplinTemplar	Nov 28 2009, 7:07am Anchor
ZemplinTemplar	Orion wrote:Can you please send me a screenshot of what you see after clicking the "Download Now" links in a PM? Gah, I just realized, what I was doing wrong ! Silly me... I think it'll work now. Thanks for all the help anyway.