Resume partial OmniWeb downloads

Apr 01, '02 12:14:54AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

OmniWeb seems to lack a "resume download" feature. Instead of re-downloading the first part again, you can use wget with the -c (continue) option to resume the download.

  1. In OmniWeb's Downloads window, click on the file to resume downloading. Then copy its URL.

  2. Open a new window in Terminal.

  3. cd to the directory that contains the partial file. It's probably Desktop.

  4. Type wget -c and paste the URL after it. The download should resume.
[Editor's note: I haven't used OmniWeb's downloading facilities often enough to verify this behavior, but it does make sense that 'wget' would be able to continue, as long as it can find the first portion of the file.]

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