Software needs to show useful errors, allow retrying on failure, and backup the extractions seperately

ahmedayman4a / Linkedin-Learning-Courses-Downloader

Download LinkedIn Learning Courses in mp4 format and in the video quality you like with an intuitive UI

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Software needs to show useful errors, allow retrying on failure, and backup the extractions seperately #53

Open Lewis8379 opened 2 years ago

Lewis8379 commented 2 years ago

I did some downloading, where the extraction worked fine, but the downloading failed. Frustratingly, the software doesn't seem to provide any actual details of why the downloading failed, nor does it allow me to retry, wasting all of the prior effort of extraction.

Enhancement suggestions:

Show useful error messages
Allow retrying
Backup the extraction (or allow me to do it seperately) so it doesn't have to be done again if it's the downloading that fails

ahmedayman4a commented 2 years ago

These are really good recommendations but right now I am a bit busy, once I am free I will start working on an update with some requested features. Feel free to submit a PR if you interested as well,

ps. You can find the app logs to understand better why an error happened at %localappdata%\Linkedin-Learning-Courses-Downloader\app-1.2.0\logs

Lewis8379 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the reply, that's good to hear. In order, I think allowing me to retry would be the most useful thing.

Sadly I'm not a programmer so cannot contribute any code, but I'm happy to slip a donation your way.

Next time the download fails, I'll look in the logs, thanks. Might be worth popping that on the readme.

Thanks again! :)