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marklieberman / downloadstar

Download all items in a webpage that match a pattern
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Download does not start #69

Open traut21 opened 5 years ago

traut21 commented 5 years ago

Do you have any idea why a download just does not start?

Sometimes it works just perfect - and sometimes it just does nothing to start a download. Download Window closes and nothing ever happens

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ssokolow commented 5 years ago

This, probably made worse by not knowing that "Skip existing files is based on remembering downloaded URLs, since there is no API to test for existence of a file." really limits the usability of Download Star.

I had to check through every batch download because, suppose I'm downloading a sequence of 20 images. I might find that number 12 never downloaded and my only option is to make sure I left that tab open, go back, and use the manual context menu download option because Download Star refuses to try again.

I only realized what was probably going on with "Skip" just now, when I happened to visit the AMO page to grab a link for someone.