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Old 12-11-2002, 05:24 AM  
squonk
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Default Resuming download of files of unknown size

Some FTP sites protect their files by preventing from listing their directories. I got one of this kind at work.
You can only get the files if you know their complete file and path name.
The problem with FlashFXP is that you can never resume file downloading when dealing with such files.
To retrieve such files, you use "manual get" but as the file listing is not allowed, FlashFXP doesn't know anything about the file size and arbitrarily sets it to zero.
So if you later try to resume such a download, the "file exists" rule applied is always "When Destination is larger". And in this case "Auto resume" is not available.

I think FlashFXP could set the file size to an "unknown" state instead of zero, and then apply by default the "When Destination is smaller" file exists rule. The size shown in the queue could be set to ?? for instance instead of 0 too.
Another solution (the best!) could be to add a combo box in the "file exists options" to allow the user to choose the behaviour of FlashFXP in such a case (which rule is to be used when the source file for downloading is of unknown size).


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Don't forget the clipboard monitoring button in the toolbar after your holidays !
No this is not a private joke, it's a real need !
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