Comments on: Friday’s question: why does every big download choke at 99%?

By: G

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:32:04 +0000

It took me 5 hrs to download 0.5 Mb

By: Dave Z

Dave Z — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:04:29 +0000

Yeah, you would think MS would have a decent file manager. I downloaded Vista from the volume licensing site earlier this week and left it overnight only to find it at “interrupted” status the next morning with 300 MB remaining. Luckily it picked up and finished in about 15 minutes so I could leave for work.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:51:09 +0000

I finally got the last 2.5 MB about an hour later after at least a dozen “suspend and resumes” not to mention several reboots. Sheesh!

By: Dave Z

Dave Z — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:31:16 +0000

Suspend and then resume the download and then it should finish – the MS file transfer manager does this to me all the time and a suspend/resume has always done the trick for me.

By: enterman

enterman — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:43:01 +0000

That happens to me all time when downloading large files thru bittorrents. Sometimes it takes weeks to get those last few MB. I feel your pain.

By: Bob Russell

Bob Russell — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:27:42 +0000

Also, doesn’t it feed it through virus scan. I’ve had luck on large files (who I knew for sure were safe) by turning off the download virus scan.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:16:04 +0000

I’ve seen the temporary file moved to a permanent location, but I still don’t have the whole file. However, I got 2 MB of the last 2.5….just half a meg to go!

By: jk

jk — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:13:08 +0000

Because it downloads to a temporary file and at the 99% mark (apparently) it copies it to the actual download location.

By: e

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:24:06 +0000