How to resume an accidentally removed/missing transfer in Opera?
13 CommentsPublished October 7th, 2008 6:08 AM EDT By Tamil
This tip will help you to resume a download (especially large size) in the following cases.
- Accidentally removed transfer from the transfers tab.
- Closed Opera with an intention to resume download next day but transfer is missing when Opera is started.
- Resuming download with an another high speed mirror.
The following will work when server allows resuming of broken downloads.
- Start download again and save with another name.
- Stop transfer after few seconds.
- Delete new download file.
- Rename old download file with new name.
- Resume transfer.
[gun via Opera Desktop Team blog]
Update: arnymars has proposed this earlier in forums.
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OK, very useful (I use Star Downloader for >100MB), but why not just make Opera’s d/l ‘manager’ (such as it is) capable of resuming transfers, as this would address at least the second point?
There are several free d/l managers (I chose Star because it’s simple), so surely there can’t be any great barrier to Opera doing this.
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@Peter
Opera is capable of resuming transfers. Sometimes s**t happens, though.
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Ah, thanks, worth a try perhaps (my large d/ls tend to be distros of Linuux, so…!).
Hadn’t risked it for a couple of years. With Star I can, if the d/l slows, stop it and resume at a quieter time.
hadn’t realised that Opera could resume after turning off and on.
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Never had a problem with stopping and starting downloads in Opera, but if I do…………….
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Just checked if I use the downloader much – about 10 (all complete – mainly pdfs + a few distros) sat on there!
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Nice tip. Thanks!
I thought I should work (around) this way, but never tried actually.
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It happened to me a couple of times and I’ve never come to your idea
Great tip, thanks!
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Thanks for this tip this will be helpful.
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Great tip, thanks! Had this happen to me a couple of times.
One minor thing: why the “?” in the title? It’s not a question, and even if it was it was badly formed :S
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Nice.
A related tip would be to resume an interrupted page load with Tools>Advanced>Reload from cache (Alt, T, A, R) rather than Refresh (F5). Much faster, in case just some elements on the page haven’t finished loading.
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It was quite funny to find my tip from the desktopteam blog in my feeds. The best thing is, that i actually never tested that tip myself! I just guessed, that it should work this way.
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Opera NEVER saves my transfer history for some reason, thanks for the tip! You saved me from redownloading 2.5 GBs.