I hate you, IE cache!

[MaxDepth]

Yeah, that's right. You stink!

I'm trying to download CD ISOs (for work) and I have to use IE (the system cannot go out and pick up Netscape or Mozilla, et al).

When it downloads, it keeps it in a temp file under the windows IE cache directory. After it pulls the whole file, it then transfers it to the properly assigned directory. So now, after it pulls the ISOs from the network (doing mulitple concurrents here), I get these "copying..." messages where the files will take like 7 to 15 minutes to transfer from cache to directory.


What a piece of Spyglass software crap!
:|

 

[ThisIsMatt]

It takes your computer 7-15 minutes to transfer a ~700MB file? That's sad.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
It takes your computer 7-15 minutes to transfer a ~700MB file? That's sad.

Seriously. I transferred a 4.3GB file to my iPod last night in about 8 minutes. My iPod is like 6 times as fast as the HD in your computer.

 

[SWScorch]

well, remember, hard disks are notoriously slow When copying from one section of a platter to another. Still, that is a long time. I would imagine it shouldn't take more than 3-4 minutes. But yeah, that sucks. One of the reasons why I don't use IE anymore.

 

[Nitemare]

I can transfer a 1.4 gig avi file from one computer at home to my other ones in 5 minutes.


Get another computer

 

[neutralizer]

Who downloads ISOs with IE? I use flashget atleast.

 

[MailBoxHead]

Use a download manager and stop whining please.

 

[igowerf]

The drive is trying to read and write at the same time. Of course it's going to be slow. The comparisons you guys are giving are cases where you're copying from one drive to another.

 

[MaxDepth]

Use a download manager and stop whining please.

Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I cannot use any other tools other than what is on this one. I cannot connect to the outside (www) nor load software from an outside source - e.g. diskette.
Also, I was downloading 9 ISOs at the same time. Hence the words, "multiple concurrents."


I'd rather pull them via tftp but the knuckledheads insisted on putting them on webserver space. And I cannot translate the URL into a functional dns.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: igowerf
The drive is trying to read and write at the same time. Of course it's going to be slow. The comparisons you guys are giving are cases where you're copying from one drive to another.

exactly



i hate it when ie does that too. if the file is too big I use something else to download, like opera b/c it has its own download manager.

it's really the only problem i have with ie.

 

[0roo0roo]

i've always wondered why stupid did that. sometimes my c: doesn't have enough space even though the destination drive did, and that f*cks everything up.