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What's the best download manager? One that lets me pick up even after uninstall

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BirdDad

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/reinstall or move it to a new machine?
I am attempting for the third time to download a 375GB file on a 3Mbps connection(I know 12+ days at best).
Ninja download manager worked fine until my file hit 120GBs then it quit. IDM quit a long time before.
I am getting frustrated at this. Ever have a solid year go by when nothing worked like it should? I guess this is my Dark Night of the Soul.
 
If you can find the exact file as a torrent you should be able to download it without problems. Btw that's a huge file to download, can you tell us what is it?
 
seconding a torrent. Otherwise, wget would probably work.

Name

Wget - The non-interactive network downloader.
Synopsis

wget [option]... [ URL ]...
Description

GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP , HTTPS , and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while the user is not logged on. This allows you to start a retrieval and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work. By contrast, most of the Web browsers require constant user's presence, which can be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.

Wget can follow links in HTML , XHTML , and CSS pages, to create local versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original site. This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading." While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard (/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded files to point at the local files, for offline viewing.

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the download from where it left off.
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http://linux.die.net/man/1/wget

There's Windows binaries available, but GNU/Linux will probably be more robust, and feature complete.
 
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BirdDad said:
/reinstall or move it to a new machine?
I am attempting for the third time to download a 375GB file on a 3Mbps connection(I know 12+ days at best).
Ninja download manager worked fine until my file hit 120GBs then it quit. Internet Download Manager Download - Softlay quit a long time before.
I am getting frustrated at this. Ever have a solid year go by when nothing worked like it should? I guess this is my Dark Night of the Soul.
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Try EagleGet download manager but I don't know it fulfills you needs or not because you download tons of data I use it as normal user and works fine. It's free to use.
 
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Honestly, for a file that big on a connection that slow, the best option would be to have the source put the file on a hard drive and ship it to you...
 
I would like to avoid using torrent, I tried Internet Download Manager but it messed up around 100GBs and would not let me resume the connection
 
IDM sucks turds. I had 200GB downloaded and had to turn my computer off and when I booted back up it said it had to start from the begining because of improper shutdown. It started at 157GBs. All that time wasted and I had just purchased it yesturday convinced it was a good program!
 
splitting the file up into rar files/or chunks of some sort seems the safest way. The reason for this is by the time you realize one of your download managers can't handle it, you've wasted days upon days of downloading for nothing.
 
Having a hard drive sent to me is an impossibility. The source won't split the file up with rar or any other archiver.
 
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