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2 Replies Last post: Sep 20, 2005 9:03 AM by MacCheetah3  
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LarryC
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Feb 13, 2002
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Sep 20, 2005 7:33 AM

Safari Question

I have a question for the more experienced Mac users here. Why is it that with Windows I can download a huge file, audio book, video etc. and if my dial-up connection cuts off before the download is finished I can restart from where it left off. But with my beloved iMac, I have to start all over again? When Apple unveiled its own browser I thought it would offer such comparable features. Perhaps it does and I simply don't know how to access these features. Thanks in advance for any replies.

Larry

P.S. I'm currectly running version 10.3.9 and Safari version 1.3.1 (v312.3)
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sereluna
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Feb 24, 2004
1. Sep 20, 2005 8:06 AM in response to: LarryC
Re: Safari Question
If you click the little grey stop button to the right of your download, then click it again (turned into an orange reload button) it ought to resume where it left off, but some servers don't seem to let you do this.

You might like to use a download manager, but there don't seem to be any decent ones. The Opera web browser is quite good at handling downloads (faster, and it almost always lets you resume); for a while I used it only for that; i.e. did my web browsing in Safari, and copied the URLs for anything large I wanted to download to Opera, but that was a very clumsy solution.
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MacCheetah3
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2. Sep 20, 2005 9:03 AM in response to: LarryC
Re: Safari Question
Hi
I'm pretty sure Safari should allow this. The later versions anyway. Make sure not to remove the partially downloaded file. As far as the later versions of Safari go, it should be the name of the download with .download attached to the end.

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