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How to resume an accidentally removed/missing transfer in Opera?

Tuesday, 7. October 2008, 11:08:56

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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 web server allows resuming of broken downloads.

  1. Start download again and save with another name.
  2. Stop transfer after few seconds.
  3. Delete new download file.
  4. Rename old download file with new name.
  5. Resume transfer.

[gun via Opera Desktop Team blog]

Update:
Nov 15, 2008: arnymars posted this earlier in forums.

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