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How to resume downloads at specific time?
Hi ,Would appreciate if someone can let me know how to resume a download at a specific time.
...eg if i pause a download now and want it to resume tomorrow morning at 1 AM, thus making use of my midnight to morning data, ect.
Version 11.61
Build 1250
Platform Win32
System Windows Vista
thanx
Not possible AFAIK, Unless someone else knows different ?. Though i doubt it.
Unless there is an extension that makes it possible ?, But i don't use extensions,
So wouldn't know.
Unless there is an extension that makes it possible ?, But i don't use extensions,
So wouldn't know.
Opera 12.14 - 1738 (Portable 32bit) on Win8 Pro, Or portable versions of Linux Mint 14 or Puppy Linux Upup Precise - 3.8.3.1
Use ReGet Deluxe Personal (dx.reget.com)
Or FreeDownloadManager.org
there was also o'Get tool to integrate the into Opera
Or FreeDownloadManager.org
there was also o'Get tool to integrate the into Opera
thanks but im not a fan of installing too many stuf on my pc.
When thre resume button is pressed, it most probably sends an "instruction" that gets processd by the pc?right?
can this "inrtruction" not be like... entered in the task scheduler and then gets scheduled to run at pecific date/time?
When thre resume button is pressed, it most probably sends an "instruction" that gets processd by the pc?right?
can this "inrtruction" not be like... entered in the task scheduler and then gets scheduled to run at pecific date/time?
> it most probably sends an "instruction" that gets processd by the pc?
no. It sends an instruction, that is procceeded by Opera GUI, which send an instruction that gets proceeded by Opera internal Downloader object, which sends many instructions that get proceeded by Opera HTTP network layer, which sends many*many instructions that get proceeded by Windows TCP/IP stack (WinSock2), which sends many*many*many instructions that get proceeded by Windows HAL, which sends many*many*many*many instructions that get proceeded by driver for Network Card, which sends many*many*many*many*many instructions that get proceeded by CPU(processor chip) and network card chip.
For each deeper layer each instruction of higher one is implemented by thousands of instructions of deeper one.
Thousands, multiply by thousands and multiply again...
The last level, where chips are engaged at last, is what you called "pc" - as u can see there is not some "instruction" but thousands of thousands of .... of them.
And the chips do not have instructions like "close window" or "get that file", they only have instructions like "2+2=4" and nothing more complex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set
Oh.. that only downloading from the network into memory - you should also write from memory into disk, and you should show on the screen how file is downloaded and when it will get 100%, and you should predict all possible errors and correctly behave in each of them (if you did not predicted ALL errors - then the program crashes if that error happened in reality), and those are similar chains yet again.
To get ur "download the file" those 3 words should be translated into myriads of "2+2=4" basic commands that chips can understand.
To push all those commands into task scheduler you would need to... ahem... write your own program. Because programs are exactly those translators from human language to "2+2=4" language.
And if you want to have task scheduler "send myriads of instructions to pc" to download the file - you should give it such translator=program. Either you make that program yourself, or you install the one that someone already made.
no. It sends an instruction, that is procceeded by Opera GUI, which send an instruction that gets proceeded by Opera internal Downloader object, which sends many instructions that get proceeded by Opera HTTP network layer, which sends many*many instructions that get proceeded by Windows TCP/IP stack (WinSock2), which sends many*many*many instructions that get proceeded by Windows HAL, which sends many*many*many*many instructions that get proceeded by driver for Network Card, which sends many*many*many*many*many instructions that get proceeded by CPU(processor chip) and network card chip.
For each deeper layer each instruction of higher one is implemented by thousands of instructions of deeper one.
Thousands, multiply by thousands and multiply again...
The last level, where chips are engaged at last, is what you called "pc" - as u can see there is not some "instruction" but thousands of thousands of .... of them.
And the chips do not have instructions like "close window" or "get that file", they only have instructions like "2+2=4" and nothing more complex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set
Oh.. that only downloading from the network into memory - you should also write from memory into disk, and you should show on the screen how file is downloaded and when it will get 100%, and you should predict all possible errors and correctly behave in each of them (if you did not predicted ALL errors - then the program crashes if that error happened in reality), and those are similar chains yet again.
To get ur "download the file" those 3 words should be translated into myriads of "2+2=4" basic commands that chips can understand.
To push all those commands into task scheduler you would need to... ahem... write your own program. Because programs are exactly those translators from human language to "2+2=4" language.
And if you want to have task scheduler "send myriads of instructions to pc" to download the file - you should give it such translator=program. Either you make that program yourself, or you install the one that someone already made.
The next question might be
"why Opera itself cannot be put into scheduler or does not have it's own scheduler"
Well...
Ur question was "how you can make ur opera 11.61 do it today" - the answer is there are no proper way. You may try to use utoHotKey, and if you manage to program it, then Opera would be treated to think that you moved the mouse at 1AM and pressed that button.
Would it be easy and reliable for you - definitely not.
You may ask why wouldn't Opera made it in some newer version?
Maybe they would. Someday.
But that will push Opera into "jack of all trades, master of none" state.
And it will take quite a time to program it and even to decide HOW to program (you would like to select which downloads resume to 1 AM, which at 2 AM and which at any time but after all other downloads completed. It is not that easy to PREDICT all what user may want)
The another way would be to make opera kind of LEGO constructor, absolutely open, allowing any programs to send any instructions to any internal part of Opera. Very flexible approach. That is how Microsoft Internet Explorer build. That is how Microsoft Office is built. You can send any data into your Excel, because it is just a Lego and you can send any instructions you want.
Will it be good ?
Do you know, that there is viruses for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel ?
Do you know how they started to be ?
15 years ago Office programs were not open LEGO but were closed like Opera now.
Then Microsoft decided that to make their Office #1 they neeed easy and flexible integration with teask scheduler and with whatever program anyone would right.
They also decided that Microsoft Word should be used for sending e-mail, then anyone whou would want to read e-mail would have to buy Windows and Word. So they used their LEGO flexibility and integrated Internet Explorer with Word, so that Word was run every time user clicked onto e-mail link. It was WordMail feature of Office 95 or Office 97 - i do not remember exactly.
They wished to have Office like Lego, open to any program to send commands.
They wished Office to be used transparently over Internet.
They meet both goals. The new class of viruses appeared that never was before - so called "macroviruses".
They were exactly the programs that "send instructions to Word"
So unless you want to have viruses for Opera, you'd better not wish Opera to be controllable from Task scheduler or any other outside program.
"why Opera itself cannot be put into scheduler or does not have it's own scheduler"
Well...
Ur question was "how you can make ur opera 11.61 do it today" - the answer is there are no proper way. You may try to use utoHotKey, and if you manage to program it, then Opera would be treated to think that you moved the mouse at 1AM and pressed that button.
Would it be easy and reliable for you - definitely not.
You may ask why wouldn't Opera made it in some newer version?
Maybe they would. Someday.
But that will push Opera into "jack of all trades, master of none" state.
And it will take quite a time to program it and even to decide HOW to program (you would like to select which downloads resume to 1 AM, which at 2 AM and which at any time but after all other downloads completed. It is not that easy to PREDICT all what user may want)
The another way would be to make opera kind of LEGO constructor, absolutely open, allowing any programs to send any instructions to any internal part of Opera. Very flexible approach. That is how Microsoft Internet Explorer build. That is how Microsoft Office is built. You can send any data into your Excel, because it is just a Lego and you can send any instructions you want.
Will it be good ?
Do you know, that there is viruses for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel ?
Do you know how they started to be ?
15 years ago Office programs were not open LEGO but were closed like Opera now.
Then Microsoft decided that to make their Office #1 they neeed easy and flexible integration with teask scheduler and with whatever program anyone would right.
They also decided that Microsoft Word should be used for sending e-mail, then anyone whou would want to read e-mail would have to buy Windows and Word. So they used their LEGO flexibility and integrated Internet Explorer with Word, so that Word was run every time user clicked onto e-mail link. It was WordMail feature of Office 95 or Office 97 - i do not remember exactly.
They wished to have Office like Lego, open to any program to send commands.
They wished Office to be used transparently over Internet.
They meet both goals. The new class of viruses appeared that never was before - so called "macroviruses".
They were exactly the programs that "send instructions to Word"
So unless you want to have viruses for Opera, you'd better not wish Opera to be controllable from Task scheduler or any other outside program.