History File Not Updated

tellyaddict tellyaddict21 at gmx.co.uk
Fri Aug 5 08:23:17 PDT 2016


Hi Chris,
The History file gets updated after GiP determines the download has fully completed (the same time as it removes .partial from the filename). If a download stalls and fails it won't be added to the History file. As the files you had to delete were still .partial files, GiP knew they were not successful so they were not added to the History.

> So when is the History File updated with an attempted download that
> fails such that --force is necessary to repeat a download?



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