History File Not Updated

[CJB]

Thank you for your response. But when I've had failures before -
usually through lost packets or the downloading stalling - even if
I've deleted the partials in advance - GiP has always refused to
re-download a pid due to an entry in the History File from the failed
attempt. My solution to this has always been to manually do the
download using the command line or via the Windows PVM with the
--force option. This time I didn't have to use --force. Hence my
enquiry. Chris B.

On 05/08/2016, tellyaddict <tellyaddict21 at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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