Downloading is the process of receiving digital data from another computer, either over a local-area-network or a wide-area-network (i.e. the internet).
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How can I download an entire website?
How can I download all pages from a website?
Any platform is fine.
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Where can I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)?
I just bought a serial for Windows 7 on-line from the Microsoft store (the most painful shopping experience EVER!). I selected that I wanted to download my version of Windows 7 after purchase. After payment, I have listed a Product Key but no…
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How to download a complete website from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?
I want to get all the files for a given website at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Reasons might include:
The original author did not archived his own website and it is now offline, I want to make a public cache from it.
I am the original…
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How to download video with blob url?
I am trying to download video with src url blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/23aea5c8-9ae2-40dc-9417-e675ea99b386.
Is there a process that can be followed to download all this type of videos?
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Download all mail messages from Gmail including Sent folder items
How can I download all the messages from a Gmail account, including the Sent folder items, when a normal POP fetch will only grab the inbox items?
My wife recently died, and she gave me access to her Gmail account. While I'm not sure whether or not…
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Google Chrome Auto-Close Download Bar
Having to hit the X to close out that bar over and over is such a pain. When a download completes, I want to have the bar clear itself and leave the bottom of the screen, similar to the way Download Statusbar for Firefox does. How do I do this?
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Why do some downloading files not know their own size?
Occasionally, when downloading a file in a web browser, the download progress doesn't "know" the total size of the file, or how far along in the download it is -- it just shows the speed at which it's downloading, with a total as "Unknown".
Why…
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Downloading software without bloatware
From time to time, I find myself needing a piece of software to perform a specific task. Download.com (CNET) used to be a good site. But now, I find that they bundle a lot of "evilware", i.e. bloatware/adware (spyware?). Despite my best efforts to…
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Save a single web page (with background images) with Wget
I want to use Wget to save single web pages (not recursively, not whole sites) for reference. Much like Firefox's "Web Page, complete".
My first problem is: I can't get Wget to save background images specified in the CSS. Even if it did save the…
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Does streaming use the same amount of bandwidth as downloading?
Assuming the content is of the same quality (ceteris paribus), does streaming media (i.e. video, audio) use the same amount of bandwidth as downloading it?
Say I was to download an HD movie from Amazon or stream it, would it be the equivalent use of…
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How to find out the real download URL on download sites that use redirects
Let's say I want to download something with wget but the website that has the files I need redirects to a site which automatically chooses a mirror for me (and there's no static file URL provided).
Downloading from such sites works with Firefox, but…
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Where can I find the VMware vSphere client?
VMware's download site is very frustrating. I am unable to find where the download link to the vSphere client is.
Did they rename this tool? How can I get it?
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Getting chrome to open "text" files in a tab
When I look at code samples on the web that are linked to as a .c, .cpp, .h etc file, chrome will download it for me as a file.
Is there a way to get it to open the file (which is really just a text file with a different extension, and chrome does…
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How do I recursively download a directory using smbclient?
When I try to fetch a directory with get "Path To\Directory\", I get the following error:
NT_STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY opening remote file Path To\Directory
How do I recursively download this directory?
(Using smbclient v3.6.23. The server is a…
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Does saving a web page using Ctrl+S in Firefox make the browser load the site a second time?
When saving a website for offline reading with Ctrl+S in Firefox, I notice that the download process takes some seconds to finish although the web page is already loaded.
I'm wondering whether saving the web page like that will make Firefox fetch…
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