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If a download is interrupted by a network or server error, or you accidentally stop one before it completes (for example by quitting Fetch), it is often possible to save time by resuming the download of the file without re-downloading the part you already have.

  1. Choose Remote > Resume Download to open the Resume Download window.
  2. Select the name of the file you want to resume downloading, and then click the Resume button, or double-click its name.
  3. Fetch will reopen the connection to the server the file is located on if necessary, and start the download from where it left off.

An interrupted transfer leaves a partial file in your download folder or the location you dragged the file to originally. You can also resume a download by double-clicking the partial file in the Finder.

Note that if you were downloading more than one file or a folder when the download stopped, the Resume Download feature can only finish downloading the file that was being transferred at the time — Fetch does not remember the list of files it was going to download, but hadn't gotten to yet. You will have to go begin downloading any other untransferred files again manually.

See the Resume Download window help topic for more information about using Resume Download.

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