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RD: x% when beginning new download.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:10 am
by Guest
Hi.
All of a sudden I get RD: x% before all downloads.
I don't recall ever seeing it before, and it's quite annoying.
Especially since I don't know what it is.
TIA.
-Gandalf
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:58 am
by antini
I believe it means Reserving Diskspace. If it's a large file, you're probably seeing it now because it takes longer to do so.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:26 pm
by Guest
Ah, that makes sense.
Many thanks.
Course, that begs the question, how did you know?
I couldn't find it in the FAQ, docs or Google.
Thanks again.
-Gandalf
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:03 am
by antini
Just a guess
I'm not sure that's what it means, but I'm pretty sure that's what it's doing.
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:25 pm
by Guest
Just a question
I use FDM for a long time and this "function" was not present
in any older version.
Older versions just created a file in a second.
So what for is this? Is it better then before?
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:40 pm
by Alex
Older versions does the same thing, but they does not show progress.
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:36 am
by Guest
Unfortunately, this is not true.
I've just tried it with 700MB file.
FDM 2.1 allocate the space in a second and immediately starts downloading. FDM 2.5 shows the progress.
I don't know if this new method is more "safe",
but I can say it is slower, much slower!
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:07 am
by Alex
Yes, the difference is that FDM started download immediately while the allocation was in progress. Now FDM wait until allocation will be finished.
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:49 am
by FDMan
antini wrote:Just a guess
I'm not sure that's what it means, but I'm pretty sure that's what it's doing.
Ye, i think you're right since it does not show the size of the file before it does the RD.