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Thank you for the response.

The game is Type Dreams by Hofmeier (https://hofmeier.itch.io/type-dreams)

I've got a few more questions if you don't mind.

Am I right to assume that :

1) Even when the progress bar restarts from zero when resumed, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's starting from the beginning (or re-downloads everything from the beginning) and merely resumes from where it had stopped downloading/extracting.

2) When it still displays 'KB/s - minutes' it means that it's still downloading, not extracting.

3) When I checked 'AppData\Roaming\itch\apps\type-dreams' there were files in that folder. Does this mean that these were the files that were downloaded, and will not need to be re-downloaded by the app again?

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Amos4 years ago

Type Dreams is distributed as a .zip file, so the “good” strategy is used - the .zip is never stored on disk, and instead extracted on the fly.

In that case, you’d see all the files on disk as soon as the download starts. They’re just preallocated at the start of the single download+extract phase. (That should answer 3)

For 2, you’d only see a second progress bar if the format was something other than .zip, so not the case here.

For 1, well, if you had a progress bar restart from zero while downloading Type Dreams, something else went wrong, and I might be interested in looking at your app log: you can find it in “Preferences” => “Advanced” => “Open app log”, from that window you can type “Open folder” to locate the file. Or you might be able to diagnose just from reading the messages :)

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reddesertdisk4 years ago

I just pasted the part where I saw 'Resuming @ 57.7%' change to 'Resuming @ 8.4%' later on

https://pastebin.com/wVC9AHwu

Is this enough or should I post the whole log? and if so where should it be posted?

Thanks again! :)

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Amos4 years ago

Thanks for the log. Still, it’s kinda hard to tell what’s going on.. I did notice a bunch of network errors when the app was doing its self-update check, and when downloading locales…

Do you have any third-party antivirus running?

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reddesertdisk4 years ago

Here's the rest of the Itch log, I hope it's not that daunting to sift through.

I did turn off all antivirus apps when I downloaded through the app, even Windows Defender and Firewall, so that they couldn't share bandwidth.

I do have something turned on called IObit's 'Driver Booster,' though I'm not quite sure if this is the one causing trouble.

If there's really no solution I just might revert back to my browser-IDM plan and hope the zip doesn't come out corrupted...

Thanks anyway for taking the time for answering my questions! :)

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