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Download Filesize

Started by WallyWaffles, April 12, 2008, 11:46:38 AM

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WallyWaffles

It would be useful if filesizes were displayed on the download page.  I have a bad habit of forgetting how huge the VOD downloads are and trying to download them to a disk that's nearly full.
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bettertomorrowamy

Clear a Gigabyte off your hard drive before hand, and you'll be right as rain....and then some.  Seriously though, why do you have that little room?  It slows your system down.
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torgosPizza

Not a bad idea, but doesn't the file download dialogue box usually show you the filesize, right around when the actual download starts?

WallyWaffles

I copy my divx files to an external harddrive, but the DivX Player automatically downloads the files to the Windows partition (I guess I could change that in the preferences...).  I'm using a shared computer, so the main harddrive is full of a lot of other people's junk.  It occasionally get's "low on system resources" when working with large files (such as feature-length VODs), and then I have to clean out temporary files and move larges ones to other disks.  Yeah, I know, not the wisest of circumstances.

The DRM-locked VODs get downloaded via DivX Player which doesn't display filesizes (of downloads in progress), but the DRM-free VODs get downloaded by my web browser which I think does show expected filesize.
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