Show downloaded percentage in queue list

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pensign
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Show downloaded percentage in queue list

Post by pensign » 2003-05-06 07:31

I find that the greatest unknown for the dc++ user when using the downloads queue listing is: How much of this file has already downloaded? If there is 98% of a file already in my temp folder, I am likely to want the remainder downloaded, so the file can be completed. At the moment, I do not see any way of finding this out other than A) looking in the temporary folder; or B) getting the download started so the percentage is revealed. Does anyone else share this problem?

Splicer
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Post by Splicer » 2003-05-06 13:46

Such a thing could be usefull in a lot of ways.
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Post by Nazo » 2003-05-11 12:44

Yeah, and it doesn't necessarily have to calculate the percentage for you even. If it could just say that you have, say 99MB out of 100MB, it would make a world of difference for me. I'm having to open an explorer window to the folder and check each of the different files I have for a certain download to figure out which one of them is closest to finished. (Sometimes I have to get multiple copies of the same file due to just being unable to tell which sources will work or not, and often I end up with a bunch of 1MB or so files and one that's nearly finished.)

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Post by distiller » 2003-07-29 21:16

I have decided to make the "anti-frag" feature smarter. When that is done DC++ will know the downloaded size of all partial files natively.

It will be pretty easy then to add a percentage tab or maybe make the background of each queue item colored to the downloaded percentage like the connections are. But that is for someone else to do I think. =)

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