Recover partially download file auto deleted by Chrome
Solution 1:
In address bar type chrome://flags
. and search for Enable Download Resumption
enable this option, restart your chrome browser and it will do the trick.
Solution 2:
How to prevent such loss
Here's a simple script that I use while downloading a bigger file.
#!/bin/bash
# ~/partial-download.sh
if [ -f "$1" ]; then
cp "$1" "${1}.backup"
fi
My crontab
entry then looks like this
*/10 * * * * /home/user/partial-download.sh "/home/user/file.crdownload"
And continue the partial download using wget -c