Re: Problems with Download Director

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would agree with Tommy as well, you running pop-up blocker possibly.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:26 PM, <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have *never* had a good experience with download director.  I just
> choose the FTP method then run the FTP in batch on my system.  Once it's
> through I'm ready to roll.  My advise is dump download misdirector...
>
> Thanks,
> Tommy Holden
>
>
>
> From:   "Thomas Garvey" <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   01/31/2011 11:23 AM
> Subject:        Problems with Download Director
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>
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> I'm having a very frustrating time with Download Director.  I need a cume
> for my v5r3 partition (a software vendor says its required but can't be
> specific about the PTF actually needed to resolve an issue), but haven't
> been able to complete the download.
>
> It prepares the order and I wait till it's ready, then select the Resume
> My
> Pending Orders.  It begins the optical image download direct to the system
> and runs fine until after it says it has completed 5 of 6 files.  Then the
> estimated time remaining just starts going UP along with the elapsed time.
> I've let it run for over 24 hours with no actual advance in completion
> percentage.
>
> First of all, I'm not sure why it says 6 files being downloaded when the
> actual files listed by the Download Director are 13.  Then, no matter the
> format I instruct it to download (optical image to system, ftp files to my
> PC, etc), it fails.  I've tried Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, two
> different partitions, and over three days have nothing to show for it as
> it
> seems to fail at the same approximate depth into the download.  By the
> way,
> the Download Director is described as being restartable should the
> download
> fail.  I have seen nothing to allow that.
>
> The only option I think I have left is to order the CDs to be created and
> mailed to me.
>
> Has anyone else ever encountered this type of issue with Download
> Director?
> Anything I haven't thought of?
>
> Thanks for all suggestions.
>
> Tom Garvey
>
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