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download files are empty. .part files have to be renamed

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MrsKinsey
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When I download files, the file will be empty, and there will also be a file with the extension of .part that contains the actual file. Sometimes it will have the same name and other times it will have a string of letters and numbers for the file name. I do a rename to get rid of the .part file and I delete the bad, empty file. It's a pain to have to do all that.

When I download files, the file will be empty, and there will also be a file with the extension of .part that contains the actual file. Sometimes it will have the same name and other times it will have a string of letters and numbers for the file name. I do a rename to get rid of the .part file and I delete the bad, empty file. It's a pain to have to do all that.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Do you have parental controls enabled in the Mac OS?

  • bug 1073134 - Download failure on OSX 10.9.5 with parental control on
MrsKinsey
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The only restrictions were to disable the dictation and to hide the profanity. I unchecked those and tried it again. Same problem.