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Stopping Flashgot
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:32 pm
by steveG
I tried to do a Flashgot Selection for a large list of images and now I find that I cannot halt the downloads. How do I stop the flashgot?
I am using Flashgot using Firefox 3.6.8 on Kubuntu Linux. Flashgot is using wget to download the pictures. I have killed firefox and the downloads are still happening.
Thanks for your help.
Re: Stopping Flashgot
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:50 pm
by therube
Not familiar with your setup, but would think that FF -> FlashGot passes a set of links to wget & once passed they are out of the picture. So if killing FF didn't help, what happens if you kill wget?
Re: Stopping Flashgot
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:34 pm
by steveG
If I kill wget, then after a few seconds, wget is restarted and the downloads resume.
Re: Stopping Flashgot
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:42 pm
by Giorgio Maone
wget should be spawned by a XTerm instance.
Isn't it killed if you close the XTerm window?
Re: Stopping Flashgot
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:21 pm
by steveG
I just tested it four times. Twice killing the xterm stopped the downloads. Twice the files still kept appearing in the destination directory until I rebooted the machine.