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download links keep expiring during download

A topic by godmode86 created 2 days ago Views: 77 Replies: 6
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i dont know why, but i only have this problem on itch. i start a download, it starts, it interrupts saying "the download is no longer available on this page" - or something like that. sometimes i have to restart a download 10 times or more, which might or might not take a whole weekend day, just to download something. the problem is not that my downspeed is not great (which is true, in my rural area the downspeed is pretty limited), but i constantly have to monitor the download in order to restart it when the link expires randomly.

i turned off all popup blockers, cache deletion etc. but it just doesnt matter. if it would just run i didnt care it takes 5h or 10h to download something, but it just keeps cutting for no reason. none of my downloads ever cut. not on steam, not on gog, not on modnexus, nowhere except itch. 

and then for some random reason, after trying for two days, the download suddenly keeps going and finishes. its like bro, i dont have time to bruteforce a download for two days everytime i want to download a game, why is this stuff happening?

ive been searching the internet for clues about that problem on and off since last years and despite looking at several forum posts about bad downloads i never got a proper answer. 

"file is not available on this website" would probably the translation

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when i keep being active on itch it seems theres no big problem, but as soon as i want to do something else (like washing dishes) and i leave the computer for some time it keeps cutting my download, as if i was kicked for being afk on a server. this is ridiculous, i cant babysit all of my downloads by pointlessly clicking around the page for hours...

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(moved to the right category)

thx

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Maybe the Itch app has less problems with that, if the files are hosted on Itch. That's pretty big files for Itch.

If it has the same problems, you have a least a legit bug to report.

ill check that out thx