Strange Problem With Internet Download Manager

[11masoodt]

Hi Guys,

I've been downloading fairly large files with IDM (>8GB) and the problem I'm having is only happening with files downloaded from IDM. So here's the problem:

When I tried copying these large files onto my external drive, it was taking ages (like usually transfers happen 30MB/s but now things were crawling at 4-8MB/s). So I thought there's a problem with my hdd, so I tried another one and voila the same problem occurs. Now today for fun I tried copying a file that wasn't downloaded with IDM (torrented file) and what do ya know? the copy is going at full speed and this happened with several "non-IDM" downloaded files.

So does anyone have a solution/suggestion/advice or experienced sth similar

Thanks

 

[Seriously]

Strange Problem With Internet Download Manager

You are not suppose to download the internet. Only a few files from the internet are allowed. We live in Africa.

Anyway try scanning for viruses.

 

[NeonNinja]

Hmm, quite odd. What are you downloading?

 

[11masoodt]

You are not suppose to download the internet. Only a few files from the internet are allowed. We live in Africa.

Anyway try scanning for viruses.

Lmao couldn't help it just got faster internet. Virus scan yields nothing :/

 

[11masoodt]

Hmm, quite odd. What are you downloading?

Forgot to mention in the original post, they're video files. Could it be that since IDM is segmenting the files and then downloading them, that now they're fragmented all over the drive? (I'm not too familiar with such technical things, so maybe someone can correct me)

 

[NeonNinja]

IDM appends every segment after download to one file. /Beats me.

 

[Frikkenator]

Forgot to mention in the original post, they're video files. Could it be that since IDM is segmenting the files and then downloading them, that now they're fragmented all over the drive? (I'm not too familiar with such technical things, so maybe someone can correct me)

This could indeed be possible, try copying (not moving) it to a different location on the same hard drive then copy from there. While it could still be fragmented it should be considerable less, then you'll at least know what your problem is.

 

[Rickster]

Use DAP 10, works like a dream.

 

[11masoodt]

Use DAP 10, works like a dream.

I was considering that, becuase I've never had any problems with that. Another thing I'm trying is defragmenting the files individually, let's see how that goes :/

 

[11masoodt]

This could indeed be possible, try copying (not moving) it to a different location on the same hard drive then copy from there. While it could still be fragmented it should be considerable less, then you'll at least know what your problem is.

Just to let everyone know, if anyone ever has a similiar problem, that individually defragmenting the files seems to fix the problem. Things are copying a lot faster. I used Piriform Defraggler to defrag individual files, really nice app