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Too many documents in a folder? Show only those relevant to your work with a variety of simple wildcards and file property based filters For screenshots click here.īrowse folders everywhere windows explorer can access including network, zipfolders, webfolders, libraries, FTP, cameras, mobile phones, cloud storage etc So that in case of a crash the download can continue from after the last flush. The periodic increase in size is due for the meta-data being periodically flushed, When the download is finished, the XYZ.part file will be renamed as XYZ. You would see for file XYZ also another file named XYZ.part which will Usually when downloading, you would see your file as 0KB. While the file is being written, the meta-data is not updated.įor the meta-data to be updated, the file must be closed or flushed, for the This meta-data is stored in the entry in the meta-data of the While the file is being written, its meta-data, which is what Explorer is displaying, What I find astounding is that the size was continuously updated in Windows 7. The fact that the file is displayed in Explorer as 0Kb is normal. Also tried about 5 or 6 free Explorer alternative programs, but it's exactly the same in all of them.Īt the time of this screenshot, that download was about 50% complete (as seen in FF Library window): none of those solutions has any effect at all on this issue.


I've already tried tons of things suggested in other forums about Explorer 'auto refresh' etc (which is sort of a different issue really I think). Before it finishes even if I click the Refresh button nothing happens at all.whereas in Win 7 that would immediately refresh the contents of the downloads folder.ĭoes anyone have any idea if this can be fixed, so that it works like it used to in Win 7? In Windows 10 on both my machines it just says 0 kb's until the download is finished,then it updates to whatever the full size is. In Windows 7, Explorer used to display in the Downloads folder in real time what the status of a download was.in other words,how many kb/mb's/whatever had actually been finished at that time. I can't find any help forum anywhere online about this exact issue,so I thought it might be worth asking here.
