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opentoe
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CHECK BEFORE DOWNLOAD option

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What does this option do? It seems once I turn it on all SAB wants to do is CHECK files at 1KB/s speeds and just hold things up. If I can download a 2GB file in less than a minute and know weather it is a good file or not, why would I turn on checking, waste the 5 minutes of whatever it is doing, then still need to download it? Is this option just for users with really slow connection speeds?
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Re: CHECK BEFORE DOWNLOAD option

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opentoe
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Re: CHECK BEFORE DOWNLOAD option

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Thanks. After turning off all that checking this, check that, it just ran better and it never really worked to good anyway. Spend 5 minutes checking "something" when I could download the entire package in 30 seconds. Makes sense for me to just turn them all off.
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We no longer recommend the feature.
You're better of using "Abort if job cannot be completed".
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Re: CHECK BEFORE DOWNLOAD option

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How does the Abort option work if one has backup servers configured?

Is there a check on backup servers before the possibility of failure is determined?
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The backup servers are used when needed, this is decided per article.
The pre-check works exactly the same as the actual download.
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