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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Bee-Tee-Ess - do you normally download from download.com, because I suspect your problems are much more likely to be caused by them than by IDM.
Perhaps you use their software update gadget (the thing that tells you there is a new version of something). I would only ever use that service as a notifier, and do the actual downloads from originators site - eg calibre-ebook.com, piriform.com etc. It may take a bit longer because its an extra step, but its normally safer (no Open Candy or Bunndle crap to dodge) and the downloads are often faster, lots faster e.g. a calibre download fromm calibre-ebook.com usually max's out my line (16Mbs).
BR
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No, I have never, until this occasion, used the download.com update gadget. It was a desperation measure, used because my usual procedure was causing problems.
My usual approach is quite straightforward. First, Internet Download Manager is a permanent resident in my system.
Every Friday, I see the notification in Calibre to the effect that a new version is available. I then go to
http://calibre-ebook.com/download, and download the installer package for the latest 64-bit version of Calibre. This process is automatically handled by IDM, which delivers the installer package to the same folder each week. I double-click the installer package, which automatically updates my copy of Calibre, and reloads the resulting upgraded copy so that I can confirm that all is well.
I have been doing that without incident for some years now, until last Friday, when v2.1 arrived. I must have tried nearly a dozen attempts at variations on this theme, (using Firefox, Chrome, with and without IDM), with what purported to be v2.1 updates, but turned out to be v2.0 each time. I then stopped and watched the troubles h.p was having, until he eventually successfully used the proxy approach. It was that which gave me the idea to use download.com, as being completely different from my usual procedure - and it worked.
Out of curiosity, I just downloaded v2.1 again, using my standard IDM procedure. Checking the Revision Number confirmed that I am still getting v2.0, even though the file is named
calibre-64bit-2.1.0.msi. This does not instill a great deal of confidence that v2.2 will be without problems. Fingers crossed...
Incidentally, I have used my standard IDM procedure to download a number of other packages over the last couple of days, and they were trouble-free.