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[Delta-Z]

I had an active download running of a file that I did not want anymore, so I went over to Download Queue tab and removed it. The file got removed from the queue, but download attempts did not stop, switching to infinite loop of "Connecting..." / "Download finished, idle...". It looks like downloads engine kept trying to download the file. It did not get any progress though, although before I removed the file from the queue it was downloading ok. After I restarted the client everything was normal.

[Zlobomir]

Have you waited about 2 minutes before restart?

[Delta-Z]

Zlobomir, on Jan 31 2008, 02:35 PM, said:

Have you waited about 2 minutes before restart?

No. I think I waited a little more than one minute. Is it supposed to take 2 minutes to update?

[Zlobomir]

Yes, if I remember correctly BM statement. He had some reasons to leave it so long.

[Delta-Z]

I trust those are good reasons, doesn't seem too reasonable to me...

[Satan]

In order to safely terminate connections from peers this must be this way.

[Delta-Z]

If it is really necessary, perhaps you should change the status message, not to confuse newbies like myself

[Zlobomir]

Welcome to the geeky universe. DC is not for newbies! Seriously, I prefer to see "what's going on behind the curtains". Otherwise it is like disconnecting your usb drive while Windows still keeps info in cache.

[Delta-Z]

Seriously, this is the big thing that is getting me down about Apex and open source development forums in general. Somehow the GUI is second class citizen or worse.
I do not say let's make it all work through f**kin wizards, but isn't it reasonable to have a clean and easy to understand GUI? Apex is really one of the simpler and nicer applications I use (me being a graduate CS student), but it has annoying glitches like this, that nobody is willing to even consider fixing.

[Zlobomir]

imo this one is not a glitch. The program just shows 1:1 what it is doing. It might be the simplest appy on the world, but it will still require some RingTFM. Go ask M$ about the non-deleting empty folders in XP, this is a glitch. I do not say Apex is perfect, but we (try to) fix things.