Readers’ Tips
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TIP OF THE FORTNIGHT
Turn off sleep until video downloads finish
I’ve had some success using 4K Video Downloader Plus (www.snipca. com/53999), which was your main program in Issue 705’s Best Free Software (page 18). But around half of the videos I was trying to download would fail halfway through.
I was digging through the program’s settings looking for an answer, and found it with the ‘Prevent system sleep until downloads are finished’ option. I realised then that my downloads were being halted if my computer went to sleep during the process. This setting overrides sleep, and since activating it I’ve not had a single failed download.
Turn it on by clicking the top-right Preferences icon (a 2 cog) then selecting Advanced on the left ( 1 in our screenshot) and moving the slider so it turns green 2 . I’ve also turned on the ‘Play notification sound’ slider in the Notification section, so I get a beep when the download has completed.
Frank Delaney
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