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[–] [email protected] 210 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (29 children)

Don't forget "This file has already been downloaded, do you want to download it again?"

And the options are to cancel or download again but you can't open the already existing file from the prompt, so you might as well just download that fucking PDF for the fifth time since it's not as if you knew where the bloody thing's been downloaded anyway!

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Click the name. It doesn't look like an option, because there are buttons for download or cancel, but the file name is also a link to the file.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It links to a file with that name. There have been times where I download a pdf and click the name only for my phone to open a different pdf than the one I was supposed to be downloading. Turns out they both had the same name.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It makes sense. I don't think it's possible to detect if the contents in two files are identical before downloading it, so all it can do is to compare the file name.

Anyway, the dialogue could be more helpful in this regard, but I guess that would also annoy or confuse some users.

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