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  "id": 3994,
  "title": "Cannot download data files",
  "url": "/competitions/predicting-parkinson-s-disease-progression-with-smartphone-data/discussion/3994",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2013-03-08T01:28:16.760Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 3,
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  "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\r\n<p>I am logged in, but when I &quot;download&quot; the files, they are 0 bytes on my computer.&nbsp; Even the informational pdf files don't open up in my browser when I click on them, as if they have been deleted from your servers...?</p>\r\n<p>Also, I am wondering if we can use wget to download the files more easily.&nbsp; I tried using wget, passing my username and password, but I could not get the files that way either.</p>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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    {
      "id": "21166",
      "postDate": "03/08/2013 01:28:16",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\r\n<p>I am logged in, but when I &quot;download&quot; the files, they are 0 bytes on my computer.&nbsp; Even the informational pdf files don't open up in my browser when I click on them, as if they have been deleted from your servers...?</p>\r\n<p>Also, I am wondering if we can use wget to download the files more easily.&nbsp; I tried using wget, passing my username and password, but I could not get the files that way either.</p>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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      "id": "21170",
      "postDate": "03/08/2013 03:04:37",
      "content": "<p>The download links should now be working again. Sorry about the inconvenience.</p>",
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      "id": "21218",
      "postDate": "03/11/2013 06:23:25",
      "content": "<p>I have been trying to download the mjff_text_files.zip data file for the past few days and after it reaches about 700-900MB, something goes wrong and the download fails.&nbsp; I would like to use a browser downloader extension to handle the download so that I\r\n can recover my losses if the connection fails in the middle of this huge download, but due to your authentication mechanism, your site is preventing me from doing that.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Another option I have tried is using wget on a remove server, as I mentioned above, but I have not been able to do that either due to authenticaion issues.&nbsp; I tried: wget --user=me --password=mypass http://www.kaggle.com/c/predicting-parkinson-s-disease-progression-with-smartphone-data/download/mjff_text_files.zip,\r\n but that does not work.</p>\r\n<p>It seems unlikely that I will be able to download a 10GB file when I am restricted to using the &quot;Save As&quot; browser functionality.&nbsp; Do you have any suggestions?&nbsp; Thank you.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "21243",
      "postDate": "03/12/2013 00:22:29",
      "content": "<p>Hey Zhangli, sorry about the download issues. &nbsp;Per the data page:</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">The data files for this contest are BIG (up to 11GB compressed). You may have trouble downloading them on a slow connection. Fill out&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/request-data\">this form</a>&nbsp;if you encounter download timeouts.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">A note on download managers: for security, download links are only active for a short period of time (to prevent sharing of data to people who have not accepted the rules). &nbsp;Once started, the download can take as long as it takes,\r\n but it can't be resumed once stopped.</p>\r\n<p>Once you fill out the form I can give you a link that wont expire.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 21170,
      "author_name": "jeffmoser",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2013 03:04:37",
      "content": "<p>The download links should now be working again. Sorry about the inconvenience.</p>",
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      "id": 21218,
      "author_name": "zhangli",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/11/2013 06:23:25",
      "content": "<p>I have been trying to download the mjff_text_files.zip data file for the past few days and after it reaches about 700-900MB, something goes wrong and the download fails.&nbsp; I would like to use a browser downloader extension to handle the download so that I\r\n can recover my losses if the connection fails in the middle of this huge download, but due to your authentication mechanism, your site is preventing me from doing that.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Another option I have tried is using wget on a remove server, as I mentioned above, but I have not been able to do that either due to authenticaion issues.&nbsp; I tried: wget --user=me --password=mypass http://www.kaggle.com/c/predicting-parkinson-s-disease-progression-with-smartphone-data/download/mjff_text_files.zip,\r\n but that does not work.</p>\r\n<p>It seems unlikely that I will be able to download a 10GB file when I am restricted to using the &quot;Save As&quot; browser functionality.&nbsp; Do you have any suggestions?&nbsp; Thank you.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 21243,
      "author_name": "wcukierski",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/12/2013 00:22:29",
      "content": "<p>Hey Zhangli, sorry about the download issues. &nbsp;Per the data page:</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">The data files for this contest are BIG (up to 11GB compressed). You may have trouble downloading them on a slow connection. Fill out&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/request-data\">this form</a>&nbsp;if you encounter download timeouts.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">A note on download managers: for security, download links are only active for a short period of time (to prevent sharing of data to people who have not accepted the rules). &nbsp;Once started, the download can take as long as it takes,\r\n but it can't be resumed once stopped.</p>\r\n<p>Once you fill out the form I can give you a link that wont expire.</p>",
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