Slowdown and freelocking from downloading entire channel data

[beskhu3epnm]

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Question

I use youtube-dl to pull duration stats from individual videos from entire channels and record them into a plain-text document. But the computer suffers extreme slowdowns and also freezelocks before completion of some larger channels. When I exit the console and go to run the command again, it overwrites the existing document.

My question is: is it possible to close the running command, and then when restarting proceed where you left off to release the memory load?

[beskhu3epnm]

Why was my question marked as closed?

[beskhu3epnm]

To clarify, I'm outputting the duration stats of an entire channel into a singular plain-text document.

youtube-dl --get-duration --ignore-errors --no-overwrites --continue "https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector" > TED-time.txt

[beskhu3epnm]

Still waiting on a response to this.