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[Feature Request] Add the ability to resume partial downloads via command line switch. #3748
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Presently my understanding is that to resume a partially downloaded file, one has to re-enter the command that they used to commence the download.
For users on slower connections or with specific bandwidth limitations at specific times of day, it's often the case that they have to pause a partial download and resume it later. Often there's more than one and it can be hard to track the URL of the download down again.
My suggestion is to allow for youtube-dl to remember the commands and URLs and local file locations given to it for downloads until those downloads are complete. That way, via a simple command line switch all the unfinished files can finish downloading one by one without having to re-enter the appropriate commands.