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Software needs to show useful errors, allow retrying on failure, and backup the extractions seperately

Open Lewis8379 opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

I did some downloading, where the extraction worked fine, but the downloading failed. Frustratingly, the software doesn't seem to provide any actual details of why the downloading failed, nor does it allow me to retry, wasting all of the prior effort of extraction.

Enhancement suggestions:

  • Show useful error messages
  • Allow retrying
  • Backup the extraction (or allow me to do it seperately) so it doesn't have to be done again if it's the downloading that fails

Lewis8379 avatar Aug 02 '22 17:08 Lewis8379

These are really good recommendations but right now I am a bit busy, once I am free I will start working on an update with some requested features. Feel free to submit a PR if you interested as well,

ps. You can find the app logs to understand better why an error happened at %localappdata%\Linkedin-Learning-Courses-Downloader\app-1.2.0\logs

ahmedayman4a avatar Aug 02 '22 19:08 ahmedayman4a

Thanks for the reply, that's good to hear. In order, I think allowing me to retry would be the most useful thing.

Sadly I'm not a programmer so cannot contribute any code, but I'm happy to slip a donation your way.

Next time the download fails, I'll look in the logs, thanks. Might be worth popping that on the readme.

Thanks again! :)

Lewis8379 avatar Aug 02 '22 22:08 Lewis8379