Cannot Even Complete A Model Downloading

[MilesQLi]

System Info

GPT4All Windows

Information

• [X] The official example notebooks/scripts
• [ ] My own modified scripts

Related Components

• [ ] backend
• [ ] bindings
• [ ] python-bindings
• [ ] chat-ui
• [X] models
• [ ] circleci
• [ ] docker
• [ ] api

Reproduction

Just install and click the shortcut on Windows desktop. Then select a model to download. Never completes, and when I click download again, it starts from beginning. This keeps happening forever.

Expected behavior

Continue the progress if the download is intercepted for whatever reason.

[manyoso]

What version. This is almost always a networking issue in the client side. Firewall or proxy or your isp

[MilesQLi]

v2.4.4. I know it is networking, I'm using the school VPN. But it should continue rather than start from beginning each time I click download.

[mishazawa]

After completion model disappeared. MacOS v2.4.4

[mishazawa]

@MilesQLi I download model from site and place into folder with app and it works.

[AdamMiltonBarker]

I have this also, downloaing the model doesn't work, cannnot move past that window.

[brankoradovanovic-mcom]

Happened to me too today. Here is what I think is going on: the download did complete (after half a dozen or so restarts), the app then calculates the MD5 (or whichever checksum that was) to verify the download - as it should - but if the checksum is wrong, it appears that it just unceremoniously deletes the file and you're back to square one. True, there is nothing one can do about it when it happens, but it's annoying.

[kevnoutsawo]

@manyoso Unstable network is the issue at times but ideally, the process should be resilient and tolerant to network-related issues. If the connexion is stopped, it should pick up from where it left off and continue as soon as the connexion is back. Likewise, the UI should be refreshed to reflect the current state of things and take the guesswork out of it. Sometimes it stops and the progress bar is still displayed with the connexion speed beside it, the only thing that gives a hint is that the connexion speed does not fluctuate anymore. Then you have to cancel the download and launch it again for it to continue which should be done automatically.

[kevnoutsawo]

@MilesQLi I download model from site and place into folder with app and it works.

That seems to be a better solution, that way we can use a proper download manager. I'll try it. Thanks.

[nav9]

As mentioned here, I could solve it by using Turbo Download Manager Firefox extension.

[niansa]

Seems like a duplicate of #477