Sometimes when users are transferring big files it can time out, like maybe the sender or receiver disconnects or something like that, leaving a partial file behind.
When this happened browsing IRC on pidgin, it asked me to save over the file and I lost all the data I had downloaded before.
I think I remember mIRC might have been able to resume partial files and pick up where it left off instead of re-downloading the same data. Is this true? If so, does it still this?
If no to either, I think this is a really good feature.
I'm also wondering if possibly there might be some way to resume partial files from torrents, or for torrents to resume partial files from IRC. But I'm not sure if this is possible, if files are built the same way or not. If it's possible that would be very cool.
