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Resuming an interrupted file transfer
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f you lose your connection to another computer while transferring files, File Transfer Recovery lets you
connect again and continue the transfer where it left off. Any file—or portion of a file—copied before the
interruption is skipped; only the untransmitted data is copied.
File Transfer Recovery lets you continue a file transfer even
when you have lost a connection. Instead of starting the
transfer at the beginning, File Transfer Recovery resumes
at the point where the connection was lost:
• Only the missing part of the interrupted file is copied.
• Files successfully copied before the interruption are not
copied again.
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File Transfer Recovery is particularly useful when
you copy large files over an unreliable modem connection.
To resume an interrupted file transfer:
• If you were running an Xchange Agent when the inter-
ruption occurred, run the agent again.
• If you were transferring from File Transfer windows:
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Re-establish the connection.
2
Select the same files and folders.
3
Begin the transfer again.
If you lose a connection while
transferring a file, the data
transferred at the point of inter-
ruption is stored on the target
computer.
When you reconnect and
resume the transfer, the miss-
ing part of the file—not the
entire file—is copied, along with
the remaining files.
