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Old September 13th, 2001
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Default Saving time when putting together pieces of downloaded file

Hi!
Really great work you have done!

I was wondering, when my disk was noisy for a couple of minutes when XoloX put together the parts of a huge file downloaded from different hosts (~800Mb), wheather (if you have some spare time ;-) instead of copying it into one file, you might find a way to update the file table telling it, that you now have one large file which is stored in fragments on the disk instead of a huge number of smaller files stored in seperate files.
This would save time, do good to my hard disk and save system resources. The next time I would defragment my disk, all would be put together properly. Of course, this would require to find out how to access the file table, but this should be possible, since defragmentation programs are able to do this, too.

Best regards,

Björn