DeepSpace
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For me, this is not an issue, because it rarely crashes. But I can still see the benefit of naming the tmp files different until they are completed, not as an important feature, but as a comfort thingy to make it more clear what file is incomplete in the rare case it happens. So I can fully understand why you (and the devs when they hear it) don't think it is important, I don't think so either. But I also see no reason why it shouldn't be done at all. That is the point I tried to say. Same for the two AnyDVD requests that got rejected and the AS one. Only a few users might use or even notice these things, but they won't harm anyone who won't use them.How many times has AS crashed and you lost a download?
That's why I sometimes can't understand when things get rejected. Surely, there are other important things, like adding more poviders. But if it can help some people, at least take it into consideration for a time where the devs have bit of room for such things. And don't reject them right from the start.
I don't see a reason to set a tmp folder for AS. As far as I can tell, it directly writes to the output file and does not create useless files like yt-dlp and the other downloader does. So renaming the unfinished files as Chrome, Firefox etc do should be enough. That should only be a small change to the file creation handler, just write .tmp instead of .mp4. And the renaming to .mp4 gets added to the download finish procedure.There's any number of acceptable solutions to this.