Exclude Failed Downloads from Clear Download Button

[peccable]

Clear Downloads currently also clears out all failed downloads along with completed ones, making it difficult to tell if you are missing files. Adding an option to only clear successful or cancelled downloads would make it clearer when downloading multiple files if any did not complete and need to be retried.

[Jon]

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[SamJ]

I absolutely agree. My work requires me to deal with both large files and numerous small files. Sometimes the larger files fail and if I accidentally clear it when I remove the smaller ones, either because its in the middle of the smaller files or because I need to shrink the length of the download list, I have to start over wasting a lot of time. It seems like it should be a simple fix, so make it happen. Would love it.

[j00kun]

Excellent! I am having problems clearing downloads, I always have to press the right button and end up pausing some.

[torowind]

Yes, this!

This is one of the most important features to not to remove failed downloads.

The icon for failed download is similar to a successful download, so its hard to find what hasn't downloaded if you download a bulk and don't check the result, you just trust the source and FF.

[meteorquake]

I would love to see this but I won't get my hopes high - many critical no brainers trivial to implement never see the light of day.

In the meantime I suppose probably easiest is to rename the filesystem base(s) of your downloads so all the downloaded symbols disappear (due to missing files) and you can then just see the failed symbols, which may mean scanning down by holding the arrow down so it refreshes them, then rename the filesystem base(s) back.

[Firestorm_ZERO]

Yes. Please add this.

I normally download files in background while browsing. There is barely any indicator that says the download has failed.

After downloading so many files, my download list in the Library just get so huge (like say 1000+). So I normally without a second thought, just click "Clear Downloads" to clean it up. But doing so also deletes failed downloads.

One time, I downloaded a bunch of files for work (eg File 001, File 002, etc..), forgot about it after a few days, saw my download list was long so clicked "Clear Downloads". When I went back to my download folder to start working on files I downloaded, I saw one of the files was missing. I thought to myself... did I miss one? Did I delete one of files by accident? Nope, I found out the issue was "Clear Downloads" also deletes failed downloads when clearing the list.