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Subject: Re: Did this program ever actually work right?
Author: Bit_Saver
Date: 03/05/2020 20:46
 
> Well it was most likely never, at any point,
> completely bug-free, and many bugs, especially of
> the Windows interface, have been left there
> forever.
> 
> What's worse, the project is largely dead.
> 
> I was very surprised when...

You post echoes my thoughts. My experience with it has been an exercise in
knowing when to cut your losses.

HTTrack is complicated, unreliable, poorly documented, and mostly unsupported.
In my latest experience, it was broken by simple http > https 301 redirects.
That was supposedly fixed 15-16 years ago. Wget handled it with no drama.

Over the last 12+ years I have tried about 8-10 times to use HTTrack and had
partial success maybe once. I kept coming back because because it's free and
so many sites still (as of March 2020) point to it for mirroring like it's the
only free option.

Wget seemed like a scary command-line Linux thing that only programmers could
use. In the past few days, with its excellent manual in hand supplemented with
online communities, I have been having VASTLY more success on one project than
in a decade with HTTrack.

I'm just putting this here in case anyone else finds it out of desperate
frustration like I did. 
 
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