- Apr 17, 2020
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Downloading large files from Mega through web browser is a bad idea. For some reason, only with Mega, it writes the file to browser storage and then it copies to your destination, therefore writing the file twice on your disk(s). Ex. this game's 1.37 GiB download results in 2.74 GiB of disk writes. Then after copying, Mega doesn't clear the file from browser storage (
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, command-line (will need some basic CLI experience), free, open-source software that skips that dumb shit. Download and extract latest experimental build (though "experimental", it is stable).- Open CMD
- cd to desired download directory (changing current directory works better than using the Megatools --path argument)
- path\to\megatools.exe dl "link"