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Native Access; shutting down PC after completed download

TomislavEP

TomislavEP

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I have a wireless 4G router, so I do large downloads overnight. Unfortunately, Native Access doesn't have a built-in shutdown feature. I tried to use this program but it didn't work as expected:

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I tried to program a rule to shut down after the download speed drops below 1 Kbps for 10 minutes. The program was still running in the morning, though (after the download was completed).

Does someone have experience with this or a similar program in conjunction with NA? If so, I would appreciate the advice on how to set this. Thanks.
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If you use Windows, you can use CMD/Powershell to shut down the computer after X time. I do this myself sometimes when I'm downloading a very big library and want to go to sleep before it's finished.

Check out how much time there is left to download and adjust accordingly using this command:

shutdown -s -t [time in seconds until shutdown]

So for example, one hour would be 3600 seconds so the correct command would be the following:

shutdown -s -t 3600

Hope it helps!
 
Many thanks! I will certainly try this the next time I do a large download through NA.
 
I looked into Windows Task Manager as well; definitely one of the underappreciated tools (at least for me). Perhaps it will prove to be a better option to various 3rd party shutdown tools.

I hope that NI will eventually add the option to shut down the system after download; just a simple checkbox like you can see in Pulse Downloader. I don't have high hopes for this, though. Most other downloaders lack this option too.
 
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