[josm-dev] Cancel while downloading relations

[Sebastian Klein]

Maarten Deen wrote:
> I downloaded a relation which contains a lot of relations. So I selected 
> them all and did "download members".
> These were some 140 relations.
> The downloading went fast until all of a sudden it stopped. This was 
> after about 84 relations.
> So I pressed cancel, expecting the downloaded relations to be in JOSM. 
> Much to my surprise they weren't.
> 
> Is there a technical reason for JOSM to discard already downloaded 
> relations when you press cancel? I would think that there is no 
> difference with getting them one at a time, it's only a faster way of 
> downloading more relations.
> If there is no technical reason, then I'm going to enter this is a bug.

Minor issues like this should be posted to the bug tracker directly. The 
mailing list is more for meta discussion and if you like to reach a 
wider audience.

Anyway, thanks for reporting it. We rely on you power users to find the 
bugs. :)

Sebastian