IPSW Downloads Being Overwritten with Empty Files

[Error-freeIT]

I have found that running the same command twice will overwrite any existing ipsw files with empty (zero byte) files. Example command:
./precache.py --cache-ipsw-group iPod -o /path/to/ipsw/

I was hoping precache would do one of the following:

• download and replace any existing local ipsw files, regardless of whether they are already cached or not
• skip any ipsw downloads that match a filename (e.g. iPod5,1_9.3.5_13G36_Restore.ipsw) already in the local ipsw directory

Maybe adding an argument such as --ignore-cache-status or --force-download would be possible?

[carlashley]

Interesting - I thought I had a file check in place, but obviously haven't.

I've been itching to re-write this again to try and improve a few things, so don't think I'll get a fix in place right away, so I'd suggest do the IPSW run once, and then move them to a safe location, and not doing a subsequent run.

Due to time constraints and other projects, this won't be for a while, possibly in a week or so.