Why do download bars show 100% for more than 0 seconds?
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The popup window can only close when the file has been downloaded AND processed. The processing of a downloaded file can involve many things, but most commonly it just means the file is being written to the storage medium.
The download bar itself only tracks the actual download, not the part where it processes the downloaded data. Some programs will actually use a [second progressbar](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fHRaT.jpg) when the processing is expected to take a long time, but for the most part it happens fast enough that you don’t need an extra visual indicator.
The processing itself is quite unpredictable though, because it depends on the speed of your storage medium, the amount of the downloaded data that still needs to be processed, as well as system interrupts such as an antivirus checking if the data that is being written is actually safe.
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