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human
ELI5: what happens to the dowloaded parts of a file when the download was interrupted? where does it go?

say i'm downloading a 4mb mp3 file. the downloader says i've already downloaded 3mb of it. then i lost the internet connection and the download was interrupted. where does that 3mb go?

edit: thank you guys! i really appreciate the explanations you gave.
gpt
They go into some kind of temporary file. For example, Chrome uses a file called "name of file.crdownload" in the Downloads directory. Others hide the file in some other directory. Most of the time, if the download is interrupted or aborted, the file is deleted.