diff --git a/src/geant4_python_application/application.py b/src/geant4_python_application/application.py
index 81374ea..00c3017 100644
--- a/src/geant4_python_application/application.py
+++ b/src/geant4_python_application/application.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def _start_application(pipe: multiprocessing.Pipe):
 
 class Application:
     def __init__(self):
-        geant4_python_application.datasets.install_datasets(show_progress=False)
+        geant4_python_application.datasets.install_datasets(show_progress=True)
         self._detector = geant4_python_application.Detector(self)
 
         self._pipe, child_pipe = multiprocessing.Pipe()
diff --git a/src/geant4_python_application/datasets.py b/src/geant4_python_application/datasets.py
index 30cf7a2..45aa837 100644
--- a/src/geant4_python_application/datasets.py
+++ b/src/geant4_python_application/datasets.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from collections import namedtuple
 
 import requests
-import tqdm
+from tqdm import tqdm
 
 url = "https://cern.ch/geant4-data/datasets"
 data_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "geant4/data")
@@ -98,25 +98,35 @@
 )
 
 
-def _download_extract_dataset(
-    dataset: Dataset, progress_bar_position: int = 0, show_progress: bool = True
-):
+def _dataset_url(dataset: Dataset) -> str:
+    return f"{url}/{dataset.filename}.{dataset.version}.tar.gz"
+
+
+def _get_dataset_download_size(dataset: Dataset) -> int:
+    r = requests.head(_dataset_url(dataset))
+    r.raise_for_status()
+    return int(r.headers.get("content-length", 0))
+
+
+def _get_total_download_size(datasets_to_download: list[Dataset] = datasets) -> int:
+    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(
+        max_workers=len(datasets_to_download)
+    ) as executor:
+        futures = [
+            executor.submit(_get_dataset_download_size, dataset)
+            for dataset in datasets_to_download
+        ]
+        return sum(f.result() for f in concurrent.futures.as_completed(futures))
+
+
+def _download_extract_dataset(dataset: Dataset, pbar: tqdm):
     filename = dataset.filename
     urlpath = f"{url}/{filename}.{dataset.version}.tar.gz"
     r = requests.get(urlpath, stream=True)
     r.raise_for_status()
 
-    # Get the total file size for tqdm
-    total_size = int(r.headers.get("content-length", 0))
-    chunk_size = 4096
-    with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as f, tqdm.tqdm(
-        total=total_size,
-        unit="B",
-        unit_scale=True,
-        desc=f"Downloading and Extracting {filename}",
-        position=progress_bar_position,
-        disable=not show_progress,
-    ) as pbar:
+    chunk_size = 1024
+    with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as f:
         for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size):
             f.write(chunk)
             pbar.update(chunk_size)
@@ -131,7 +141,6 @@ def _download_extract_dataset(
         f.seek(0)
         with tarfile.open(fileobj=f, mode="r:gz") as tar:
             tar.extractall(data_dir)
-            pbar.update(total_size)
 
 
 def install_datasets(force: bool = False, show_progress: bool = True):
@@ -148,18 +157,24 @@ def install_datasets(force: bool = False, show_progress: bool = True):
     if len(datasets_to_download) == 0:
         return
 
-    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(
-        max_workers=len(datasets_to_download)
-    ) as executor:
-        futures = [
-            executor.submit(_download_extract_dataset, dataset, i, show_progress)
-            for i, dataset in enumerate(datasets_to_download)
-        ]
-        concurrent.futures.wait(futures)
-
+    with tqdm(
+        total=_get_total_download_size(datasets_to_download),
+        desc="Downloading Geant4 datasets",
+        disable=not show_progress,
+        unit="B",
+        unit_scale=True,
+    ) as pbar:
+        with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(
+            max_workers=len(datasets_to_download)
+        ) as executor:
+            futures = [
+                executor.submit(_download_extract_dataset, dataset, pbar)
+                for i, dataset in enumerate(datasets_to_download)
+            ]
+            concurrent.futures.wait(futures)
 
-def reinstall_datasets():
-    install_datasets(force=True)
+    if show_progress:
+        print(f"Geant4 datasets installed to {data_dir}")
 
 
 def uninstall_datasets():
@@ -167,7 +182,13 @@ def uninstall_datasets():
     package_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 
     if not os.path.relpath(package_dir, dir_to_remove).startswith(".."):
+        # make sure we don't accidentally delete something important
         raise RuntimeError(
             f"Refusing to remove {dir_to_remove} because it is not a subdirectory of {package_dir}"
         )
     shutil.rmtree(dir_to_remove, ignore_errors=True)
+
+
+def reinstall_datasets():
+    uninstall_datasets()
+    install_datasets(force=True)