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A download manager is an application that is responsible for downloading files. Download managers are often included with modern browsers, although there are standalone download managers out there as well.

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Autoselect destination folder in DownThemAll 2

I read somewhere that you could set up filters in DownThemAll 2 Firefox extension, so that some files would be automatically sent to folder A, and other files to folder B. I've been poking around in ...
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Which download manager can tell the download queue size [closed]

I have Internet Download Manager installed but the problem is thus: I have 200 links in the queue. I want to find that how much in total GB I have in the queue to download. Is there any download ...
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Quick way to bypass proxy with DownThemAll

I've been using an SSH proxy to my home network to encrypt my internet surfing, which is fine. But the connection is much slower than the direct one, and when I'm downloading large files I'd rather ...
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Download of some files keeps getting stuck at certain point

I'm having this problem where everytime I download a particular file, the download would progress to a certain point and pauses there, for example, when I try to download the TCPOptimizer software ...
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Does Chrome's Download Manager resume downloads if the connection is lost or closed?

Does Chrome's Download Manager resume downloads if the connection is lost or closed?
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windows xp going to restart when I use IDM

I have installed Internet Download Manager (IDM), I download any file using IDM when it is going to finish it always restart my Windows XP. Please help me.....
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Chromium Downloading Filenames with Spaces

I am downloading files from Chromium 7.0 on Ubuntu 10.10. If the filename contains spaces, then it doesn't open the file correctly. Chromium seems to pass on the filename unescaped, so most ...
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Download Manager for Mac OS X? [closed]

IS there a download manager for Mac OS X that allows me to interrupt and resume large downloads? (I'm trying to download the Apple Developer Tools update, but a 3+ GB file size seldom plays nicely ...
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HOw can i start IDM Internet download manager queue on window restart

I am downloading files with IDM. My problem is when my computer restrats the i have manually click on start queue to start downloading files. Is there any way or setting so that when my computer ...
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Mac download manager that supports login and recovery options?

I login to this site to download files, and my Internet connection keeps going out. Is there a Mac download manager that can download these files, and have recovery options? My files are like 2GB ...
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Is there a software that can crawl a webpage, discover all files with a given extension and download them all? [closed]

Is there a software that can crawl a webpage, discover all files with a given extension, and download them all? It can be a standalone software or a Firefox add-in.
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Need a download manager for Ubuntu over network

I am trying to download a 22gb file over a slow vpn connection. The file is not hosted so what I did was just "connect to remote server" via Ubuntu, navigate to the directory where the file is and ...
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Can I use an external download manager with Chrome?

Can I use for example axel as the default downloader for Google Chrome?
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Recursively mirroring a hosted blog

I am not asking how to download a standard webpage, or website tree, as I know how to do that. The problem I am having is that wget/downloadthemall/HTTrack/FDM/IDM, etc., do not seem to work with the ...
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How do I get rid of the Adobe Download Manager

Somehow I have got the Adobe Download Manager installed on my PC, and it opens up periodically. I don't know what triggers it. How can I get rid of it?
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Flash downloader for linux firefox [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Youtube and Google video downloaders ? Do you know any ? I mean something which could allow me for example to download yt movies.
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Free command line download manager with queue possibilities on Windows XP?

I am looking for a free command line download manager with queue possibilities on Windows XP. This looks like it might work but it's not free: http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/support/...
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A good multithread downloads manager for Linux? [closed]

Does someone knows a good multithread downloads manager for linux? I am using Lucid Lynx, I use to use multiget but it hasn't been updated since 2007. I'd like it to support login for sites like ...
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Bittorrent program that can download from both BT seeds/peers AND one or more HTTP sources?

I know Bittorrent is often used for illegal downloading and whatnot, but I mostly use it on the rare occasion to download things like Linux distributions. Many of these download sources let you ...
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download files from a windows machine [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Download manager to replace GetRight? Hi there, I am completely clueless when it comes to Windows sorry. If I am running Windows XP, what is a good program for download http/...
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need a download manager for ubuntu?

hi i recently shifted to ubuntu 10.4.. and need a download manager. I was very comfortable with FDM(free download manager) on windows, which used to do everything form download huge file with pause ...
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Resuming downloads in Firefox (using a download manager)

I just tried Free Download Manager (FDM), again, having the Firefox addon Flashgot use it. The download gets passed to FDM, and fails, giving the error message "access denied, invalid username or ...
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Mega Manager for Mac OS X (MegaUpload) [closed]

There are many download manager and/or accelerator that work with MegaUpload under OS X, but I 'm searching for an OS X alternative to Mega Manager: it manages multiple upload and download to/from ...
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Do you know of any download accelerator that can resume partial downloads from wget?

I have used wget to try to download a big file. After several hours I realized that it would have been better to use a download accelerator. I would not like to discard the significant portion that ...
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Download manager for file hosting sites like Megaupload, Mediafire [closed]

Do you know of any download manager for file hosting sites like Megaupload/Mediafire that I can use so that after one file has been downloaded the other will continue?
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Firefox isn't using my download manager (flash videos)

I installed "Free Download Manager." I see the plugin in Tools->Add-ons (it doesn't have any options). I use several different flash video downloaders, because I haven't found one that works period ...
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64 / Safari / Downloads disappear

Running Safari 4.0.5. When I download a file, it never appears in the download folder. If I pause the download I get the xxxxxx.xxx.download temp file to show up. When I then resume the download, ...
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Free Download Manager Auto-Upload

Does Free Download Manager automatically upload my torrents when I download them? If so, is there a way to prevent it?
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Rapidshare download manager accessible over network

Basically I am looking for a download manager, which I can run on my server to download rapidshare files, while also being able to access it over the network via a standalone client application or web ...
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Download the other half of the half downloaded video and download managers for Linux

I tried downloading several videos last night on Chrome but most of them are downloaded incompletely. Is there a software that reads the flv or ogg files and downloads the rest of the file from the ...
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Group downloads by originating domain

Can I automatically group downloads by domain (e.g. place it in corresponding folders inside Downloads directory)? I'm using Google Chrome and looks like it must be done by some sort of download ...
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problem with free download manager

I have installed fdm on my computer in order to continue downloads after a shutdown. But there is one problem. It slows down my browsing even if I have already paused the downloads(downloading at ...
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Sort downloads by domain name automatically, in Firefox?

Is there a way to force images and executables to automatically download into separate folders in Firefox? I found this extension, but it doesn't work when I right-click-->save image as
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Any free download manager for Linux compatible with Chromium [closed]

Right now I have no other choice but to open the desired link in Firefox and then download it with DownThemAll! It would be great to find an alternative to DownThemAll! for Chrome.
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Is there a download manager like Tucan in KDE? [closed]

Tucan Manager is a free file sharing application designed for 1-Click Hosters like Rapidshare or Megaupload. It has captcha resolution, interchangeable links, premium user accounts, and many other ...
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Is it possible to resume downloading file from a different url?

Are there software tools specifically for ms windows such as file downloaders that can be used for downloading partially downloaded file when url of downloaded file changes?
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Command-Line FTP/HTTP download manager that supports multiple connections

I'm looking for a command-line download manager that can: Download from FTP and HTTP Open several TCP connections to accelrate the download Supports resuming It would be nice if it had ports to ...
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Mass downloading a set of URLs with login [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I download an entire website I'm looking a mass-downloader to help me download the entire database from a site I have an account on. The requirements are simple: ...
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Is there a plug-in to have Firefox Download Manager save files with the modified time? [closed]

I would like Firefox to automatically update the modified time of a downloaded file to the modified time indicated in the HTTP headers. This would allow me to more easily determine when a particular ...
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Any Open source download managers? [closed]

I am regular user of flash get and i am happy with that. But recent times I am downloading lot of videos from youtube. Flashget doesn't support youtube downloads and I would like to write my own based ...
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Downloads in high speed with Google Chrome

Is there any plug-in or something which is the same as DownThemAll for Firefox? Just need to have a kind of download manager for Chrome but better that Chrome has built-in.
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How do i make any application use my eth0:0 interface?

Like in curL, we have a bind address option, we can download using a certain interface.. For ex, to download from eth0:0 we use $curl --interface eth0:0 http://www.google.com This way, my aim is to ...
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What is the fastest BitTorrent client? [closed]

Does anyone know which BitTorrent client gives you the fastest download rates? For eg: I came across BitTyrant which claims its 70% faster than most.
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Firefox addon to organize downloads [closed]

Is there a firefox addon to re-direct downloads to different folders based on conditions? For example: if file is a video format download to "My Videos" if file is a picture format download to ...
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Download manager to replace GetRight? [closed]

I've been happily using GetRight for the last 10 years or so, and today I found out (the bad way) that it won't work in Windows 2008 64-bit. What is a good modern alternative that'll pretty much do ...
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Download managers for downloading over LAN

There are some problems with leeching (downloading files at a LAN) such as prioritizing your downloads and the screen real estate that the generic copy-windows take up. What download managers can ...

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