Questions tagged [download-manager]
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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Disable "Ask where to save each file before downloading" for one extension
My university has a Google Chrome extension to download notes from the portal. It allows us to download everything a professor has uploaded and automatically organises it in the OS file system. There ...
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How to find out where software is downloading files to?
Many times, online installers download files in order to run. I need to back them up. Is there any tool or something to find out where the files are saved to?
Example:
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How to disable this pop-up box when using Deluge BitTorrent Client?
I find that Deluge BitTorrent Client is faster than most other free BitTorrent download clients so I started using it.
But I somehow, no idea how I did it, enabled a little pop up box when I download ...
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Can files be easier corrupted by using download accelerator?
I am not very technically informed, so my question might not make sense at all.
I want to know if downloading files online using download manager/accelerator like IDM or eagleget tend to be more prone ...
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This video has not been mixed with the audio because the audio stream has a different format
I face the following problem from time to time when I want to download some video:
This video has not been mixed with the audio because the audio stream
has a different format
I want to know How to ...
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How to set the default download folder for uGet in Windows?
I am using uGet to download files and it downloads all my files into "C:\Users\Joe"
I need to download the files into D:\Downloads
I can't find such a setting in the general settings options ...
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Why do mostly zip format files get corrupt in download managers?
I have been using all kinds of download managers like IDM, Eagle Get and FDM etc. I discover one common point in all: sometimes zip format files get corrupt.
Why do mostly zip format files get corrupt ...
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How to solve corrupted downloaded files?
How do you solve the corrupted files after download? I have a slow internet connection that causing the downloaded file to be corrupted. The file is "zip" and about "3GB", I'm ...
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using lan and wifi at same time for different apps in windows
i have 2 internet in my house one is ADSL and the other is LTE. as you may know LTE provide higher speed but it's a little bit expensive for high data usage and ADSL provide lower speed than LTE but ...
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cant download a blob video
i am trying to download a video from a site. i looked up for solutions online apparently its a blob video i have seen people downloading blob videos from youtube as m3u8 file with jdownloader but here ...
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Custom download path by file type Windows 10
My grandmother uses a windows10 PC to download and view dewing and embroidery designs. The way her work flow goes is:
She finds a design she wants on the design library website
She downloads the ...
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What user-agent does DownThemAll add on extension convey to servers when executing within 2020 versions of Firefox Browsers? Any easy way to check?
What user-agent does DownThemAll add on extension convey to servers when executing within 2020 versions of Firefox Browsers? Any easy way to check?
The last googled info I could find on this was ...
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How can i disguise uGet as a browser to circumvent the disabling of an IDM by a website?
A website i have used uGet with in the past has swapped to cloudflare and blocked downloads through anything but a standard browser.
My understanding of the matter is pretty limited, but I gather it ...
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Is there an equivalent of a downloads list for attachments saved from MS Outlook?
In most major browsers, after downloading a file, you can press ctrl+J to open the list of downloaded files, then double-click on a recently downloaded file to open it (or click a folder icon to the ...
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downloading multiple files from google drive in one go
I want to download multiple files from google drive please see the following link
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByWO0aO1eI_MN1BEd3VNRUZENkU?fbclid=...
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Why my internet speed is slower than provided
I have an 8 mbps(bits/sec) which is equals to 1 MBps(bytes/sec).
Now when I check speed at speedtest.net by Ookla, the speed fluctuates between 7 mbps to 8 mbps and Windows Task Manager also shows ...
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How to open PDF files in browser if Chrono is installed?
Along with advatages of download managers like Chrono, I also get a lot of disadvatages. One of them is that I cannot open PDF files in browser anymore -- I can only download it and then need to find ...
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IDM done download but the download file is missing?
I test IDM (internet download manager) a little bit:
I go to youtube: https://youtu.be/J6TPVunLhkw
I catch the link, but instead of downloading, I copy the link:
https://r4---sn-8pxuuxa-nbole....
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Use PowerShell & System.IO.FileSystemWatcher to detect when a download to a specific folder is complete
I'm attempting to monitor my download folder and trigger a command-line action when a download is completed. This is very similar to another question, How to monitor a folder and trigger a command-...
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Can't refresh download link to continue downloading my file from google drive using IDM
I started downloading a 2.2 GB file from google drive using IDM (Internet Download Manager). Now I have downloaded 70% and IDM is saying to refresh the download link. I am unable to refresh the ...
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Firefox "Open Containing Folder" launches Filelight instead of file manager. How to fix?
I somehow changed which app is triggered by the "Open Containing Folder" option on downloaded files (as viewed in the download manager), so it now launches the Filelight disk-space-distribution viewer ...
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How can I download the same file from multiple URLs for increased speed?
I'm working on a Linux machine (relatively recent distribution). I want to download a file which is mirrored at two different (HTTP) servers. Now, the file is large and the download speed from each ...
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How to download a bulk of images from a list with their url? [closed]
I would like to download a list of png images. I have the url in a table (excel). How could I do this?
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I am seeing animated PNG files on some sites in lieu of GIFs. How can I save/download them?
I know how to save a GIF, it's super easy. Just right click and save. Voila! But with these new animated PNG's, I haven't the foggiest. Without using some sort of screen scrape where I'm grabbing the ...
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How do I display a download bar in Firefox?
I recently started using Firefox Quantum at work. Having previously used Google Chrome, it feels a bit strange having file downloads shown in a separate window. If possible, I would like to view my ...
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Internet download manager download .mkv file as .mk3d
i have an issue whenever i download a file with mkv format using idm it always saved as mk3d. When i download using the browser it save with correct format(mkv). What seems to be the problem?
I need ...
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How to save all files/links from a telegram chat/channel?
I want to save ALL http(s) links and/or files, posted to some telegram chat (private or group) or channel (like mailing list).
I need an analog of TumblOne (for tumblr) VkOpt (able to save chating ...
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Can I download a file in parts? [Chrome]
I want to download a 5 GB of file but according to my internet plan only 2 GB of high speed data comes per day. So, The question is "How can i download it in parts."
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Automatically download a file from Google merchant center
I am manually downloading a file from Google merchant center a couple och times a week.
Is there a plugin or app that can make this process automatically? The file is automatically uploaded to Google ...
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I get higher than normal CPU usage from "System" whenever transferring or downloading files
Whenever I am downloading something, or I am copying files from one place to another, I get higher than normal CPU usage (10% - 25%) from the "System" process (NT Kernel & System). If I pause the ...
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Internet download manager is capturing system and drives updates?
IDM is automatically capturing NVIDIA graphic driver updates, HP Support assistant updates, Any web browser updates (Mozilla or Chrome) , which are not supposed to be downloaded by IDM. How to stop ...
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how can download large files in chunks
I'm trying to download a 40GB file and save it directly to my USB Flash Drive because I don't have enough space on my local hard drive for the file.
I am also limited to 10GB download per day on my ...
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Adding a download to idm stopped
I have a question regarding IDM (internet download manager).
I’m trying to download a large amount of files and having all the files run at the same time would not only slow down my computer but all ...
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How to download similar pages?
There is a website that has pdf book or article inside it. for example
https://example.com/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=mdp.39015015603924;orient=0;size=100;seq=1;attachment=0
and the other pages ...
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Chrome suddenly disabled "IDM extension"?
I didn't have this problem till now, but today suddenly chrome disabled my "IDM extension" so i searched a lot, but the results i found were out-of-date (<2015) so is this problem solved or still i ...
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How make a list with all download URLs terminating with tar.gz within a web directory
So, I want download all files terminating with tar.gz in this URL per example:
http://ns334561.ip-5-196-65.eu/~fgscenery/WS2.0/
but i need it with format of a list like:
http://ns334561.ip-5-196-65....
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IDM Connected but Not Downloading File
I am Downloading a 2.1GB file using Internet Download Manager, and that is downloaded nearly 76%, but for some reason i paused the download, and after that its not resuming, "Resume Capability was and ...
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does idm remove temp file when you remove it from download list?
i just wanted to remove completed downloads from internet download manager list that by mistake i removed the downloading file with 25 gig size. i want to know is it possible to recover and resume ...
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Internet Download Manager does not download PDF file on specific sites
I am using Internet Download Manager latest current version. It is working well. But on some sites it is not downloading PDF files. Instead a box opens in Firefox like what to do with the file (save ...
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How does Download Management utilities control bandwidth usage?
I want to understand how utilities such as wget are able to rate-limit the download of a file by only consuming at most the provided rate.
Does it use QoS network features?
Or does it have a specific ...
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Download manager - prevent termination
i am trying to download a large datafile from www.kaggle.com on my Windows 7 system. (12 GB file). I unfortunately am in a location with somewhwat spotty internet, and every 6-7 hours have to ...
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Web download manager aware of only new and changed files
I'm looking for a web download manager that can be smart and only overwrite or rename only new or changed size files. A few times a year I need to freshen local copies of several tens to hundreds of ...
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How to manually merge files downloaded by IDM?
For the last couple of days, I've been downloading an .exe file; its size is about 1.73 GB. The TEMP folder was on E:\. When it's done, IDM merged about 1.5 GB
and gave me an error about no free ...
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Command line download manager that supports batch descriptors to download multiple files?
In the Firefox plugin donwloadthemall if yo use the batch descriptor, let's say http://.../image[000:999].gif, will start downloading all files:
image000.gif
image001.gif
image002.gif
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Tell wget to mirror the parts of an URI's path to folders
I have a list of URIs in a file uris.txt:
http://example.com/file1.pdf
http://example.com/file2.pdf
http://example.com/Folder/file3.pdf
http://example.com/Folder/Subfolder/file4.pdf
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Continue interrupted download of downthemall? (403 error)
I was downloading an ISO file of WINDOWS 10 to create an upgrade disk in windows 7 using a simple trick at : http://techdows.com/2015/08/use-this-trick-to-get-windows-10-iso-direct-download-links.html
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How to batch download 1 million direct file URLs?
How can I download 1+ million files that are stored in a text file?
I have tried several download managers and they are very slow when importing URL lists. Currently I have waited for 20 hours on ...
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What is “lightning downloader” [duplicate]
By a mistake I installed this on my system. Fast google search gave some sites that mark it as a malware etc and provide removal tools. However a fast google search about those sites shows that they ...
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How do I use HTTrack to download gzipped files from URLs with accented characters?
I am downloading a site with HTTrack with spotty results. Several directories return 2 or more versions of the same HTML file. These duplicates in any given directory may include:
a file named ...
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Does Limewire, Baearshare etc have a database? [closed]
I just found out that people are sharing songs that I created using programs called "Bearshare" and "Limewire". I always thought that these programs would search for music on thepiratebay, isohunt, ...
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