I've used FlashGot and Free Download Manager for a long time, and have always found them to work well. They're freeware.
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H1gh Contra5t  All-Star Member  "My asshole just naturally opens up because that's what I want, I'm so horny for it" 8498 Posts 1/13 |  Posted - Jan 13 2013 : 8:09PMHi there, forum newbie here. I'm writing here because I desperately need some help with a piece of software and I need to know what I am doing wrong. I download from some of the top websites that I have paid membership to, and to do this efficiently I use a program called Internet Download Manager (IDM). This is the second piece of software that I have tried to use for its intended purpose (the other being Download Accelerator Plus 10) but the same problem remains - despite me saving my Login details for every website I have membership to, IDM/DAP10 still requires Login information before the download can start or continue after being Paused. I have systematically entered the server name of the file, the username, and the password for each site I am a member of. Why on earth then, when the first file has downloaded does the next one in the queue not start, and always - and I mean always - ask me to enter my membership details? Furthermore, why when I do enter my details, does the box reappear asking me to enter it again? I have already saved it in the 'Site Logins' tabs and also in the Properties tab of the actual file, so this is utterly confusing and immensely frustrating for me. Other times, I will get an error telling me that the webpage has expired even though it is still open in my browser. I have to clear it from the IDM and re-save it as the first file in the queue to actually get it to download. I have exactly the same problem for when I have Paused or Stopped a file in the middle of a download and then tried to Resume it. When I go to Resume it asks for the Login details, I input them, it keeps asking for them and in the end I have to remove it and start again. I spend most of my time out of the house, which means I get the most out of my membership by leaving files to download while I am out of the house. But nothing is more annoying to find that I have been out all day and all I have got when I come back is one bloody file because the next hasn't started because its wanting my membership details. I would think the most important utility of a download manager is for it to be configured to effectively manage your downloads while you are not at your PC. But alas neither IDM (which I am currently using), or DAP10 in the past, have allowed me to do this it seems. This is even more galling when you consider that I actually paid for legitimate full copies of both of these programs. So what I am asking for really, is a foolproof step-by-step guide on how to set up IDM (or DAP 10) so that whatever I queue to download will automatically start downloading once the previous file has finished, and that if I should want to Pause/Stop and then Resume later it will simply carry on and finish without asking for Login details. Either that, or some general pointers to some basic things that I may be overlooking, or as a last resort, an alternative download manager that does not have these issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I am being ripped off by paying money for these programs and despite setting up through seemingly simple options, am not getting what I am paying them to do. Many thanks in advance. [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Jan 13 2013 : 8:28PM I've used FlashGot and Free Download Manager for a long time, and have always found them to work well. They're freeware. [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Jan 13 2013 : 8:44PM Jacco [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Jan 13 2013 : 9:50PM [Link] |
| H1gh Contra5t All-Star Member "My asshole just naturally opens up because that's what I want, I'm so horny for it" 8498 Posts 1/13 | Posted - Mar 25 2013 : 4:28AM Apologies for dragging this thread up again but it is just so frustrating when all I want is a simple download manager, and when I use ones that everybody else recommends/has no problems with, I have nothing but problems with them. It's like whatever one I try that anybody suggests, there's something really basic that it does not do. Any advice on how to properly use FDM or FlashGet or configure DTA in Firefox so that I do not get these problems would be extremely helpful. [Link] |
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| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 25 2013 : 8:38PM Edited by - Harri Patel on 3/25/2013 8:41:39 PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 25 2013 : 8:49PM [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - Mar 1 2014 : 10:26AM I have never, ever used a download manager before but now I've started joining porn sites it's dawning on me pretty quickly that it might be a good idea to have one. Could someone possibly help me with an overview of exactly what download managers are, how to use them & recommend one please? Thanks! [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 1 2014 : 2:08PM A download manager will allow you to pre-define how many files you want to download simultaneously, for the most part, they will allow failed downloads to be restarted where you left off (they will attempt to do that automatically). They can also increase download speeds by downloading files in "chunks" simultaneously. Rather than downloading a file in one piece, they will break that file up into a pre-determined (by you) number of pieces and then reassemble those pieces when they are all finished being downloaded. So, if you attempted to download a 600MB file, and were setup for 4 segments, behind the scenes, 4 downloads of 150MB would take place. [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - Mar 1 2014 : 2:20PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 1 2014 : 6:24PM But, realistically, with paid sites, you're really still talking about selecting files to be downloaded one at a time. But, you can stack up as many as you want in a download manager and allow them to download in whatever manner works best for your connection. With the sites that I belong to, a single download can be downloaded at full speed (I pay for 50Mbps, but actually get a little over 70Mbps), so I just let the files download one at a time. But, when I've first joined sites, I've had as many as 40 or 50 scenes stacked up in the download queue waiting their turn. [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - Mar 2 2014 : 3:00AM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 2 2014 : 12:06PM I've never used Free Download Manager. But, if Harri Patel says that he likes it, it must be OK. [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - Mar 2 2014 : 2:04PM [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - May 2 2014 : 2:44PM Okay, so I've started using FDM but still finding it tedious selecting scenes individually and loading them into the manager. Does anyone know how to download a full page of links using FDM without having to select them all one by one? Tried playing around with it but I'm too much of a noob to figure it out for myself - the manual is as clear as mud too. Any help greatly appreciated. Edited by - N00dlesDaddy on 5/3/2014 6:10:43 AM [Link] |
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| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - May 3 2014 : 11:25AM [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - May 3 2014 : 2:52PM Edited by - N00dlesDaddy on 5/3/2014 5:36:08 PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - May 3 2014 : 10:09PM If you've seen sites that don't work that way and really want to download everything on that page, try Download 'em all or Flashgot (pointing to JDownloader). They both have the option to download every link on a page. There are some places where that is a useful option. But, IMO, it doesn't work for paysites. [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - May 4 2014 : 2:36AM [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - May 4 2014 : 3:26PM [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - May 4 2014 : 6:16PM [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - May 5 2014 : 5:09PM Then open FDM and click: File-->Import-->Import list of downloads and then point to the file bigasslinklist.txt This will load the whole list into FDM in a single step. Or you fine tune this further by using the firefox add-on addmoretexttoclipboard which will allow you to use the clipboard instead of notepad, which might be easier way to accumulate all the links without the back-and-forth switching to/from notepad. In that case you would do: file-->import-->import list of URLs from clipboard Or you can use something like akelpad instead of notepad. With akelpad you can set it for "always on top" which eases the back-and-forth of creating the .txt file. You still have to browse the paysite to pick/choose which files you want to download. I don't see any reasonable way around that. I don't know of any website where I'd want to download absolutely everything without doing at least a cursory look before committing to use up HDD space and internet bandwidth. I think FDM has the capability to do what you want in a more automated way than my suggestions above, but it'd be difficult to teach/learn via a forum such as this. Hope this helps. Edited by - ninja1 on 5/5/2014 7:03:40 PM [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - May 7 2014 : 9:46AM One more question about FDM (and, yes, I've done a general search on this but no joy): from time to time one of my downloads will stop for no apparent reason that I can understand. Sometimes the download can be on 90+ percent when this happens. If I try to resume it, a pop-up says "access denied: invalid username/password". All I can do then is delete it and load it in again. This happens completely arbitrarily and is a real head-scratcher; it might happen once for every ten downloads - don't understand it at all. Does anyone know if there is a way to resume these 'halted' downloads without having to start over? By the way, I'm currently using FDM to download from Bangbros.com (and only that) if that makes any difference. [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 7 2014 : 2:18PM Jacco [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - May 7 2014 : 3:49PM [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 7 2014 : 8:19PM Maybe you should try it with the password option switched on, then your dl-manager can resend your credentials if it gets that error. Jacco [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - May 7 2014 : 9:02PM Are you using Firefox browser? Based on what you have revealed in your posts here, DownThemAll (a Firefox add-on) quite likely can do what you want, with less complexity than FDM. DownThemAll will detect and load all the links; and you just click the checkboxes to select/unselect the ones you want before clicking 'start'. FDM is overly complex for your requirement IMO. Edited by - ninja1 on 5/7/2014 10:07:24 PM [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - May 8 2014 : 1:27AM [Link] |
| N00dlesDaddy Senior Member Layla...got me on my knees... 1793 Posts 7/13 | Posted - May 8 2014 : 8:38AM [Link] |
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