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Categorized Download option.... we are ready to add this option

Get file size when the "create new download" dialog appears .....please wait a little time,the size of file will  be shown

Showing the progress,speed....you can find it in "Drop zone" and also when you clicked it  the main window will be bring to front.

it's appreciate for you advices.

Defining categories by "filetype" seems to be not really a huge time saver.

If that is the extent of categorizing downloads - all exe in one folder, all zip in another - how is this a big time saver over just throwing everything into a single folder and then sorting / grouping by filetype?

In addition to some previous ideas on using categories,

http://forum.orbitdownloader.com/viewto … 8005#p8005
http://forum.orbitdownloader.com/viewto … 218#p12218

I think it could be useful to map one or more websites or download hosts to a category.

So for example -

Files downloaded from www.music.com   or  www.newsounds.com  might automatically default to the music category which is assigned to c:\downloads\music.

Files downloaded from www.weather.com  might default to the "satellite photos" category which is assigned to c:\downloads\maps

When downloading - the user is given the option to assign this and future downloads from the current site to an existing category (or create a new category & default folder).

Certainly it could be possible to group files based on filetype - but when most downloads can come as an exe, zip, rar, msi, mp3, wmv - it really doesn't seem to be much of a convenience or time saver, when separating files in a single folder (based on filetype) is such a trivial exercise in the first place.

Good idea

sorry I search already but didnt found this topic. Maybe you can rename topic name to something with some sense what it is about

cheers!

wow     

It would be nice to have link/url/bookmark manager/organizer in Orbit. Doesn't have to be fancy just something similar to what is found in browsers like IE and Firefox, it could be placed after the "competed" folder and its children, that are already found in Orbit.

There should be an option that lets you:
* Open the link in you default browser like by right-clicking or so.
* Export the urls to an "easy to read" format like txt or rtf (so that you always make and have a backup that is not application dependent).

If it only had this then it would really be perfect.

Last edited by perihelion (2008-09-03 2:25:04 PM)

I've just wiped my old xp system and reinstalled it with xp home edition again, upgraded to service pack 3,  and i'm using Flock for internet.

i've also just reinstalled orbit downloader which used to work fine.

i don't remember what some of the options in the setup box are for. 

for example, my downloaded files were not valid at first. (they were set to open with WINDOWS NOTEPAD)

But when i went in to change which program was used to open, there were a few different Orbit icons.  I selected p2p first, and went to upload to Youtube, but it stopped on about 52%--so i stopped and decided i'd ask here.

(they do say flv., though. That's what they're supposed to say, right?
could it have anything to do with the fact that i used to have a FLV. PLAYER?) 

which one do i set? p2p, orbit downloader, or grab it?

also, please PROVIDE A BASIC TUTORIAL/LINK on which settings i should check for the OTHER SETUP options.  i have no idea what some of these are for?

my GRABIT  icon doesn't hover on videos.
is this because i'M USING FLOCK AND NOT IE?  DOES FLOCK use Firefox? I DON'T THINK SO BECAUSE I TRIED TO SET IT FOR THAT AND IT CAME UP THAT I DIDN'T HAVE IT.

i was also reading about p2p option and virus.  please advise which setting to use FOR THE accelerator box OPTIONS?

Is there a link with general specific setup information for my system (I'VE SEEN MILLIONS OF SITES WHICH EXPLAIN USING ORBIT WITH IE, BUT THIS DOESN'T HELP THESE PARTICULAR PROBLEMS).

I RUN a video blog www.visualguidanceltd.com, and so obviously use this a lot, so i'd be grateful if someone could get back with me soon by email, as i need to upload a video to YT.

i also use a very old DELL DIMENSION 2400 WITH LITTLE MEMORY, SO I WOULD LIKE INFO ON MAKING SETTINGS TO USE AS LITTLE CACHE AND UCP(?) AS NECESSARY.  LIKE I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE 'ZIP SETTING' OR THE SERVER PATH OR NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS TO URL, ETC. 

I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ONE RESOURCE WHICH CLEARLY EXPLAINS EACH ITEM.

thanks,

mrjyn

i just downloaded new version of orbit and now it won't grab, i can't download anything?

Dear orbit forum i use DLmage an old download manager little and fast, this dl manager has size preview and zip preview. Inside [zip preview] i can download single or more files into zipped files.

Orbit can have a zip preview??? and maybe rar, 7z preview????

I don't wanna download and re-download entire mega giga archives i need only single or some files into compressed files (zip, rar and 7z), pls add this feature into orbit download manager.

How about getting the scheduler to work? Please please please!!!!

joric wrote:

Please make it to do not rename files to *.ob! and do not preallocate space. This sucks.

What you say has nothing to do with the thread topic. Go search the forum, I'm sure someone figured this before you

Perhaps this is the wrong thread to be posting this in, if it is I apologize in advance...

I'm finding the scheduler has nothing more than aesthetic appeal. It does not work in the fashion I'm sure it was designed and intended to...

Or am I doing something wrong here?!!

Any advise would be most welcome...