- When Monica starts you are presented with the main control window. You may add new downloads to the queue by dropping URLs dragged from your browser onto the main window, or by pasting a URL onto the "Paste/Drop URL here" field. The URL must be a file URL e.g. "ftp://ftp.is.co.za/pub/rfc/rfc1000.txt" ( leave out the quotes ). It may be an ftp or a http URL.
INFO: If you have a number of URLs listed in a text file, you may paste multiple URLs in one go.
INFO: You may also manually add URLs by pressing the "Add" button.
INFO: Some web links do not drag the correct file URL. This is a problem with the page HTML.
- Make sure you are connected to the Internet.
- You are now ready to start downloading. This you may do in one of two modes - Manual or Queued.
- Manual Downloading. This is useful when you want to control the download starts by yourself. To start a download, highlight a queued item then press the "Get It Now!!" button.
INFO: You cannot not start more that 4 simultaneous downloads in this fashion.
- Queued Downloading. This is where to downloading power of Monica begins to show itself! Press the "Start Queue" button and wait a few seconds. The items in the queue will automatically start downloading.
INFO: By default Monica allows 2 simultaneous downloads. You may set this to between 1 and 4 in the Prefs function.
- Monica will automatically restart downloads where the server stops the download before it is complete. Monica will also attempt to resume the download in such cases.
INFO: Note that by default Monica stores downloads in a folder called "Downloads". You may change this in the preferences.
INFO: Note that not all http/ftp servers support resuming. If not, Monica will start at the beginning.
- Monica attempts to set the MAC Type and Creator values for downloaded files based upon the file extensions. This is done via a list that is user-maintainable.
- When you have finished your session press the "Quit" button or close the main window.
