Downloads

Options - Downloads

Download folder selection and download options.

Current folder for saving files
Specify the folder to which you want to save downloaded files.

Download folder detection type
The following options are available:

Detect download category (by file extension). Depending on a file extension IDA will add downloads to the corresponding category and save file to the download folder specified for this category.
Create subfolders by date. IDA will use YEAR_MONTH_DAY pattern to create subfolders for saving files.
Use the last used folder as the current folder. The last selected download folder will be set as the current folder.
Create subfolders based on URL. IDA will create subfolders identical to the path to a file on the server.
Do not use category detection. All downloaded files will be saved to the default or user-specified folder.

( i ) If you specified download folders for certain sites in Site Manager, IDA will use Site Manager rules for downloads from those sites.

Create subfolders by date
If this flag is set Download Master will create subfolders in yyyy_mm_dd format and save downloaded files into them.

Download settings

Maximum number of simultaneous downloads
Specify the maximum number of simultaneous downloads.

Maximum number of sections for one download
Specify the maximum number of sections for one download.

Maximum number of errors for one download
Specify the number of error after which download will be stopped.

Restart a section if it does not receive data more than
The time (in secs) after which Internet Download Accelerator will restart a section, which does not receive data.

Pause between attempts to connect if an error occurred
The time (in secs) after which Internet Download Accelerator will make the next attempt to connect.

Minimal size for opening a new section
You can specify minimal size of sections into which a file being downloaded is split.