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.topic howtoDown .title "How to download a site" I am going to try to guide through the steps of downloading a site. <ul> <li>First of all you need a site to download, sounds pretty simple but without it we won't go far. <li>Then click on the icon on the left, a dialog window will appear in which you can enter the url. If you had put the url in the clipboard before clicking on the dialog, you will see it in the entry, ready for downloading. <li>If you click on the left button, the one with the 'Options' label, a new dialog will appear, here you will be able to set the options for the download. The available options are: <a name=Options> <ul> <li>Links <ul> <li>Up links Check this option if you want to download links that are above the one you entered. For example, if you entered the url http://www.somedomain.com/daily/monday/index.html and you only want to download the files under the monday directory, then you have to uncheck this option. <li>Update If you have already downloaded a site and now you want to update with the changes made since the last time you downloaded it, then check this option. <li>CGI Check this option if you want Getleft to follow links to CGI scripts, in practice, if you check it, Getleft will download links that include '?' in the url. </ul> <li>Levels <ul> <li>Levels Here you can put the number of levels of recursion that Getleft will search for files, for example, the url you entered is level '0', the links in that page are level '1',.... The default, with the option unchecked, is no limit. <li>External levels Here you can set whether you want Getleft to download links outsite the domain of the url you entered, for example, if you entered http://www.somedomain.com/daily/monday/index.html, should Getleft follow a link to http://www.anotherdomain.com/diary/january/index.html? <img src=warning>It is very easy to download more than you want. </ul> <li>Filters <ul> <li>Get map If you check this option, Getleft will first download all the Html pages in the site (or at least all that match the rest of the options) and then show a dialog with all the links found so you can choose which of them to download. <li>Only Html If you only want to download the Html pages in the site, check this option. <li>Choose Filter Pressing this button you will be shown a dialog in which you can choose the extension of the files you don't want to download. </ul> <li>Images <ul> <li>All All images will be downloaded. <li>Only thumbnails Only the thumbnails will be downloaded. <li>No thumbnails and the opposite. </ul> </ul> Save makes the current options be the default options for Getleft and Load sets the current options to the default values. Notes: <ul> <li>When the dialog pops up it will keep the options of the last download. <li>During a download you will be able to change the options by using the button with the hammer and wrench in the downloading window. <li>You can also change the options of a site while it is in the queue, right click on it to choose the 'Change options' entry in the popup menu. </ul> <li>After setting the options you have to decide whether you want to start the download inmediately, or wait for a better time, whatever you choose, check the 'Start now' option accordingly. Note <ul> <li>During a download you can enter more urls for future downloading, they will be put in the queue no matter what the 'Start now' button says. </ul> <li>Now you have to choose where you want to save the downloaded site, choose a directory and click on 'Accept'. <li>Getleft will now download the url you entered, if the url is a Html page with links in it, you will now see a dialog with all the links that match the given options, here you can choose which of these links will be downloaded and which will be ignored. If you right-click in this dialog, a menu will appear to help you choose, you will also be able to change the downloading options, the links will change depending on them. It is possible that no links are found with the current options, right click on the dialog to change them. <li>Accept this dialog and you are done, Getleft will now download the site on its own. If you want to pause the download, or stop it before it is over, you can do it with the buttons in the downloading window. If you stop it, you will be asked if you want Getleft to keep the download in the queue to continue later. </ul> .topic howtoTwoSites .title "How to download two files simultaneously" The short answer is that you can't, not with Getleft. As usual the long answer is more complicated: <ul> <li>If you want to download two sites at the same time, you can do it simply by running Getleft twice and downloading one site from each instance of the program. Eventually, I will release version 2.0 of Getleft that will be able to download several sites simultaneously. 'Eventually', by the way, is more than six months. <li>But if you want to download more than one file from the same site at the same time, I am afraid you will have to use another program, I don't think Getleft will ever do that, as I don't think we have the right to monopolize servers, I mean, I don't want to turn Getleft into a one man slashdot effect. </ul> Besides, you must consider that the bandwidth your ISP allocates you is not going to grow because you are downloading more than one file. That means that it is only worth it if one of the servers you are downloading from is slow, otherwise all the files will download more slowly than they would if you were downloading only one and Getleft will take pretty much the same time anyway. If you disagree with what I just said, please, don't hesitate to let me know. .topic howtoAuto .title "How to download all the sites in the queue" If you have several sites in the queue and you want Getleft to download them all without asking you any questions, you only have to: <ul> <li>Select the sites you want to download, in case you want to download them all, you can simply clear the current selection by pressing the 'Esc' key. <li>Click on the 'Automatic' button, the one with the two arrows. </ul> Getleft will change the colour of the sites you selected and start downloading them all, one after the other. If you want to stop Getleft, click on the 'Auto' button again, the current site being downloaded will keep being downloaded on manual mode. .topic howtoDelay .title "How to program a delay" Imagine you want to download a site but not right now, maybe it is cheaper to do it at night, or maybe you get better speed at certain hours. So, how can you do it? It is quite simple really, you only have to: <ul> <li>Click on the button with the hourglass icon. <li>A dialog will appear with all the options you need (so if you think you need more options, it is just your imagination). <ul> <li>Time section: Here you have to set the time at which Getleft will start downloading and whether it will stop at a given time or continue the download till it is complete. <li>Stop section: If you gave a time when to stop, you have to decide how Getleft will stop, either inmediately, after the current file is downloaded or after all the files in the current page are downloaded. <li>Days section: You can choose whether you want the download to happen only today or on the days of the week you choose. </ul> Notes: <ul> <li><img src=warning>Getleft won't connect the computer to the Internet or disconnect when the downloading is done. <li>Getleft will always start with the first url in the queue and go on until the last one is done. <li>If you choose a time to start earlier than the current one, Getleft will guess you mean the following day. <li>If you close Getleft and run it again, Getleft will recalculate the downloading times. <li>Q: I have already started downloading a site, can I tell Getleft to stop at a given time? A: I am afraid not, you will have to stop it, and then program Getleft to restart, for example, the following minute and stop whenever you want. (Okay, maybe you do need more options) </ul> .topic howtoProxy .title "How to configure a proxy" Look in the 'Tools' menu and click on the 'Configure proxy' entry, a dialog box appears in which you can enter the address of your proxy. You can check the address in the configuration of your browser, failing that, you can ask your network administrator. If your proxy requires authentification you can enter your username and password, if you choose not to save the password you will be queried for it when Getleft tries to download a file for the first time. <img src=warning>Getleft doesn't support authentification through Microsoft's NTLM protocol. .topic howtoOther .title "How to save space" <h3>Purging files</h3> This option allows to recursively scan through a directory tree, deleting files that match a certain pattern and substituting them with empty files with the same name. This is useful is a site takes more than a session to download. For example, imagine you use two computers, one with a fast, reliable or, at least, cheap Internet connection, like the computer at work or at college, and another one, your very own, without it. You can download the sites in the first one and take them to the second, in floppies, Zips,... With this option you can free space in the first computer and Getleft, seeing that the file already exists, won't try to download it again. <h3>Restoring original files</h3> As the files get changed to keep only relative paths, the original ones are kept with an '.orig' extension. This command deletes the new files and renames the original ones to their real name. This is useful, is you actually want to mirror a site. This program, though, is not a good tool for mirroring sites. .topic howtoUpdate .title "How to update a former download" After finising a download, Getleft saves the url and the directory where you saved it, you can access this log by clicking in the button with the book icon. If you double-click on one the urls, a popup dialog will appear giving you the choice between updating the site or simply downloading it again, which makes sense if you first change the downloading options or if you the stopped the download before it was completed. If you right click on the url, a more complete menu will appear, to update, download, change options, change the local directory,... <img src=warning>This log only has space for 100 entries, after that the first one gets overwritten. If you don't want one url to be deleted, you can right-click on it and check the 'Do not erase' entry. .topic howtoSingle .title "How to download a single file" If you just want to download a single file, like for example: http://www.somedomain.com/somedomain.tar.gz You only have to enter that url, Getleft will then save it into the directory you tell it, without the directory structure of the original site. .topic howtoPage .title "How to download a single page with images" You only have to enter the URL of the page in the usual way, when the dialog to choose files appears, you use the buttons at the bottom to disable all files and then enable all image files. Or if you want to do it in automatic mode, you set the 'Levels' option to '1', this will download the page and all the links in it, including images. .topic howtoHelp .title "How to get help" Since you are already reading the manual, I am not going to tell you to do so, you can: <ul> <li>E-mail me: fandom@retemail.es, or better (like a lot better): <li>Check the mailing list, you can subscribe and look up the archives <a href="tcl:Ayuda::InvokeBrowser http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/getleftdown-user>here</a>. <li>Use the <a href="tcl:Ayuda::InvokeBrowser http://sourceforge.net/projects/getleftdown/">support page</a>, there you will find out how to report a bug, ask for support, ... </ul>