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ok, thanks everyone. I think I'm in over my head here (not being a developer)!

I'll just stick to flashgot, I think. It seems to work (kind of)

Ordinarily, building a gallery is for when you know that the images exist, but you don't have access to a page that contains all the links - so Build Gallery creates such a page on the fly. For myself, I'd use curl with a simple shell script, but it looks like you're on Windows...I'm not as familia...

If you don't actually know which images exist and which don't, then you're going to have to test a lot of nonexistent URLs, and a FlashGot gallery is probably not the ideal tool for the job. You get points for using it creatively, though. I wasn't aware I was using it creatively! I thought that's w...

is it possible Not as far as I know. Are there a lot of gaps? Perhaps you could simply specify multiple gallery ranges. ok, thanks. yes. quite a lot of gaps. Far more gaps than images. At the Flash Got All stage it is taking a very long time (presumably because it is trying to get all the non image...

barbaz wrote:@Mainman we're all unpaid volunteers doing support here in our spare time, please be patient someone will get to this!

sorry. agreed.

anyone?

Sometimes, if I build a gallery only some of the filenames in the specified range have images in them. The others appear in the gallery page as ????? When I then apply Flashgot All, is it possible to have it only try to download the actual images, rather than try to download everything (so I don't g...

But could you please answer the second part of my question? How can I just get the URL range to download all the images straight to a chosen folder in one step? The problem with having them all load to a big web page is that my computer soon runs out of memory and crashes, so you have to do it a fe...

the Guest post was from me, by the way - I forgot to log in) Ok, I think I have this figured out. You have to enter the URL range parameter in the "content" box for FlashGot All to work (rather than in the Preview box). But could you please answer the second part of my question? How can I ...

therube wrote:If you didn't need the padding with 0's, then just set the range in Build Gallery:

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http://www.xyz.com/img[1-999].jpg

Ah.. didn't think it would be that easy!

Thanks

(I'm pretty sure I've seen docs somewhere about how to download sequential files like you're wanting to do. Give me a moment to dig that up. EDIT https://flashgot.net/features#build_gallery ?) Thanks, yes, I read that (though it's not very helpfully written) I am making progress now. But what I'd r...

I have a series of images like this www.website.com/images/xxxx.jpg I know how to set the limits to search for all images with four digits and cover the space from 0000 to 9999 But how do I set it up to see if there are also images like 1, 3, 67 etc? i.e. numbers less than 1000 without leading zeros...

@Mainman: is that a related enough issue that you have no objection to me merging the two topics? Sure. more than happy to merge the two topics. But you'll need to be a mod to do that, I imagine. What I don't really get is that they say FlashGot is intended to make download managers (whatever they ...

Can anyone point me to a manual or a user guide for FlashGot? It's far from obvious how it works, or what all the commands mean. I find I am scrabbling around in the dark just randomly trying combinations of commands to see what happens. But I would much rather read and understand. There must be a m...

I have figured out that the Build Gallery option allows me to bring all these images into a single webpage (using the syntax http://www.website,com/images/[10665-11000;1].jpg or somsuch) But what I want to be able to do is have all those images download to a selected folder on my hard drive, not lo...