Stop caching all previous downloads and then redownloading

[CopsAreSociopaths@yahoo.com]

AAAAAAGGGHHHHHH.... this is driving me NUTS
I absolutely HATE this feature of flashNot...

When you download a SWF file, which often has a file name like 651654651asefasef6a8esfasef1668se8t4rg565etr1drg15drg, well this program does the most infuriating thing and REMEMBERS that it downloaded that file. Well obviously when I've downloaded a file with a b.s. name, I naturally want to immediately rename it so I know what it is. Now, I go back to the website which has a lot of other swf links and I'd like to download another one, and whadda ya know... this flashNot program thinks I've never downloaded the file I just renamed, so it downloads it AGAIN.

Look, all I want IS THE FILE I ASK FOR. Quit trying to redownload everything I've ever visited that has a SWF extension.

Does anyone test their software anymore? This should be common sense. If anyone can find a way around this behavior, please, let me know... I'd pay billions for it.

Thanks
A hugely disappointed user.

[Giorgio Maone]

I'm not sure I fully understand this issue, but what's remembered of your past downloads really doesn't belong in FlashGot: it's rather a task for the final download manager.
What download manager are you using? Orbit Downloader, for instance "remembers" the original URL and prevents you from redownloading the same file only because you renamed or moved it.

[therube]

What download manager are you using, built-in?
Some download managers may alert you if you attempted to download the same file again.

FlashGot is not a download manager. All it does is to let you know that it found something. If you have downloaded it or not, it knows not.

If it finds something for you & you download it, then later revisit the same site, & if the media is still there, it will find it again - as it should.

Now if you decide to download it again, then maybe you should be aware that you already have done so.


If there are multiple streams on a page & if they play simultaneously, or if you start them in sequence, FlashGot will log (find) each stream as it starts. You can selectively pick which stream you want by right-clicking the icon. (You would have to know which link correlates to which file on the page.) If there is only one file on a page, it should be less of a concern.

Further, if you jump through a video stream, FlashGot will also see each jump (assuming that the player allows you to do so, & assuming the part you have jumped to has not already been cached). So in that case, you may pick a part of the file to download, which would be less then the file in its entirety.


Again some download managers may alert you.
Some utilities, like Everything make it incredibly efficient to look for file (names) on your HDD.
And once you accumulate too many of the same file - regardless of its name, then other utilities can help with that, Easy Duplicate File Finder. (If used improperly, can be dangerous.)

[Guest]

I'm not using any download manager... just FireFox 3.5

It seems really really odd how flashNot works and why the designers that it was at all intuitive or sensical.

When I am at a site that has some audio (or video) I want to download (say a podcast page that has a bunch of audio files of past shows, like KFI 640 am in Los Angeles.)
Well clearly, Internet Explorer doesn't EVER attempt to download files I didn't specifically ask for.

The audio/video file(s) I want, I will right click on and do a "SAVE AS"

That's it... it's that simple.

Why on earth did the designers of FlashNot think it was a wise idea to download crap I didn't specifically ask for.

When I right click on a playing SWF, and I attempt to save it, don't give me 10 other files you found in the g.d. cache... just give me what I asked for and ONLY what I asked for. Is that too difficult?

[Giorgio Maone]

When I right click on a playing SWF, and I attempt to save it, don't give me 10 other files you found in the g.d. cache... just give me what I asked for and ONLY what I asked for. Is that too difficult?

Yes, it's too difficult because you don't want to download the SWF (it would be easy), you want to download one of the "seemingly media" files that the SWF loads after it starts.
If more than one player is on the page, the browser has no way even to know which SWF exactly requested the file, and anyway each SWF can request more than one clip (e.g. ads + content).
Therefore the best FlashGot (or any similar tool) can do is proposing all the files captured and let you choose which you want.
Sadly, as long as you keep using the very limited Firefox's built-in download manager you'll have an hard time at choosing (you can right click on the FlashGot Media icon and have a menu of the captured files, but that's all).
You'd be in a better position if you used an external download manager, whose integration is the primary aim of FlashGot.

[GµårÐïåñ]

Please stop wrongly referring to the software by a different name. FlashGot _NOT_ FlashNot. Everyone here is trying to help you and yet you continue to maintain a hostile and less than cooperative tone. It would help the debugging considerably and ability to help you if you actually took some time to be clear, concise, with less sarcasm and harshness. Just saying.