Download Manager

Panel elements

Opened via Window > Download Manager opens, the Download Manager panel consists of:

• A list of a items to be downloaded
• A status bar at the bottom
• A button for adding items to and a button for deleting selected items from the list
• A reload button
• A Start/Stop button to enable or disable downloads.
• An Action menu where you can set the download location and access options.

Adding Files

There are a few different methods for adding files to the Download Manager, one of which likely fits your use case:

• Drag and drop a URL from anywhere, e.g., from Safari's address bar.
• If you have copied URLs, from bookmarks, links in DEVONagent Pro, etc., you can paste them into the panel.
• Click the in the panel and add the URL manually. Optionally, You can enter the Referrer, Username, and Password, if known and required. And if the Automatic option is enabled, DEVONthink automatically creates a referrer when downloading whole web sites.
• When browsing web content or viewing files with web links in DEVONthink, you can add URLs via the context menu.

Action Menu

Most actions are available through the Action menu or the context menu. Click the gear button or Control-click an item in the Download Manager panel to display more commands:

• Add: Manually add a URL to the list.
• Edit: Edit the parameters of a selected URL in the list.
• Retry: Attempts to reload an item that failed to download.
• Remove: Removes the selected items from the list. Alternatively, you can press the ⌫︎ Backspace or ⌦︎ Delete key.
• Enable/Disable: Checks or unchecks the selected items. Only checked items will be downloaded.
• Start/Stop Queue: Starts or stops the download queue. Same as the play/pause buttons at the bottom of the panel. Note this will only pause queued items. Any in progress downloads will continue.
• Purge Queue: Manually removes all downloaded items from the list.
• Only Added Files to Thumbnail Gallery: Offers various predefined option sets (see below).
• Download to: Choose where the downloaded files are stored, either in a Downloads group in a chosen database or a Finder folder set in the panel's Options.
• Options: Opens the options dialog sheet, which allows you to specify in detail what to download, which links to follow, and where to store the downloaded files (see below).

Pre-defined Settings: For your convenience, DEVONthink comes with predefined option sets that you can directly select from the action menu.

• Only Added Files: Downloads only the files you have manually added to the Download Manager.
• Offline Archive: Downloads the files you have added to the Download Manager including embedded images, style sheets, and scripts. Use this option set to archive/download web pages with everything necessary to display them properly. Alternative: Create a web archive.
• Subdirectory (Complete): Downloads the files you have added to the Download Manager including all embedded or linked files. This option set follows all links leading to (items in) sub-directories. For example, use this option set to download a complete web site for offline archiving.
• Subdirectory (Images & Multimedia): Same as above, but downloads only linked images, linked multimedia files including Flash and QuickTime movies, and embedded images in the item's directory and all sub-directories. Use this set to download a complete web site for offline archiving (without all linked Office documents, PDFs, etc.)
• Thumbnail Gallery: Downloads the files you have added to the Download Manager including linked images, embedded images, style sheets, and scripts. Use this option set to download a thumbnail gallery including all full-size images linked to each thumbnail for offline archiving.

Options

The options dialog defines which file types are downloaded, which links it follows, where it stores the files, etc.

• Files: Check all file types you want the Download Manager to download (plain texts, rich texts, Office documents and PDF files, style sheets and scripts, images, embedded images, multimedia files, mark-up language files, etc.) Use the Follow Links pop-up menu to define how far DEVONthink should follow links on the downloaded HTML pages (see below). Check Overwrite existing to update an existing archive.
• Overwrite existing files: Use this to update an already downloaded page.
• Folder: When you choose Download to > Folder, DEVONthink stores all downloaded items in the Finder folder you choose here. Click Set then browse to and choose your preferred location in the Finder. Double-click any part of the location to reveal it in the Finder.
• Download: Define how many connections the Download Manager opens at the same time. We recommend leaving this at 4 unless you have a specific need to change it.
• Automatically purge queue: Removes successfully downloaded items during the process.

Follow Links: These options define how deeply DEVONthink follows links on the downloaded HTML pages. This feature allows you to control what gets downloaded--only the actual pages or a complete web site. DEVONthink supports the following options:

• Off: Does not follow any links.
• On Same Host: Follows links, but only as long as they refer to the same web server/web site. Files on other web servers will not be downloaded.
• In Same Directory: Follows links, but only as long as they refer to items in the same directory as the downloaded HTML page.
• In Subdirectories: Follows links, but only as long as they refer to items in the same directory as the downloaded HTML page or its sub-directories.
• One Level: Follows all links regardless of where they point, but only one level deep. Links on pages linked to from the original page are not downloaded.
• Two Levels: Follows all links regardless of where they point to, but only two levels deep.