Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Steve D1 on Feb. 4, 2009 · permalink

The reason I downloaded this software was to mass download files from a Government (USGS) site where the files are in many small subdirectories. So there's my first complaint. I realize it could open a can of worms (and a lot of infinite loops)to download every link to infinity, but it ought to be able to go a couple of levels deep. By the time I navigate to the right subdirectory, I may as well just manually download the files. Also, there doesn't seem to be any easy way to abort downloads, and why on earth does it keep a tally of previous downloads that are irrelevant to the current job?

On the plus side, I was able to create a list of target files, put it on a Web page, and once I had that, the downloads are fast and smooth. So it's a keeper. For straight linked files it should work fine. The Help pages need to be a lot more detailed, however. But I had to jump through a lot of very complex hoops a casual user would not be able to do in order to do what I wanted. Being able to access subdirectories to a few levels deep would have made things a lot simpler.