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Application Icon   Downloads

Window > Downloads opens the Downloads window. Use it to download files from the Internet to your computer. The download URL is automatically placed into the Finder comment of the downloaded file, as well as in the 'kMDItemWhereFroms' extended file system attribute.

The Downloads panel

For URLs that require authentication, DEVONagent Pro asks for a username and password. It also uses the systemwide cookies, and can start and stop downloads at any time.

Adding, resuming, retrying

To add files to the Download Manager, drag a link to the item from any DEVONagent Pro web browser window or any other application to the Download Manager window, paste a copied URL or ⌃-click a link in a DEVONagent Pro web browser window and choose "Add to Download Manager". ⌥-clicking links in the web browser or the objects drawer adds items to the Download Manager, too. Also, DEVONagent Pro automatically puts files it cannot display into the Download Manager, if you double-click them, e.g., .zip archive files.

DEVONagent Pro downloads files added to the Download Manager immediately. To remove a file, select it and click the - button at the bottom of the window. To temporarily prevent an item from being downloaded, uncheck the checkbox in front of it. Check the checkbox to download the item. Use this to add items to the download queue, but download them later.

To resume or retry a failed download, select the file and click the back arrow button. Use the start/stop button (resembles the start/pause button of a VCR or tape player), to start or stop the entire queue.

You can also drag items from the Download Manager to other windows or to the Finder, or copy it to the Clipboard. Drag-and-drop will send the URL of the item to the target window or application.

DEVONagent Pro puts the web address where the file was downloaded from into the Spotlight comments of the file (not available if DEVONagent Pro was purchased in the Mac App Store).

Action menu

The action menu provides the same options as the context menu.

Context menu

The context menu, which appears when you click something with the right mouse button or when you click while holding the ⌃ Control key down, offers a range of commands tailored to what you can do with the clicked object.

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    Cut: Copies the selected link to the Clipboard and removes it from the queue.
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    Copy: Copies the selected link to the Clipboard.
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    Paste: Adds a link that is copied to Clipboard to the download manager queue.
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    Retry: Retries a stopped or stalled download.
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    Show In Finder: Opens a Finder window for the enclosing folders of the selected items.
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    Enable/Disable: Enables or disables the selected item(s). Disabled (unchecked) items are not downloaded but kept in the download queue.
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    Reload: Reloads the selected items.
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    Remove: Removes the selected items from the queue.
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    Start/Stop Queue: Starts or stops the download queue.
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    Purge Queue: Purges all completed items from the queue.
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    Automatically Purge Queue: When checked, completed items are automatically purged from the queue.