Preferences

The window is divided in panels. Options are pretty self-explanatory. They will let you shape dTa! as you like the most. You'll find extremely useful the filters' panel. Here you can add or delete your own inclusive filters, also using regular expressions.

Main panel

If a file aready exists

Option Result
Rename The will will be renamed. dTa! will append a unique number to the name, which is computed in order.
First would be somefile_001.ext.
Overwrite The existing file will be overwritten if possible.
Please be aware that there will be no confirmation done prior to overwriting.
Skip Will will not be downloaded. Or if it was downloaded and another file with the same name was created in between the download will be deleted.
Ask dTa! will be asking you on how to proceed. (default)

Downloads

Max. concurrent downloads determines who many files to download at the same time.
It is not the same as connections, as there might be multiple connections per download.

Playing a sound whenever a download error occures brings that error to your attention, so that you may fix your download/settings as soon as possible.

DownThemAll! also offers to close the tabs where the download came from once it is started.
This option allows to download lots of links from different tabs more efficiently.

When downloads are completed

You may want to receive an notification once all downloads are completed.

Furthermore you may play a sound and/or close the Manager window once all downloads are finished.

Filters panel

To be written...

Privacy panel

We DownThemAll! authors are concerned on privacy.

See also: Privacy Notice

When manager is closed

Automatically clean the download queue once the Manager window is closed.

Dropdown menus

DownThemAll! keeps track of some user-specified values: the target directory, the renaming mask and furthermore additional filters.

Specify the number of entries dTa should remember.

Please note: the "Clear Private Data" feature might be configured to delete these history values.

Diagnostic log

A dialognistc log is a file containing a lot of information helping to diagnose problems and bugs.

The DownThemAll! authors will be happy about every such log they receive as part of a bug report.

The diagnostic log might contain sensitive information (like URLs, cookies and similar) and logging has a negative impact on performance, hence you should only activate this feature if you are planning to submit a bug report.

Updates/Internet

You might let dTa check for updates.
This might be very useful to get new versions faster or get important news.
dTa will transfer no personal information except the version of DownThemAll!.
Other transmitted information is the same as with every other HTTP request: Browser identification, Accepted languages and such (actual information depends on the browser and is likely not used by DownThemAll!).

Anonymous usage statistics may contain e.g. the number of downloads, the total and average sizes of downloads, file types and similar.
But there won't be any personal identifyable data transmitted, ever.

User Interface panel

Appearance

When downloading you may either display the full URL or just the filename.

Integration

When you turn on integration with Firefox' "Save File" window there will be two new options displayed:

Menus

Click the menu items you would like to see.

Compact menu will create just one menu entry for DownThemAll! which then opens a sub-menu which contains the usual options.

Advanced panel

Note of caution: Preferences on this panel might render DownThemAll! useless or cause other damage. Use with caution

Multipart download

DownThemAll! may try to download a file in several chunks at once. This may accelerate the overall download.

On the other hand some servers may be erronous when it comes to such procedure, so that downloads might fail.

Specify the maximum number of concurrent connections per download using the dropdown.

Keep in mind: the more the better does not count here. Usually you'll get best performance with with a value of 2 - 5.

Download timeout

A server might not send any new data for some time. If this time exceeds this configured timeout the download will be canceled so that DownThemAll! may continue with the next download in queue.

If you have to deal with "laggy" servers you may want to raise the timeout.

Temporary Files

The unfinished downloads need to get stored somewhere. Per default the dedicated directory of your system will be used:

You may select not to save the files in a temp folder. Partial downloads will then be saved in the download directory

If you have a dedicated place to store downloads/big temporary files then you may also select a different directory here.