Downloading Project

Downloading a Project means that Offline Explorer Enterprise starts retrieving files from the Internet according to the Project Properties settings. To download a Project, first select the Project you want to download. Then:

Choose Download | Start from the main menu.

Click the Download Project or Folder in the Toolbar.

Press F5 on the keyboard.

If the Project is created using the Address Bar, the Project begins to download automatically.

Project downloads may be scheduled by selecting the Schedule panel from Project Properties | Advanced | on the main menu. This determines when and how often a Project will be automatically downloaded. See Scheduling for more details.

Command line parameters may be used to download Projects when Offline Explorer Enterprise starts.

Once the download has been started, Offline Explorer Enterprise begins loading files located under the Project URL. Every link in the file is checked against the limits set in the Project Properties: Limit number, File Types, File Sizes, URL Filters, etc. Since Offline Explorer Enterprise downloads a limited number of files at one time, other files are placed in the Queue to wait for the download. The Status bar displays the number of processed (downloaded) files and the number of files waiting in the Queue. When all files are downloaded and no files are left in Project Queue, the Project download is complete.

While a Project is downloading, a small green forward-arrow will be added to the Project icon. When the download is complete, the Project icon is returned to its normal state. Downloaded files are available offline at this time.

Offline Explorer Enterprise can download many Projects simultaneously. Files queued for download by all Projects share the same downloading channels.

Each Project has its own downloading queue, so files from different Projects will be downloaded in parallel. Offline Explorer Pro and Enterprise editions allow you to limit the maximum number of connections that will be used by the Project. You can do it with the help of the context menu in the Queue tab or by adding the following line to the Project's URLs field:

Channels=3

You can also limit the number of simultaneous connections to each of the servers to prevent it from overloading:

ChannelsPerServer=2

To stop downloading a Project, select the Project and then click the Stop downloading button on Toolbar or select Download | Stop in the main menu. To stop loading all Projects at once, select Download | Stop All from the main menu.

Downloading may be temporarily suspended to free the Internet access channel by selecting Download | Suspend. All downloading Projects icons will change to the yellow VCR pause sign. To resume downloading, select Download | Resume. When suspending, Offline Explorer Enterprise will not break the connections immediately. Instead, it will wait until every currently downloading file is complete, so there may be a pause before the Project is suspended.

Downloads in Offline Explorer Enterprise may also be delayed. During the delay, other downloading activity will be available in Offline Explorer Enterprise and the computer may be restarted. See Suspending to a file for details.

You can control the download process even more precisely in Offline Explorer Pro and Enterprise editions. There is a Queue tab that shows all URLs that Offline Explorer Enterprise downloads for the selected Project. Right-click a URL in the list to abort it, copy the URL or Referer, perform other actions.

The Queue manager also allows you to limit the number of connections for the selected Project and pause individual Projects.

When you download streaming files (MMS, PNM and RTSP protocols) you may save a partially downloaded stream. Right-click the desired file in the Connections panel and choose Finalize from the popup menu.