Advanced

Some other fancy options for the serious downloader.

• Expert mode; no delete or cancel confirmation prompts: Avoid a few of the "Are You Sure?" type prompts. For the individual download windows, this causes clicking "Cancel" or closing the window to assumes you do want to finish the download later.
• Include GetRight items in Internet Explorer right-click context menus: GetRight can add some items into Internet Explorer's context menus. For example, when you right click a link, it will have a menu item for "Download with GetRight". If you do not want these menu items, uncheck this box. (You may have to restart your browser if you make changes to this one.) This requires that the Internet Explorer click monitoring is turned on. If Internet Explorer click monitoring is turned off on the Monitor configuration page, this will be turned off as well.
• Automatically check for new versions of GetRight every X: GetRight can check to see if a newer version of GetRight is available. Uncheck this if you do not want GetRight to do this check automatically. You can set the time interval to control how often GetRight will check. You may also check by hand, using the menu item under the Tools menu on either the GetRight Tray Icon, Download Status or GetRight Browser windows.
• "Turn Off Computer When Done" really does X: You can control what GetRight really does when it does when the "Turn Off When Done" option is on. The default is to really shut down the computer, but you may change to do any of the listed choices to make it Hibernate, Log Off, etc. Note that not all computers may support Stand By or Hibernate or other modes. For now, GetRight's windows and prompts will still say "Turn Off" even if it will do something different when it actually goes to perform its "turn off" function.
• Most of the items are obvious. The Shut Down (Hard) one will have Windows kill all programs--without even giving them time to cleanup. If your computer seems to often get "stuck" waiting for someone to respond to "End Task" messages, it might be worth trying this. Otherwise, this one is not recommended. And be surArial;e to save all your work and close all programs you can when using this option!
• Try to prevent computer entering Stand By mode when downloading: You can set your computer to enter "Stand By" mode after a time of inactivity--no user input. If GetRight is downloading at the time the computer tries to enter Stand By mode, you may wish to have it wait until after GetRight has finished so that the download completes.

Log Files

Log files can help you keep a record of what you have downloaded and where files came from.

• Write *.txt file with any comments you enter for a file: If you enter a comment for a file (either on the "Save As" window, or using the Download Status, Downloads->File Comment menu), GetRight can save that comment into a .TXT file with the file on your hard drive. This can be very useful to figure out what the file is at a later time. (For example, if you saved the file "getrt400.exe" with the comment "GetRight 4.0 Installer", GetRight would write that comment into a file named "getrt400.exe.txt"
• GetRight also includes some other useful information about the file (such as the URL, source page, and date you added the file).
• Write *.log file for each downloaded file: This option has GetRight write a separate log file for each file it downloads. This file is the same name as the file downloaded, with .log added. This file contains information about when it was downloaded, and from where it was downloaded, etc.
• Write "Downloads.txt" file with file names and comments (or names and URL if no comment) in each folder where you download files: Pretty obvious, it's an index type file for every folder where you save downloads.
• Write "Descrip.ion" file with file names and comments (or names and URL if no comment) in each folder where you download files: Pretty obvious, it's an more specialized index type file for every folder where you save downloads. Some other programs will use this to show extra information about the files.
• Keep a single log of all downloads: You may enter a path and filename to have GetRight store some information as it starts and stops downloading files. This log file will contain information about every file that is downloaded by GetRight. Click the Browse button to select the path and filename using the standard "Save As..." window.
• Maximum log file size XX KB: This allows you to limit the size to which the log file will grow. Whenever GetRight is started up, it will trim the log file so that it is this size. A value of 0 means GetRight will not limit the file size.
• You may also pick what information to include in the combined log. The "download start, stop, and resume" item will make the log bigger and harder to find items.

Saving

• Add .GetRight to filenames until done downloading: By default, GetRight will add .GetRight to each filename that it is in progress downloading. This allows you to easily see that a download has not yet completed downloading. If you do not want this to happen, you may turn it off with this option.
• Set file dates to match the date of the file on the server: Pretty obvious, if the file date on the server is June 9, 2002, GetRight will set the file date/time to be the same when the file has finished downloading. Note that not all files will GetRight be able to get the date from the server.
• Create (empty) files on the hard drive as soon as downloads are added: By default, GetRight will create empty files on your computer for files it will be downloading. If you don't want it to create the files until the download is actually started, use this item.
• Don't add .GetRight to file names for music and video file types: Some music (.MP3 .WAV) and video (.MPEG .MOV .AVI) types may be viewed when the file hasn't completed downloading--you can hear or see the portion that has been downloaded. To make it easier to preview these types, GetRight can be set to not add the extra .GetRight to the file names for those types.
• Add any comments entered on the Save As window to the file name: This has GetRight append any comments for a file that you type in on the Save As window to the name of the file you select. This helps you identify some cryptic names with a better description, but saves the more cryptic name too. For example, if you pick to save C:\Downloads\g60.exe and give it the comment GetRight 6.0 installer, the actual name of the file GetRight will save on your computer is C:\Downloads\g60 - GetRight 6.0 installer.exe
• Do extra write caching to reduce disk activity. GetRight can save the data it downloads in memory, then write in much larger batches. This is in addition to the normal disk caching that Windows itself will do. This can really reduce the amount of disk activity if you wish. But because data is not written quickly, if GetRight or Windows crashes you can lose all the data that is in memory and not yet written. But of course GetRight will just resume from the last point where it did save the data to the disk.