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Any real IDM alternative in 2022?
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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1098493" data-attributes="member: 78686"><p>Torrents and regular downloads are different.</p><p></p><p>This one is really a brilliant little program. I'm very surprised how tiny and effective this is. I needed to change a couple of things in settings to make it almost perfect. I enabled "Enable sparse file allocation" and disabled "Set date and time of file from server response". This is more than enough for any regular downloads except direct downloading of videos from websites. Thanks for this <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p><p></p><p>JDownloader2 is the best IMO for YouTube downloads. They release updates multiple times every single day. Usually, any changes made by YouTube is fixed by the JDownloader2 team within a few hours. Never seen a program that updates this often.</p><p></p><p>I download everything on my HDD to not waste SSDs write cycles <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😄" title="Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f604.png" data-shortname=":smile:" /> But even then, writing the double the amount is a waste in my opinion, so I avoid such things. I opened an issue on its GitHub asking if he can do something about it. There's a thing called "sparse file allocation" which I learned yesterday from HTTP Downloader that [USER=60675]@Sunshine-boy[/USER] linked above. It's not enabled by default on that download manager, but I prefer this method since if you download a 500 MB file and stop it at 50% then only 250 MB is written on the disk while on the other hand by default on that download manager as well as Ant Download Manager, full size of the file is written on the disk at the start and then download is started. So even if you stop let's say at 10%, full 500 MB is written on the disk. This is for Ant Download Manager and HTTP Downloader by default.</p><p>AB Download manager is weird because it writes the full size at get go and then start writing again over it which is super strange.</p><p>Sparse file allocation is used by Free Download Manager. So only the amount you download is written. That's my understanding at this point from testing. Probably I'm not wrong.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, Ant is fine. Disk write bytes is the same as the file size. Nothing extra <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /> But full file size is written even if you don't finish the download (not a big deal I think). The UI isn't very pretty but looking at settings it seems like a decent IDM alternative with torrent support.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1098493, member: 78686"] Torrents and regular downloads are different. This one is really a brilliant little program. I'm very surprised how tiny and effective this is. I needed to change a couple of things in settings to make it almost perfect. I enabled "Enable sparse file allocation" and disabled "Set date and time of file from server response". This is more than enough for any regular downloads except direct downloading of videos from websites. Thanks for this (y) JDownloader2 is the best IMO for YouTube downloads. They release updates multiple times every single day. Usually, any changes made by YouTube is fixed by the JDownloader2 team within a few hours. Never seen a program that updates this often. I download everything on my HDD to not waste SSDs write cycles 😄 But even then, writing the double the amount is a waste in my opinion, so I avoid such things. I opened an issue on its GitHub asking if he can do something about it. There's a thing called "sparse file allocation" which I learned yesterday from HTTP Downloader that [USER=60675]@Sunshine-boy[/USER] linked above. It's not enabled by default on that download manager, but I prefer this method since if you download a 500 MB file and stop it at 50% then only 250 MB is written on the disk while on the other hand by default on that download manager as well as Ant Download Manager, full size of the file is written on the disk at the start and then download is started. So even if you stop let's say at 10%, full 500 MB is written on the disk. This is for Ant Download Manager and HTTP Downloader by default. AB Download manager is weird because it writes the full size at get go and then start writing again over it which is super strange. Sparse file allocation is used by Free Download Manager. So only the amount you download is written. That's my understanding at this point from testing. Probably I'm not wrong. Yeah, Ant is fine. Disk write bytes is the same as the file size. Nothing extra (y) But full file size is written even if you don't finish the download (not a big deal I think). The UI isn't very pretty but looking at settings it seems like a decent IDM alternative with torrent support. [/QUOTE]
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