I'm looking for some sort of download manager-esque program that has a specific feature. Now, this program may not exist, because I've looked all over Hell's half-acre and have come away with nothing.
There's a site I visit that uses the imageboard engine LynxChan with a custom frontend. In each thread, there are images and other file attachments, just as you'd expect. Let's say that, on Monday, a thread has 15 attachments. I can use, for instance, DownThemAll to snag those without issue. On Tuesday, there are 25 more attachments. If I use DTA (or any other download manager, it would seem), it will download ALL of the files, not just the new ones, and will simply rename those with filename collisions. This is obviously not optimal for a multitude of reasons.
Are there any download managers that will grab only the new files on subsequent runs, like some sort of update? Or, if nothing else, not download files with the same name as one already in the download folder?
Thanks for any assistance, and my apologies if this is in the wrong forum or isn't clear enough.
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I'm looking for some sort of download manager-esque program that has a specific feature. Now, this program may not exist, because I've looked all over Hell's half-acre and have come away with nothing.
There's a site I visit that uses the imageboard engine LynxChan with a custom frontend. In each thread, there are images and other file attachments, just as you'd expect. Let's say that, on Monday, a thread has 15 attachments. I can use, for instance, DownThemAll to snag those without issue. On Tuesday, there are 25 more attachments. If I use DTA (or any other download manager, it would seem), it will download ALL of the files, not just the new ones, and will simply rename those with filename collisions. This is obviously not optimal for a multitude of reasons.
Are there any download managers that will grab only the new files on subsequent runs, like some sort of update? Or, if nothing else, not download files with the same name as one already in the download folder?
Thanks for any assistance, and my apologies if this is in the wrong forum or isn't clear enough.
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