Welcome all to the testing of the new version of Free Download Manager.

Changes in this version:

[+] Portable mode
[+] Bittorrent protocol support
[+] Metalink support
[+] Macroses for specifying the output folder for downloads
[+] Site Explorer: Progress of building of the list of files
[+] Option to disable notifications for batch downloads
[+] Ability to specify the list of sites that should not be monitored
[+] Automatic integrity check of downloaded file
[+] Take proxy settings from Firefox browser
[+] Sub groups
[+] "Grant all bandwidth for this download" feature
[+] Ability to change the folder for storing FDM's data files.
[+] Some small improvements and changes
[*] Speedup of work with the large lists of downloads
[*] Interface improvements
[-] Site Explorer: crash if some network error occurs while building the list of files
[-] Senseless loop, if zip preview failed
[-] Zip preview did not work for sites that allow 1 connection per ip only
[-] Downloaded file was launched before performing the virus check
[-] Work with FTP ASCII mode bug fixed
[-] Scheduler: when scheduling a download to start "Every ..." it will show "0 days" instead of hours or minutes.
[-] Failed to download if there was '%' symbol in the FTP url.
[-] General bug fixes

Update of 2.3 BETA is available: build 610.

Changes:
[*] Improved rapidshare server support.
[-] Bug in Site Manager fixed.

Download 2.3 BETA

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Alex,
FDM development team

Users who uses AOL ISP please tell us if FDM works without problems with AOL.

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Alex,
FDM development team

At last... I see some updates on FDM!! I really like it when I used it.. I thought the project was dead but I'm happy to see this beta version. Keep it up!!

Should users of previous versions uninstall them first, or is upgrading fine?

Uninstallation of previous version is not required.

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Alex,
FDM development team

Update of 2.3 BETA is available: build 605.

Changes:
[*] Improved rapidshare server support.

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Alex,
FDM development team

yippi

fmd now works with my rs.com accnt..direct dls possible

thanks alex and all the developers of fdm

I am curious of the changes, I mean did FDM not support RS login method (some claimed it worked) or some other communication problem?

Also, can install both versions so I can compair them? I can tweak registry or rename exe if necessary.

How to work as portable mode?

That is also stumping me. Is there a command line switch to turn on portable mode? I've looked through every possible option in the 2.3 beta and I can't seem to find anything.

The only option refering to portable mode in a way is the option to choose an alternative Data path.
Unfortunately the files stored in the data path do not include the configuration of FDM itself.

I guess there's still some .ini file usage neccessary to have a real portable FDM.
Maybe that's not implemented yet in this beta version.

This ini should contain the values usually stored in the registry. If this ini exists in the FDM folder, portable mode should be used as default, if not, use the registry values.

Another thing neccessary for portable mode, which seems not to be implemented yet:
The Base path for downloaded files needs to be a relative (not absolute path). Usage of environment variables in the base path would also be quite comfortable (like %TEMP% or %APPDATA%)

Just copy all files from FDM's installation folder to your flash disk (or portable hdd) and it will be ready to use on another computer.
All data will be saved in the Data subfolder.

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Alex,
FDM development team

@alex
I tried as you said.

It's a bit tricky.

The settings i've changed on my normal PC where FDM is installed didn't make it to the settings.dat file in the FDM\Data folder. So copying my FDM folder to a virgin PC didn't restore my settings there after starting FDM.

So I've completely set up FDM there again which finally resulted in the settings.dat file created in the FDM\Data folder. This seems ready to be portable now.

Minor issue: The group's root folder is still an absolute path, not a relative one. So when using Portable FDM on another FDM-less PC, the root folder needs to be set again.

Excellent changes!

I would like to exclude NZB files, and just let IE download them. How is that done? I've checked every option 2-3 times, and can't find it.

Thanks,,,