Trouble with downloading automatically especially entire threads is hosts thesedays are
becoming more and more unreliable
If any server is too stressed the content on it wont download and you'll be none the wiser
I've checked content that was deemed dead by the automatic downloader many times
manually and found it to be alive
Checking to see what hosts are in a thread and sampling them if your going for the entire thread is just smart
Smarter is downloading in smaller batches of posts
- 5 posts per page (maximum of 150 images in a post on VEF)
The reason I say stay small is large all in one sessions - 40 posts per page
can go very wrong if a hosts server goes offline - its like watching grass grow
- as it checks each image and returns it unavailable
- if you have image grabber set to check them multiple times even slower.
- 5 posts - maximum 750 images versus 40 posts - up to 6000 images
You can reduce or increase posts per page from the default 10
via your User cp - see directions below
Before you use the automatic downloader
TURN OFF SIGNATURES
unless you want to end up with images in them
Found user cp / setting & options / options / thread display options (half way down)
- visible post elements - show signatures - untick
Under that is - Number of Posts to Show Per Page
Change to what you want and save at the bottom
I used image grabber 1.6.5.5 for eons until imagehosts started to become unreliable
With add-ons it always pays to check the authors homepage if the program starts acting up...several times there have been newer versions on it compared to the firefox page
Now its 1 post at a time for me - less stress on their servers plus it gives more chance of getting
ALL the content thats alive
others swear by managers like
Down Them All
Complete rewrite as a webextension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...n/downthemall/