[bookport] Book Port Spyder - generic names for pending files
- From: Peter Rand <peter.rand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:15:21 +0200
LARRY SKUTCHAN wrote:
>Yes, we can take a look at doing something here.
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Thanks Larry, for taking a look into Spyder's overwrite problem.
The next improvement to Spyder would be the ability to access
subscription (password-protected)sites like the New York Times
and the Washington Post, which currently block attempted Spyder
downloads.
Peter
>>>>peter.rand@xxxxxxxxxxxx Saturday, October 23, 2004 2:24:32 AM >>>
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>Hi Larry/Rob,
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>I really like the Spyder and am doing more and more of my web-browsing=20
>with the Spyder.
>One problem I've noticed is the automatic naming of text files stored=20
>in the "Transfer/Pending"
>directory.
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>Many web-sites have different sections with names like "Top news",=20
>"Health", "Science" etc. For
>such websites, I create three separate Spyder shortcuts. But when =
>Spyder=20
>downloads the information
>in my "Top news" shortcut, it saves the info to the pending folder with=20
>the generic name, e.g., of "news.txt".
>When I then download the data in my "Health" shortcut, it also saves =
>the=20
>info to the pending folder as "news.txt",
>thereby overwriting the first file I downloaded.
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>Can the user have some more input over the naming of files which are=20
>downloaded, or could Spyder at least
>prevent files from being overwritten by giving subsequent files names=20
>like "news1.txt", "news2.txt", "news3.txt"?
>At present, I have to wait until the Spyder is finished with a download,=20=
>
>then manually re-name the file, and only then
>continue with the next Spyder download.
>
>Regards,
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>Peter
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