Download Multiple Dropbox Files
There are a variety of tools for managing downloads within your browser. Some focus on speed, multiple file options, extra organization features and other things that the built-in browser’s download panel doesn’t have.
There are some tools, however, that focus on doing only one or two things at a time. Such is the case with the Chrome extension, uSelect iDownload.
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As the name implies, uSelect lets you select one or more download links and provides you the option to either open the links or download them. There are many extensions similar to this, but it stands out because it lets you select links in a more visual, user-friendly way with just a few mouse clicks.
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After installing the extension, you will notice the uSelect icon on the add-on bar (top-right corner). If you hover over the icon, you will see a label that says “Start link selection”. Click on this first before selecting links.
After clicking the uSelect icon, a set of instructions will appear on the bottom of the browser screen.
As indicated, you can draw a rectangle around the links you want to select. This will highlight the links in yellow. From there you can either hit Enter to open the selected links in the same window, “Shift + Enter” to open in a new window, or “Alt + Enter” to download them.
If you need to scroll down or simply want to get rid of the pop-up box, you can hold down the H key.
In the example below, I’ve chosen to download files from my Dropbox account. Hitting “Alt + Enter” automatically brings me to the Downloads page, where all selected files are downloaded. The downloads also appear on the bottom of the browser window.
The files will be saved in Chrome’s default Downloads folder, or wherever you have configured it within the browser settings. Unfortunately, this cannot be changed when using the extension.
Note that not all links may download files as expected. The link would need to be a direct file source, not a link to another page, otherwise the download might just be the HTML of that page and not the file itself.
You can assign a shortcut key for activating this add-on. To do this, right-click on the uSelect icon again and select Options.
In the page that loads, click on “<Not Set>” beside Keyboard Shortcut. The box should change to say “Please set a shortcut”. Enter the shortcut keys you want to use.
Make sure the shortcut keys you specify is not already being used by Chrome or any other extension.
uSelect is a great way to save time on downloading multiple files, but it’s also made for websites that display links to actual source files. Selecting files is made easy with simply dragging a rectangle around them as opposed to highlighting each and every link.
If you work with downloading multiple files from direct links, then uSelect is a simple tool you can use with ease. It doesn’t take much to learn, and it gets the job done with just a few clicks.
If you can't resume the failed download, that is irritating. Large files like videos, movies, high-resolution images or other files that are big take time to download and may fail at any time before the downloading is completed.The reason for the error in completion of download may be the network error, server timeout or sometimes unknown error. The incomplete downloaded file is of no use and its waste of precious bandwidth and your time.
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Even if you are using an Internet download manager, they also fail many times.
I wasted about 10 GB bandwidth trying to download Windows 10 Technical preview which failed at about 2 GB and for more than 5 times. Every time the FDM shown error 'file in service has changed'.
Here is the best way to download large files. ➤ We will first save it to cloud service like Dropbox, without downloading the file locally. ➤This process is fast and there is no way to fail or getting errors as this will happen from server to server irrespective of your ISP or your network speed. ➤Now you can use the Google Drive or Dropbox desktop client as your free download manager. |
Concept
We will download or save the large web file direct to cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive. Then the Dropbox desktop client will sync the file and download it to your hard drive.It will not need any resume support and the file will download byte by byte so no waste of bandwidth at all. Dropbox will take care of not corrupting the file.
It may take little extra time than the dedicated Internet download manager software but its worth as you have a sure way and you will never lose the download in between.
Prerequisites
- You have to have a Cloud storage account like Dropbox or Google Drive or OneDrive. (Preferred is Dropbox. Why? More about it below)
Sign up for Ballloon. For this, you need a Google account. It's free and you will find it useful for many other purposes.Ballloon is now a paid service. But there is a better alternative.- A better and completely free alternative thoaimedia is available.
- There are many similar services to download files directly to cloud storage but all of them have the file size limit.
Only Ballloon is really useful that can save files up to 5 GB in size.
Steps
- Get the URL of the file.
- Get the real URL of the final downloadable file. Not the forwarding URL.
- Eg. In case of downloading Windows 10 ISO, if you directly copy the URL from Microsoft website to download the ISO, it's something like this http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=522144 but the real ISO is located at http://iso.esd.microsoft.com/W10IP/4B33E0680A465FBA52C09A34454D5EB6/Windows10_InsiderPreview_x32_EN-US_10162.iso
- To get the real URL, just try to download the file with Google Chrome. Once the download is started, cancel it and go to the download tab and then copy the real URL of the file.
- Now you have grabbed the downloading URL of the file you want to download without fail.
- Go to Thoaimedia and paste the URL in the 'file URL' box.
- Give name as you want.
- Select the cloud service you wish to save the file to. I used Dropbox. You have to allow Thoaimedia and give access permissions.
- Select folder where you want to save the file.
- After a minute or two, the file will be saved to your cloud account. You can check if the process is completed from the web account.
Note that sometimes, you may get 'Time Out' error from Thoaimedia website. But wait for 5 minutes and check on your cloud service from website. Not from the desktop client. You may have the file saved there.
- The desktop client will start to sync and download the file.
Why use Dropbox instead of Google Drive or OneDrive?
- Sync is faster and robust. Works fine even with slow Internet connections. Google Drive shows 'unable to connect' error on slow connection. (Personal Experience)
- Dropbox gives you the correct information about how much file is downloaded and how much time is remaining to complete the sync process.
- There is no way to know such information in Google Drive and OneDrive.
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If you get some problem with Dropbox to save file from Thoaimedia, you can first download the file to Google Drive and then transfer it to Dropbox by using Mover.io .Download From Dropbox Without Account
I tried it and now using it for downloading any file larger than 500 MB to be sure, that I will never lose the downloaded file halfway.Do you have any other sure-shot way to download larger files? Please share.