Absolute Beginner's Tutorial to using jDownloader 0.

4 with Free Version of

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17.04.2009, 09:29
whattheheck Join Date: Apr 2009
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Absolute Beginner's Tutorial to using jDownloader 0.4 with Free Version of Rapidshare
I wrote the following very basic beginner's tutorial to help out users on another site which i work on. Since there's
not a lot of documentation for jDownloader yet, i figured you can have this if you want until the full documenation
comes online.

Haven't used this app for very long myself so excuse any errors in my method.

Rgds,
/heck

Beginner's Tutorial
The purpose of this beginner’s tutorial is to introduce how to use JDownloader, in a very basic fashion, to
download a set of Rapidshare links, which have been found on a webpage and to automatically extract those
downloaded files to whatever file(s) they contain. i.e. a set of rapidshare links may contain a single avi or a folder
containing a number of files.

Jargon
RS – Rapidshare

Procedure
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1. When you first start it up, the chances are you see a dialog box similar to Image A. Just click “OK” to download
the available downloads.

2. Don’t worry if you don’t see a dialog box like that shown below. This just means that jDownloader is already
totally up to date. If it's upto date then skip to step 4.

Image A
3. You’ll now see a dialog box like Image B. Just click “OK” and let jDownloader install the updates.

Image B

4. You’ll now see the main jDownloader window, as in Image C.

Image C
5. At this point go to the webpage, with the RS links you want to download from. Select them all, then Right-click
and copy them all. (See Image D). Don’t forget to make note of any password, as you’ll require that later.

Image D
6. Now go back to jDownloader and select “File -> Add -> Add Links” as shown in Image E.

Image E

7. The “Add Links” window will open with the links you previously copied already in there. (see Image F). If you
find the links aren’t in that window or there’s some other rubbish there, just delete the unwanted stuff and manually
copy and paste in the required links.

Image F
8. When the links are satisfactory click “Add” as shown above, in Image F.

9. The ”Link Collector” window will now open. (see Image G below).

10. Item 1 is the package name. This is useful if you want to queue up multiple sets of RS links to download. If you
are just downloading one set of links, as in the example, then this can be left as “various”.

11. Item 2 is the directory where you want the RS files (and the file(s) extracted from them) to be stored.

12. If the RS links came with a password (see Image D) then put it at Item 3, otherwise just leave this blank.

Image G

13. Item 4 in Image G, should be ticked to ensure that the files downloaded from RS get extracted.
14. The column marked by Item 5 above, shows the status of the files at each of the RS links. In the example all the
files are available and so are marked online. In reality some of the files may not be available for download (e.g.
links are dead or RS servers offline) so some of these files may show as offline.

15. If all the links show as “online” then click “Accept all” (Item 6 above).

Image H

16. You’ll now get a window similar to the one in Image H. Just clicked the Green arrow to start the download.

17. If you’re using the ordinary non-pay version of RS, then there’s a wait time before each individual file can be
downloaded. See Image I

Image I

18. Image J just shows what completed files look like in the jDownloader display. (i.e. File 001 and File 002)

Image J
19. As you can see in image J, there are two parts downloaded and we’re waiting for permission to download part
3.

20. You can bypass the wait time by changing your IP address (e.g. switching your modem/router combination
off/on usually achieves this) but most people don’t bother doing this, as they prefer to just start jDownloader and
forget about it until everything is finished.

21. It is also possible to grant jDownloader access to your modem so that it (jDownloader), can reset your modem
in order to get a new IP address, but that’s beyond the scope of this beginner’s tutorial.

22. When all of the RS files are successfully downloaded, then jDownloader will automatically extract the contents
of them and put that in the folder specified by Item 2 of Image G.