Summary : agents regroup addresses that are navigation starting points. Moreover, agents are created through a convivial wizard.

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An agent may be used in quite different ways in accordance with needs and  imagination. Web monitoring, casual downloads or updates applied to your personal information database are just given examples.
In case an agent is closed (therefore not visible in tree directory), it shall be completely ignored.
Each time you create an agent, the wizard guides you step by step : open File menu and select New Agent.

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An agent can be made up with a single address or multiple ones, with Netscape bookmarks or Internet Explorer favourites, organized as directories or subdirectories. Here is a comprehensive description of agents :

1. A classic "agent" will start from either an address you type in or from a set of adresses within a directory (both are equivalent) you can fine tune afterwards. Deleting such an agent erases its whole content. 
2. Netscape Bookmarks (option is darkened if you don't use Netscape, or if you already have created a related agent) : this agent starts working with Netscape bookmarks. It is enough you click any link for eCatch to download it. Next time you open this agent, eCatch will verify you work with the latest version of Netscape Bookmarks. Deleting this agent erases all its content, though the true bookmark file is never modified.
3. Internet Explorer favourites (option is darkened if you don't use IE). This agent grabs either all IE favourites, or a single subdirectory. Instead of duplicating those files, eCatch stores related information within the file (favourites have the .url extension and can be viewed through a text editor). Thus, dragging or erasing a favourite in eCatch means you do alike in IE (a message warns you).
   
   On the one hand, if you use IE or the Windows explorer to reorganize the content of your favourites, eCatch won't find out the corresponding downloaded pages; on the other hand, adding a new shortcut with IE to a folder monitored by eCatch makes it visible and ready for offline download next time you start the software (according to checked options in parent folder).
   
   Due to security reasons, eCatch prevents you from totally erasing such an agent. In case you do, eCatch merely deletes extra information added to favourites and the corresponding downloaded files : from IE view point, there won't be any change.

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