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- <h2>How to Download a Web Site</h2>
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- <b>1. <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#background-information">Background Information</a></b><br>
- - <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#projects-and-tasks">Projects and Tasks</a><br>
- - <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#depths-and-filters">Download Depths and Filters</a><br>
- <b>2. <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#steps">Steps to Download a Web Site</a></b><br>
- <b>3. <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#exporting">Exporting</a></b><br>
- <b>4. <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#problems">Common Problems and Resolutions</a></b><br>
- - <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#download-problems">Problems with Downloading</a><br>
- - <a href="wrinfo://downloadwebsites#export-problems">Problems with Exporting</a><br>
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- <a name="background-information"></a><h3>1. Background Information</h3>
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- <a name="projects-and-tasks"></a><h4>Projects and Tasks</h4>
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- <p>Offline Commander is a software application capable of
- creating and reading Offline Commander project files.
- Offline Commander project files are stored on disk with .ocp extension.
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- <p>A project file may contain multiple Tasks.
- Offline Commander task is an automated process for downloading a Web site.
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- <a name="depths-and-filters"></a><h4>Download Depths and Filters</h4>
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- <p>Offline Commander can automatically download a Web page, all pages
- linked to the Web page, all pages linked to those Web pages and so on.
- You should tell Offline Commander when to stop. You do this by
- setting the Download Depth and Filters.
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- <p>Download Depth is the minimum number of clicks you have to make to
- reach the last Web page that Offline Commander should download. If you
- set the Depth to 0 Offline Commander will download only the starting Web page.
- If you set the Depth to 1 Offline Commander will download the page and all
- the pages linked to the page. You can set the Depth to any value up to 99.
- The program downloads Web sites by levels so you can stop a task when a site
- is downloaded down to a level you think is sufficient.
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- <p>If you want to download an entire Web site you should set the Depth to
- the maximum value. If at least one Web page on the site will have a link
- to another Web site Offline Commander will download that site too.
- To avoid this you should always specify filters. Filters tell Offline
- Commander what it should download and what it shouldn't. You don't have
- to know much about filters because if you set the Depth to 0
- Offline Commander will not set the filter and if you set the Depth to
- anything higher than 0 Offline Commander will suggest a default filter that
- will limit the download to main site only.
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- <p>To learn more about filters, click the Help button on the Filters tab
- of the New Task dialog window.<br>
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- <a name="steps"></a><h3>2. Steps to Download a Web Site</h3>
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- <p>When you first launch Offline Commander it prompts you for the name
- of a new project file. Specify a name for the new project and press Ok.
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- <p>Initially the new project will be empty. To create a new task, type the
- address of the Web site into the Address bar, set the Depth, and click Get.
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- <p>Offline Commander can be in two modes: Offline or Online. In Offlile mode
- every task you create will be queued for download but the actual download
- will start only after you press the Go Online button. When you create a
- task in Offline mode Offline Commander will suggest you to switch to
- online mode. If you switch to online mode without connecting to
- the Internet the task will download with error "The server could not be
- reached". You can switch to online mode and back to offline mode
- by clicking the Go Online/Go Offline button on the main toolbar (which is
- on the left in the default docking configuration).
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- <p>Address bar will let you specify only the most common parameters:
- starting page address and download depth. Other options are available
- in the New Task dialog or Task Properties dialog (which are essentially
- the same window with different titles).
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- <p>After you switch to online mode the download will start and you will
- see the files being downloaded in the Progress window. After everything will
- be downloaded (the task will be marked as downloaded and there will be no
- files being downloaded in the progress window) you should switch back
- to offline mode. You can pause the download by switching to offline mode
- at any time. You can later resume the download by pressing the Go Online button.
- You can change all properties of a task (including the Depth and filters)
- before, during, or after the download.
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- <p>You can disconnect from the Internet after switching to offline mode.
- Double click the task to view the downloaded pages in the built-in browser.
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- <a name="exporting"></a><h3>3. Exporting</h3>
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- <p>The downloaded Web site will be stored inside the project file.
- You can browse the site with the built-in browser but if you want to create a
- browsable copy of a Web site on disk so that it could be viewed by the external
- Internet Explorer, Natscape Navigator, Opera or any other browser
- you should export the task or entire project file to the file system.
- To export the entire project, press the Export button on the main toolbar
- (on the left), specify the folder where the copy should be saved, and press Ok.
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- <a name="problems"></a><h3>4. Common Problems and Resolutions</h3>
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- <a name="download-problems"></a><h4>Problems with Downloading</h4>
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- <p>If you have problems downloading a Web site (e.g. some pages were not downloaded)
- try browsing the pages in the built-in browser while the program is in Online mode.
- This will solve the problem.
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- <p>Click the Search button on the main toolbar. Uncheck the Success and Queued check
- boxes. Click Ok. This will list all files downloaded with errors.
- Some of these errors may be transient. To try to download these files again. To do this,
- select all files (Ctrl-A) and click the Refresh button on the toolbar at the top.
- Then go online and they will be automatically downloaded.
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- <p>If you have problems with particular pages make sure the same pages can be viewed
- in Internet Explorer.
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- <p>To see a list of files downloaded by a task, select the Task and click the
- List button on the Task toolbar. If the list contains too many files and you have
- difficulties locating the file by URL, click on the URL column to sort the files by
- URL or search for this file by URL using the search feature.
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- <a name="export-problems"></a><h4>Problems with Exporting</h4>
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- <p>First make sure the pages browse without problems in the built-in browser.
- If the exported site has any JavaScript links, it may make it impossible to
- export the Web site correctly without modifying the JavaScript code.
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