Re: Download Director

Well I completely agree it's a colossal PITB for sure. For LicPgm downloads its also pretty much the only option unless you like spending your entire day clicking on download links and watching only two files at a time download. It took me over an hour to get the proper combination of brower and Java to play nice and let me download.

HEY IBM: WE LIKE BATCH FTP! (Are you Listening??)

That said the folder I downloaded to (with a 73 in the name) was right next to 71 and 72 and those both have XML toolkit in them and it did not find those or complain they were duplicates which as you say they are.

My guess is that it's not really searching for them it's looking at Download Director previous downloads so DD knows it has grabbed those files previously. In my case it was the first time I got DD to work on that VM so it had no history to befuddle it.

Perhaps locate a previous downloads or history file and smoke that??

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On 4/18/2016 8:58 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

Does anyone know how to force download director to download EVERYTHING you
ask for regardless of if it finds a file on another subdirectory or drive
letter?



For instance, apparently the XML toolkit was not updated, OK, no issue with
that but don't search the drive letter and say you downloaded this before on
some other directory (V7R2) so now I won't download it. It makes getting a
complete copy of a distribution really hard.



Download directory drives me nuts. If the designers ever had to live in the
real world outside of IBM's glass house they would understand their
specifications are awful.



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Jim Oberholtzer

Agile Technology Architects