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Online help pages for the Nici Picture Downloader for Windows 98,ME,2000,XP and 2003.

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Certain interactive commands are not available in the online version.

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Download Report
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Download Report

The Download Report can be opened for any page {A page starts as a url address of a web-page and is listed on the left-hand side of the Nici window. When a page is first added, it is classified as a waiting page, then as a downloading page, then as a finished page. The Nici-Quick strategy further classifies a finished page as either a picture page or directory page depending on what it contains. Show more help for this topic More } that has finished downloading. Right-click on the page, and then click on View Download Report...

The top pane of the window contains a tree of all the links that Nici has found in the page, and the web-pages downloaded from following those links.

Clicking on a line in the top pane, displays a report in the bottom pane. This report shows the result of the download, and the raw http headers that Nici sent and received.

If the Status of a link is either "Error" or "Not Scheduled", you can try for more pictures, right-click on the page and click on either Quick Download More or switch to Crawl {Crawl downloading is the backup download strategy. Unlike the the Nici-Quick download strategy, Crawl downloading systematically downloads and searches through all links. Before starting a Crawl download, a number of parameters need to be chosen.Show more help for this topic More } downloading by clicking Crawl Download More... (advanced).