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

These pages are extracted from Nici's help system and require Internet Explorer v5.0 or later.

Certain interactive commands are not available in the online version.

Help Pages

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Overview of Nici
Tutorials
First Use
Typical Use
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Adding Pages
History page
Download Control Window
Report Tab
Crawl Settings Tab
Nici-Quick vs Crawl Strategies
Picture pages
Directory pages
Thumb Directory pages
Auto-Pilot
Unknown pages
Downloading Pages
Download Pages
Downloading Movies
Last Picture
Removing Pages
Download Line
Search Engines
Getting More Pictures
Viewing Pages
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Links
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Tasks and Help
Organizing Pages
My Archives
Page Rank
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FAQ
How To
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Keyboard shortcuts
Glossary
Download Report

The Download Report can be displayed 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 topicMore } that has finished downloading. Double click on the page, and then switch to the Report tab.

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 by clicking the Download Again button.