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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.

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Thumb Directory pages

Thumb Directory pages are Directory pages {The Nici-Quick download strategy classifies a web-page as a Directory page if it contains many links to picture pages. Directory pages are often updated each day with new links and can be used to add new picture pages to the download line. Show more help for this topicMore }, but instead of using words to describe the listed Picture pages {The Nici-Quick download strategy classifies a web-page as a Picture page if it contains a series of pictures. Nici-Quick then automatically downloads these pictures. Show more help for this topicMore }, they include a sample thumbnail picture.

If the Directory page is a Thumb-directory page {A directory page that includes a sample thumbnail for each picture page that it lists Show more help for this topicMore }, go to the source view {The source view shows the page like a web-browser. Clicking on links adds new pages to the download line. Show more help for this topicMore } and use the Get Images button to download the thumbnail pictures.

The Tasks view will identify if a page is a Thumb Directory page.