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

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Unknown pages

If Nici-Quick {Nici-Quick is the default download strategy. It quickly and efficiently downloads, and classifies pages as either Picture pages or Directory pages. Nici also offers the Crawl download strategy which can be used if Nici-Quick does not correctly handle the page. Show more help for this topicMore } can not see a series of pictures, and can not see many links in a downloaded web-page, the 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 } is classified as an unknown page.

This can happen when the page is a trick page {Trick page: There are many links and web-pages that do not contain pictures, but are designed to trick you into going to a page full of advertising banners and blind alleys. These pages are safely displayed in Nici, but Nici may not be able to select any good pictures..

To determine whether the page is empty or a trick page, switch to either the links view {The links view shows all the links that Nici found in the page. The links view is used to add new pages to the download line Show more help for this topicMore } or 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 } . If there are few links or the source view is blank, it is likely that the page is a trick page.

To investigate further, you can:

If Nici mis-analyzed the page, you can: