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English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: tinkerbellarulz on December 28, 2006, 10:32:14 AM

Title: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: tinkerbellarulz on December 28, 2006, 10:32:14 AM: after one month of fighting i've finally got my first finished download!! yay! but i have no idea how to move it over to a folder to be able to view it, i've tried just clicking on it and dragging as my dad told me to do which works for him, but no luck doesn't even light up or anything. also could someone please tell me what the incoming directory and temporary directory is? :D
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: wuischke on December 28, 2006, 11:59:47 AM: Hi tinkerbellarulz!

Default locations:
Downloads: ~/Documents/aMule Downloads
I think temporary files are in ~/Library/Application Support/aMule/Temp

(~ is your home directory)

You can see your directories in Preferences->Directories
Title: still cant veiw
Post by: tinkerbellarulz on December 28, 2006, 12:18:51 PM: thank you! found them in the default place but divix movies is saying unreadable file, iv'e tried puting it through the divix converter but it wont work. any ides why?
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: wuischke on December 28, 2006, 03:32:22 PM: Maybe it is not a divx film, but someone said it was one.

I hope this utility exists on Mac as well: Open a terminal and execute file filename

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tux@ubuntu:~$ file nobody* nobody-needs-to-know.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 640 x 352, 23.98 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz) nobody-needs-to-know.txt: Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text, with CRLF line terminators
Title: dont really understand
Post by: tinkerbellarulz on December 28, 2006, 04:13:31 PM: sorry dont really understand, what can i download and where can i find them? im new to this and new to macs!
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: wuischke on December 28, 2006, 04:30:51 PM: Sorry, let me rephrase this. In the ed2k network (which aMule uses) you can name a file however you want. Let's say I share a picture of my garden flowers and name it 'flower.jpg'. Now someone else may rename the file to 'car.jpg' and share it. When you search for 'car' now, it finds the renamed file, even though the file is still the same, showing my flower. Someone else may like to rename it to 'program.exe', 'song.ogg' or whatever. It will still be my flower, but when you search for the file you may believe it is something else.

I don't know about Mac, but on Linux you may check the file type by using the utility 'file'.
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: lionel77 on December 28, 2006, 04:49:57 PM: Try opening the file in vlc (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5758). That app opens all most any video file.

If that does not work, you can try the command line utility file that wuischke has mentioned. It comes with OS X, so you don't have to download it. To use it:
- open the Terminal program (in /Applications/Utilities)
- type "file " (note the space at the end)
- switch to Finder and locate the file that you have downloaded
- drag the file onto the terminal window, which makes Terminal insert the path of the file (e.g., you should now see something like "file /Users/yourName/Application Support/aMule/Downloads/yourFile.avi")
- hit return
Title: thank you
Post by: tinkerbellarulz on December 28, 2006, 07:22:15 PM: sort of got it i think thanx, but my dad has just come over and says that mine is running very very slow! as i've never used this or any thing like this i dont really now the difference, how can i speed it up? i've had movies downloading for nearly a month now and most of them aren't even a quater done.
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: lionel77 on January 04, 2007, 10:06:56 PM: Maybe this wiki page (http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_is_slow) is helpful.
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: tinkerbellarulz on January 07, 2007, 10:18:35 AM: hi, for some reason their not going into the amule download folder now! i think their in the temp folder but their all split up into little bits and divx cant read them!? any suggestions? thank you everyone for all of your help, im starting to learn a little bit about macs whilst doing this which is great!
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: blackfede on January 07, 2007, 03:11:04 PM: I's normal, if the film is not fished! Please note that even if the progress bar in aMule is all Green, the film is not completed unless you see "Completed" in the status column. Have you resolved the previous problem?
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: tinkerbellarulz on January 07, 2007, 03:38:30 PM: hi yeah the reason y they were'nt reading before it wasn't the film it was a strange file thing!?! looked at the amule bar and they are saying complete next to them but still not in the amule download file? very strange?
Title: Re: how do i view downloaded files?
Post by: ken on January 07, 2007, 05:31:48 PM: tinkerbellarulz, please make sure the Incoming directory is set to where you want completed downloads to end up. This should be different than the Temp directory.

Check the aMule log window. There may be a problem moving the files into the final destination. For example, you don't have permissions to write to the Incoming folder, there isn't enough disk space, or there's already a file there with the same name.