What the...? GetRight works for me...

NowhereToRun · Post by **NowhereToRun** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:28 am

Believe it or not, I got GetRight to work for me using local downloads on this web site using a stupid trick.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've searched and read all that stuff about how GetRight doesn't work with local downloads on this web site, and how I really shouldn't post about this unless someone else did, but seeing as how I seem to be the only one who got around this problem, I feel I should mention how I had accomplished this bypass. (The following instructions are explained as if you were using IE as your default browser.)

Okay, first step, re-install GetRight into your computer. Done? Okay, now go to the local video you had wanted in the first place and wait those ten seconds for the download pop-up to appear. Press 'Cancel.' Yes, cancel it -- I know what I'm saying. Now that it's been cancelled, go all the way down to the bottom of the page and look for the small-font sentence saying, "If the download hasn't started by now, click here" or something like that. RIGHT-click on the link and select "Copy Shortcut." Next, open up GetRight, select File at the top, select Enter New URL to Download, then copy the shortcut into the bar that appears (if it isn't there already) and click OK. There you go -- you've just successfully begun a local download with the dreaded GetRight program that nobody likes. (You might have to start it manually depending on how you configured the options, but you'll still start it anyway.)

But the real reason why you have GetRight is so you can download fractions at a time, isn't it? Let's say, you get through half of it one night, and when you return the next, when you click on Resume, it tells you the URL of the download is missing. No problem -- just follow the above instructions to get the new URL (Go into the video again and copy it...), then bring up GetRight again, click Change URL (It's something like that--at the moment, I can't remember the exact phrase, but use your head and you should be able to figure out which one is correct.), copy and paste new URL, and voila -- download resumed exactly where you left off. (I'm guessing the reason for this is that most of the local downloads jump servers every day. Only a prediction, of course.)

Just so you know, using this method, I've downloaded over twenty videos so far with absolutely no other problems using this program. Hell, one time, I got through about 75% of one video one night, discovered the phone had been disconnected the following night, waited two weeks before we could put it back again, and restarted the video again at the exact spot where it left off. It was my biggest video I had ever downloaded, so I was so relieved that no data had been lost over the two weeks without a phone.

The thing is, I am running on a 56k modem, using Internet Explorer version 6, GetRight at ver. 5.2, the unregistered, unpaid-for, "We're gonna keep bothering you to buy the damn thing until you finally do," version. As it is, I have not experienced only one problem using GetRight, and that was with another web site. (It's a ROM site, so don't bother asking which one.) Using this method, however, has yet to fail me. If you are having trouble using this method, I'd like to know so I can help clear it up. (But if it just so happens that that small link isn't there... Get Firefox instead. I don't know how to help you there.)

NowhereToRun · Post by **NowhereToRun** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:32 am

I hate not being able to edit messages...

I had forgotten to put this above, but just so you know, I'm not a technical genius at all. I just did a little messing around to discover this, so really, I can only answer questions regarding the method used above.

Sorry for the extra reply.

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:16 am

getright was not suppose to work?

NowhereToRun · Post by **NowhereToRun** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:56 am

getright was not supposed to work?

I can't tell if you're joking or not. If you go into Search, type in "GetRight", search only in the Site Help area, you'll get about fifteen or so topics about no one can get GetRight to work right. (Get... GetRight... Right... o_O)

Really, I want to post this in that one stickied topic up there about resuming downloads, but I hate the fact that it's locked... Oh well. Somebody please try this method out for me so I can know that it's not just my computer that allows it.

Ratt · Post by **Ratt** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:57 pm

I don't know about GetRight. iGetter is a better manager IMO. But the important thing is that my download manager works.

It works because I'm using Firefox with the Flashgot extension, which allows the Fox to hand over the AMV downloads immediately to iGetter. It should be able to do the same thing for other managers I think.

For the record: I'm using a download manager because
1) this is the only way to download one file at a time and not having to wait for it to finish before manually starting the next download (iGetter queues them so everything's automatic)
2) this way I can limit the download speed of each file. I don't want to eat up too much of AMV's bandwidth at once, and besides I need to devote much of my own bandwidth to other things while I'm downloading AMVs.

...that's right, I'm using a DL manager to slow things down.

You can stop staring now.