GrabIt will prepare a list of available newsgroups and present you with an overview. In the menu on the left side you can right click on the name of your news server in our case news. You can also activate a secure SSL-connection if your Usenet provider supports this feature.
And you can change the number of connections, with a maximum of 50 simultaneous connections. The higher the number of connections, the faster your downloads will be. It will depends on your Usenetprovider and your subscription how many connections you can use. In our reviews you can see the number of connections offered by each provider.
GrabIt will automatically generate a new sub folder in your regular download folder. All files downloaded through GrabIt will end up in that folder by default. But you can set a new destination folder for your downloads if you like using this menu. Now the configuration has been completed, we can finally start using GrabIt. Downloading with GrabIt can be done in two different ways:. An NZB file is a very small file which simply contains information about where a larger file can be found on Usenet.
If you want to download something through Usenet, then you first have to download the corresponding NZB file. You can do this in the following way:. If you want to download from another server directly, however, it would probably be better to download the headers from that server first.
If you enabled Repair and Extract in your settings, GrabIt will verify the downloaded files and repair and extract them after downloading, according to your chosen preferences. To the next chapter: Usenet Search and Browser. Start General Introduction for beginners Usenet related terms What are incomplete files? What is an NZB file? Find option and Filters You hate going through thousands of posts that you already downloaded to find the one binary you haven't got?
With the advanced filters and find options in GrabIt you won't have to! Hide or show the articles you already downloaded. Match thousands of binaries and newsgroups with multiple keywords, with GrabIt it's done in seconds!
Incremental group update Don't download the same headers time after time! The Incremental Update feature of GrabIt is the fastest way to download new headers. Post articles Want to request a repost or thank somebody for their great post? With GrabIt running you don't have to start another newsreader to post a message.
Just hit the post button, type your message and GrabIt takes care of the rest! Latest news Sep 12th I had a good deal on some new servers, so I replaced 4 of the older servers with new servers. Result is faster response times to the GrabIt Search. Happy grabbing everybody! Jun 15th Credit card payments are back online! I'm going to start closing accounts that are expired in the next few hours.
If you have any problems signing up please let me know. Re: Everything I download fails Post by fajer » Sun Jul 29, pm ok I'm going to try an alternative program and will check back in once I've tested, thanks shypike. Re: Everything I download fails Post by blitzd » Wed Aug 22, am I'm running into the same issue - looking at the messages I see that it says there's missing posts all over the place, however Grabit downloads the same articles fine.
It's also not happening on all NZB files, some work fine. I have 2 backup servers set up and the same articles seem to be missing there when it tries as well. I'll send a few of the NZB files along in a few In my case, every download finished with a failure, because the downloaded archive supposedly required a password. With one download, that's possible. With two, maybe.
But not five in a row, when I know for sure that the last one didn't require a password when it was downloaded a week ago. As it turns out, there was a. Deleting the protected RAR file solved it moving it out of the downloads-folder probably would have worked as well. Perhaps you're experiencing a similar issue? As for me, I turned Minimize to tray on, because I want GrabIt to minimize to my system tray when downloading.
In the lower part of this tab I selected Grab selected is the default action. Here we can change the default locations for the cache and the download folder. I left the entries as they were, but feel free to enter your own locations.
This allows us to set up the priorities of the download processes. We have arrived at the last configuration tab, Posting. It is possible to post short text messages into a Usenet newsgroup using GrabIt. I recommend using a fake e-mail address to prevent your mailbox being flooded with spam.
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