why are they using library/downloads instead of MEDIA/DOWNLOADS? logical? i dont think so…

@ben : because this is a Safari extension and safari is sandboxed into ~/Library – our first choice was ~/Media/Downloads but that just isn’t possible if you’re running within Safari.

@Fabian : we decided not to reinvent the wheel and embed an entire document browser/reader inside Safari – we recommend iFile or Docs (which are free) for viewing the files you downloaded – does your desktop browser open zip files or word documents for you? :P

yep

any answer for this??

edit: in gmail, it does not override built-in quicktime player to prompt media (eg. mp3) downloads but instead opens the file

this is awesome!! can we remove Safari download plug in when we have this installed?

In other words, can we use this as a replacement for the Safari Download plugin?

Can anyone tell me what kinda ram this eats up? (I’m trying to minimize the amount of mobile substrate add-ons)

Thanks

This is an awesome app definitely worth the download still some bugs I notice when trying to download some stuff when opening a new page it doesn’t work right and when using a website like mp3raid.com and trying to get music via that site doesn’t work.

I also hope better integration between the download plug in and this can work better together or if there is a way to eliminate the plug in if this will do everything the plug in does (needs to work with dtunes and installous)

Other then that I absolutely love where this is going :)

great app! thanks for the hard work. Finally an elegant native download manager.

Why don’t you develop something and let us decide if your work is worthless or not huh?

Yeah, didn’t think so. Go back to your video games in mom’s basement.

And then you’ll all complain that everything is becoming adware. I’m genuinely sorry you’re not able to see value in software.

It works the same as if you were downloading files to your PC. There’s a nice button in mobile safari right in between bookmarks and tabs to open the manager. :) :)

You can playback using any other player like Dtunes, VLCplayerforIphone etc

I am not sure why everybody is expecting everything for free these days. If you don’t think it worth your money then don’t buy it but never demand for someothers work for free.

Can you please add an option to open the downloaded file in safari I got a text file and had to manually open it with file:///, this would help for files safari can read, since you’re already in the app.

Great app! I agree with Sreekanth’s #1 comment though.. a resume would be great because my 3G connection is weak sometimes.

Adding to the above list of issues I noticed so far.

This is issue #5
I tried downloading a rar file using rapidshare direct link and the download manager prompted me if I would like to download the file even before I put in my credentials or choose the free user option and it starting downloading something and it was stuck after that.

Even if I do cancel for that option, it is not taking me to regular rapidshare webpage. Please fix this as well

Is there any way to cancel the download but yet view the video using Safaris native video player?

Hi all…
I’m not sure I do everything right… I’m tring to save an attachement from gmail through safari and your manager … I disabled safari downloader via SBsettings but I cannot suceed… what can be the problem?

Ok I think that my above issue has to do with the fact that I can’t even use the normal safari download plug in. When I try to download something right away I get a message saying “Download failed. Could not start saving file.” I used to not have an issue downloading files. What could be causing this?

Borked permissions has been the cause for me

I have this downloaded and VLCiphone also. the problem is when i clicked on the download link that i wanted to save it as to save the video onto the iphone, im not able to play it since it is a url meant to be streamed thru an player. The problem is that it is a wmv that i am very dependent on this after making the change from windows mobile to the apple software. Any idea how i can make this playable?

Wow… Version 1.1.0-1 is awesome… This is what Iphone was missing all the time and with this app my Iphone is complete. I thought resuming downloads feature would take some time to implement but it was resolved in the very first update.. I am really impressed with this app. It is well worth 2$.

The only issue I am having currently with this update is that my data connection seems to be cutting out after I cancel some download and try to open something else. I will retest it again and will let you know the exact steps to recreate.

Even the download is hanging after a bit but it is working fine again once I close the safari and reopen it again. I am not sure if it memory issue or my data connection issue or SDM issue. I will continue monitoring this and let you know the results.

Also, the animation work in SDM is nice touch to it :)

Sreekanth mentioned it at the end of his last comment – we added a little bounce animation when you download something (just like in the iTunes store app and the YourTube extension :P)

Yeah, I am also having the same issue. As of now I am not facing any issues with connection dropouts like I mentioned earlier. The issue I think was due to adblock app. After I uninstalled that my connection is good.

Given that the issue is on-and-off, I would say with 95% certainty that your data connection is to blame -might just be a bad day for your network :/

Let me start by saying that this is an extraordinary addon and v1.1 solves just about all my problems however I now have a new, very annoying problem. Whenever I open safary and then leave and go back I just can’t open the “downloads tray”…..if I download something it does download, but I can’t “see” it’s progress. If I go out and terminate safari then when I open it again there’s no problem but it’s annoying to terminate safari all the time or go out of it while downloading and return later and not know if the file has already downloaded. Another thing is that I actually liked the safari badge as that way I knew that I was downloading something….could you make it an option.

Actually the page not loading issue happens to me immediately after viewing the download tab. Once I switch back, nothing loads in that tab anymore

Every time it try to download from my mail account..or anywhere the download fails…any help would be appreciated..

Wow. This version seems very stable. All the issues I have raised earlier have been fixed. My data connection is very stable now. Thanks for fixing that important issue and thanks for the super fast updates.

1) How does retry failed downloads automatically work. I had a failed download and it never started automatically till I manually restarted it. What is the timeinterval for automatic retrys?

2) Settings file types (Built In File Types) has lost the icons next to them (Only Archive has an icon next to it). There is low priority issue. But I am raising it anyways.

More:

Settings screen that has all your built-in filetypes should show file extensions somewhere instead of just the names.

Tried adding just the wmv extension but it didn’t work until I added the mime type as well. Is this intentional and/or is it just because I was attempting to download the wmv from hotmail?

Downloading an attachment from hotmail tries to download GetAttachment.aspx. Possible to rename that to the actual attachment filename? Don’t -really- care about this since I’ll never use hotmail once you guys allow downloading gmail attachments, but I could see a similar issue cropping up on other sites that use download scripts.

sysrage: we’ve supported gmail since 1.1 :P

as for the filename thing, we forgot about ASP, if you download from servers that use php scripts it will work fine :P expect this to be fixed in 1.3

Sreekanth:

It retries within a few milliseconds of each failure, 3 times, and then gives up.

That’s a great idea, we’re noew adding the following options to the next update:

# of retry attempts
time delay for each retry attempt
enable/disable auto-retry completely

expect to see it very soon :)

Just upgraded both iFile and SDM this morning, so I’m running iFile 1.0.1-1 and SDM 1.3.0-1. Couple issues I’m seeing:

- Downloading a file that already exists doesn’t show any prompt asking if you want to overwrite the file. Option to Replace or Rename would be nice. A warning should be provided at the very least.

- Canceling a download still leaves remnants in both Library/Downloads and Library/Downloads/partial. Still think this should, at the very least, just keep a partial download in ‘partial’ and not have an incomplete file in Downloads. An option to delete canceled downloads would be useful.

- When a download is complete, I tap the file and tap “Open in iFile” and it doesn’t do anything.

I found that “Open in iFile” does not work if iFile’s icon hidden in the Springboard.

They care. Francis contacted me immediately regarding my first set of bugs and they have already fixed almost every bug people have listed here. More than worth the money.

I noticed a wierd issue today. I was trying to download a 400 MB file from megaupload and after going through authentication etc it started downloading but after couple of minutes it said download complete though it downloaded about 800KB.

Sysrage; with regard to the file in partial it is actually the connection strings to your download that is stored not a portion of the file.

francis,
Thank you for your quick reply. I’ve been using iFile w/ SBSettings’ Dock so SBS automatically hides iFile icon from Springboard…and I love this behavior until last night :P) Fortunately SBS’s Dock and “Hide Icon” can setup separately so now I can use iFile with SDM without problem.

FYI, interestingly I’ve got one more “not working properly when icon is hidden” problem last night (Universal Search).

We’re going to save the list of downloads in a new version, don’t worry! I’ve been planning on this specifically for a while.
As for confirming delete, that’s a very valid request. Thanks! #1 is being worked on and we’ll look into #2. :)
– DLJ

Hmmmmm
still waiting patiently for you to deliver a good software without all the bugs mentionned!!!!!!

Also, the request for ” more info” wasn’t for me !!!! You need to think about people with no skills…..

I’m might not have all your prog skills, but for plenty of people, I’m like a savior when they have problems with their iPhones, computers softwares/hardwares and other networks issues.

I was just trying to make a point : IT SHOULD WORK IF WE PAY FOR IT !!!!!!!

Learn how to swallow some constructives critics…….. Or invest in a good helmet :)

Comon iblackdude.. They have been very responsive to every question asked and every issue raised. They have fixed all the major issues. SDM has been very stable from 1.2 version onwards. Most of the things I raised are feature requests or changes based on user experience not really bugs.

I believe you have vented your frustration about the wrong software here. We have taken all constructive criticism in stride and sought endlessly to improve the application we’ve given you. If you don’t like it, so be it, but don’t blame us.

Regardless, it works, and the process works.
All of your complaints about the function of the software (which only amounted to “Do the things everybody else suggests”) have been resolved, for the most part, and the More Info page can and will be done soon.

I’m not sure what else you have a problem with. Please intelligently describe your issues instead of hurling useless misplaced displeasure; it makes the troubleshooting process much easier.

Also, just because there’s no outcry of “X feature is no longer broken” like there is for “X feature IS broken” does not mean that it was not silently fixed. There will always be more people to complain than to give out praise.

– Dustin L. Howett

Same problem running 3gs 3.0, installed on 3g 3.0 and 2g 3.0 works like a charm. Any solution or test ?

On the 3gs , download starts and quickly moves to Download Failed

btw I updated to OS 3.0.1 and tried with more file types (exe, doc…) NO SUCCESS.

On iPhone 3GS 3.0.1 downloads still fail after 1 or 2 seconds, no matter how big the file is (100kb – 10Mb)

Is a 3GS issue or just me and couple of guys?
I dont care about 2$, it’s more important to see this working!

Please let me know where I can get mp3′s. Thanks

help i paid while going through Google then amazon then before i could download it, through me to “500 internal server error”. i even have an amazon confirmation email.

Hallo I’m asking for some support plz! I’m not talking about bugs but about software that fails totally to work! Every file I Try to download it quickly moves to failed downloads and I can retry endless times with no difference.
Is there a way I can send u some usage logging data? Maybe it can help debug. At least I’ll appreciate to see some support, not just bugs reporting, beta testing or so, just some help to customers like me

Ldwonloda

If Dropbox doesn’t include the file extension in the URL, we can’t capture the MIME type for Office documents – Safari converts them to HTML before we get the request; that said, if the URL does indeed end in .xls, there’s a definite problem that we’ll have to look into.
Sorry!
– DLH

Fixed my failed download issue by installing iCommander from Cydia, going into var/mobile/library and changing the permissions of the downloads folder from 755 to 777. Works OK now.

Not the most tech savvy here. Glad to see the dialogue and progress on this. Kudos to the dev team. Will this, in any way allow you to get flash player? Additionally, and off topic, what’s up with getting opera mini on the iPhone? Sorry had to ask, so frustrated and I’m hoping your app is the beginning of something new and beautiful

After updating to 1.3.1, I’ve noticed that my downloads are slower then usual. I use to be getting 150 kb/s but now I only get about 60 kb/s. Anyone else noticing a different in download speed?

I don’t think WMV files are supported by Ifile. You need something like YXflash or VLC4Iphone to play that.

Fuck you

hello , please help me , i want this software free bud i can not buy it for $2.00 (USD), please help me & send your help to my mail , please help me . amir.hamidi@gmail.com
i want safari downlaod manager free download
does anyone have source free to sending me & i install with itunes on my phone

hello , can you send the source of this software to me ??? if may please send , because i dont have this software and i cant buy it because my account in apple is free . i install it with itunes on my phone
please if you can sent it to my mail
amir.hamidi@gmail.com

Stop asking to get it free If they wanted ppl to get it 4 free it would not be on the cydia store

Is there a way to choose what directory to download to?

And can this download from pages that use .asp?

Thanks!!!

bought the app

1 for the auto rename request

Ahh, never mind about the torrent downloading. It works now.

BTW, the mime type is coming through fine in the url “&mime=application/vnd.ms-powerpoint”

Hi,
Can you please see if you can fix this Safari download thing?

I need to open a zip with a PDF inside from this site

http://www.epolisroma.it/

if you look at the top you see “Giornale in PDF” that link works on PC but not on Iphone why?

Does it already work with easy-share and other internet drives?

Great app! But..
Maybe a general question because I get the same problem with the download plugin. Never the less.
When I download a .torrent file and then email that file to my ubuntu server using File2Mail for automatic download, rtorrent doesnt download. The file is somehow changed. If I email the same file, downloaded with safari from my macbook all is good. Is iphone doing this or the download app or maybe File2Mail?
Would appreciate any help!

Getting a Host Unreachable from apt.thebigboss.org when trying to download this file right now after the purchase. Was just curious if that was because the server was down with Spirit just coming out, or if there’s some problem I need to fix on my touch.

whats with ios 4 compatibility… i paid, update should be done

How can I change the default download back to var mobile Library instead of media downloads. ?

Hi guys, I tried to download torrents using safari torrent downloader but i think it conflicts with safari download manager because all torrents won’t start..
I tried to disable the .torrent option in settings -> safari download manager
I doesn’t work as well if i open the .torrent file using iFile.
and if i tap on view i can only see some code and can’t get the file to start.. any idea?

hey i changed every folder permission to 0777 still not working dl torrents. both var\mobile\library\downloads and var\mobile\media\downloads what’s wrong with it?

Haha,
Uk is for free