Rapidshare Software

tsinc80697 · 21 Mar 2008 at 21:58

Had a google and couldn't find anything, and it's been annoying me for a while!

Are there any programs like RapGet but for Mac, as it's a pain in the arse having to download on my PC then transfer to my mac!

For anyone that doesn't know what RapGet is, it allows you to queue up rapidshare downloads and limit the speed and how many transfer at once etc

Hxc · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:13

I used Speed Download when I had a Mac, but I use Flashget on the PC, so I just moved to another download manager.

tsinc80697 · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:21

Just tried that but it doesnt download rapidshare links correctly.

had this problem on the PC with download managers.

I think the program has to be specifically made for rapidshare links otherwise it just downloads a few kb and says its complete!

Hxc · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:24

Are you using a premium account or not? If it's not premium then I don't know what to suggest.

tsinc80697 · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:44

Yeah it is a premium.
Had this problem with download manager software on the pc. It thinks that the RAR files are HTML so just downloads several kb's and not the full file

Hxc · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:46

Aha!

Go to rapidshare, login to your premium, click the button that says "Options", and check the box that says "Direct-Downloads".

That should solve all your troubles

tsinc80697 · 21 Mar 2008 at 23:36

Yeah I've got that turned on, still does it

Hxc · 22 Mar 2008 at 00:16

That's really weird...mine works fine with a big list of links...sorry mate can't be of help :/

Jet · 22 Mar 2008 at 00:23

I use Download Queue with Rapidshare on my Mac. Works great. Maybe try that?

tsinc80697 · 22 Mar 2008 at 11:34

Just tried that download queue.

Installed it, copy/pasted a load of links from RS.com into it and it does the same thing, says it can't download the files as they are being redirected so it jsut downlaods a 3kb html file

Jet · 22 Mar 2008 at 11:51

tsinc80697 said:
Just tried that download queue.

Installed it, copy/pasted a load of links from RS.com into it and it does the same thing, says it can't download the files as they are being redirected so it jsut downlaods a 3kb html file

What happens if you click one of the links or paste them in a browser window?

Do they download in Safari or go to another page first?

tsinc80697 · 22 Mar 2008 at 12:33

if I paste a link into the browser window it just opens a download box straight away

SS-89 · 22 Mar 2008 at 13:22

Do all the files have .html on the end?

If so copy the list into word and delete all the .html endings and then copy the list into your download manager. That worked for me at least (Just use find and replace in your word processor).

tsinc80697 · 22 Mar 2008 at 14:59

All the files have .rar on the end ie

http://rapidshare.com/files/2134123/backup.rar

Copy/Paste directly into download queue and every link comes up with a yellow triangle. Click that and it says its a redirect URL :/

toosepin · 22 Mar 2008 at 18:51

I use Speed Download. It's never failed for me and is really simple to use

daven1986 · 22 Mar 2008 at 20:26

i use downthemall, and i made my own extension that takes all the plaintext links selected and opens a new tab with them all as clickable links - then i use downthemall to find all the links and download them

tsinc80697 · 22 Mar 2008 at 22:16

What did you put in the extension for dTa daven?

Hxc · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:04

On your speeddownload settings...have you got your username and password in the site properties (forgotton what it's called exactly on speeddownload)?

That could theoretically cause the problem.

dobbsy · 25 Mar 2008 at 22:05

same problem for me too

tsinc80697 · 26 Mar 2008 at 11:17

Yeah still cant get it to work, I can use downloadThemall to queue them up but thats by copy/pasting each link individually and adding them manually :/