Posted by NnT
on 3/5/2004, 3:38 am
Good job on 1.2, by the way =) Been looking forward to it for a while.
But one thing is a bit off-- see, there's a gallery spanning several servers, with thousands of pics I want, but many of them are named the exact same thing, some generic BS like "0001.jpg" and so forth.
Now 1.2 has solved the issue of having these all dumped in one place, with the "URL Path" button...Unfortunately, this has caused a whole NEW problem.
Consider an HTML gallery constructed with Irfanview, wherein each picture is given its own web page, and the pages are linked to thumbnails. Do you see where I'm going with this?
Trying to download two such galleries into one folder (the old way) gives you stuff like 001.jpg, 001(1).jpg, 002.jpg, etc., and since you couldn't control the download order, there's no guarantee that 002(2).jpg necessarily came from the same page as 001(2).jpg (and for my purposes, they MUST be in order and separated from the lookalikes).
However, the new system does not even look for images displayed ON the sites unless you ask it to. There is an option to look for embedded images, certainly, but this is where the problem arises: try to download even one such Irfanview gallery, saved to URL paths, and you get something like this on your hard disk:
\Download\www.picsite.com\thisplace\
|- page001.htm\
| |- 001.jpg
|- page002.htm\
| |- 002.jpg
|- and so forth...
The only way to correct this issue, in my opinion, would be to add a checkbox to the "Embedded images" tab. The checkbox would be labeled "Drop last folder" or something (maybe even Irfanview Workaround), and checking it would block the creation of all last-branch sections of the directory tree. This would take care of those irritating /page000.htm/ islands and drop all the embedded images into the folder ABOVE the one the normal url path would place them in. This would solve basically all situations where the site in question does not link to images, but instead to many web documents each containing one and only one image. Sound good?
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