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Originally Posted by mark|3

i've encountered another problem where i try to download the file (pdf) , it displays on the current page. One will need to backspace to return to the forum/download page. Any solutions? thanks

If it's not on the "Open File Directly in Browser", it should open in a new window normally. What browser are you using? Also give it a try in another one.

Originally Posted by maidos

please there something wrong, i always get error file not found or blank page...
server load is under 1, and everything is working acordingly on the server

I don't know what could cause such a random error. If it happened to the attached images, it could be the problem CyberRanger sorted out, but for uploading files the 666 chmod is done correctly. Also you are talking about random errors, so it can't be a chmod problem (or even a PHP problem). Those errors wouldn't be random occuring then, but always.

Can you check your Apache error log? Are there any (related) errors with downloads.php?

Originally Posted by maidos

can you make feature to allow xx download at the time while maybe on other usergroup u can allow more xx downloads

That's already possible, just use the usergroup permissions
There's a per usergroup setting to control the amount of downloads.

Originally Posted by Auron

does this mod allow for rapdshare type functionality, or is there a mod to allow it?

a l help out at a large forum which uses this module (which l see has been updated since the version it currently has) and we are having an issue with people creating up to several account just to get around the daily bandwidth limitations that are in place, its getting quite annoying weeding out these users, so an ability to limit these users based on cookies or even a time limit between downloading per IP would be useful (of course the time limit wouldnt be mentioned but it could be set for an hour or two in hopes to combat those ungrateful users who only want to download content and leave without considering that some sites only have some much bandwidth to spread between each user)

Normally you can just set the download delay in the settings, or use the usergroup permissions to set download delays per usergroup (which is overwriting the overall setting). It's checking the username AND the IP already, so it should work.

Originally Posted by hugh_

Could I suggest leaving out the URL data from search results?

I don't think we are going to do that as this is the same method vBulletin uses for the forum search.

Originally Posted by chikkoo

hey,

I am using DownloadII to upload my articles in PDF format, and people leech my content but never say even thanks. Later on I found all my leeched articles in someother site.

Is there a way to add some hidden fields or information in the pdf file or properties, such as downloaded username and the date downloaded.

I saw some medical websites (http://www.nejm.com), they use this technique to put who is downloading their article. How do they do it?

They're probably using the PHP PDF functions to do this or another PHP class (there are more of them). This isn't an easy to add thing as it requires some special functions (or a separate class) and it's a pretty load to include this in DownloadsII as it won't be used by a lot of people. It could be something for an add-on.

You can also make your copyright and distribution rights clear at the top of the PDF with your site url etc. and send a mail to those sites.

Originally Posted by butch3r

I made that.. and it works now..
btw i've translated it to Russian language, can i post it somewhere?

You may always attach it here to a post


@All: I'm answering the other questions in a next batch of responses