Does anyone know whether FDM can be made to work with uploaded.net/ul.to download links for someone with a premium account?

Thank you.

Magic

You should ask the uploaded.net support, you have paid for it.

Thank you for the suggestion, but I was hoping that someone on this forum with actual experience of using FDM in conjunction with an uploaded.net premium account could give me some pointers. Anybody here with such experience?

Magic

IIRC, a year ago I have tested free ul.to account in FDM with no problem (using download limited to a single connection), but file hosting services change their scripts very often so it may not work now. That's why you should first ask the service support - only they know what they have change recently. Our yesterday's experience may be inadequate today.

The problem is, as with most filehosting sites, uploaded.net is good at taking the customers' money, but not good at answering their questions. By 'not good', I mean no response at all after repeated inquiries.

I know the answer to my question is not straightforward because uploaded.net is not download manager friendly. IDM's explanation of how to make it work with uploaded.net will give you an idea <http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/sites11.html>. I was also hoping FDM would have an FAQ section dealing with filehosting sites as the IDM's website has.

I have only used FDM for a few days and I already prefer it to IDM. I particularly hate the way that each file downloaded by IDM has to be rebuild. Unforturnately, if I can't make FDM work with uploaded.net, I will have to switch back to IDM.

Magic

MagicRum wrote:The problem is, as with most filehosting sites, uploaded.net is good at taking the customers' money, but not good at answering their questions. By 'not good', I mean no response at all after repeated inquiries.

Usually the answer is - use only download/upload helper provided by the file hosting owner.

MagicRum wrote:I know the answer to my question is not straightforward because uploaded.net is not download manager friendly. IDM's explanation of how to make it work with uploaded.net will give you an idea <http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/sites11.html>. I was also hoping FDM would have an FAQ section dealing with filehosting sites as the IDM's website has.

But who will provide information for the FAQ, when file hosting users refuse to ask the service support? FDM is free, it has NO paid support, so only premium account users can be helpful. And they don't want to.

MagicRum wrote:I have only used FDM for a few days and I already prefer it to IDM. I particularly hate the way that each file downloaded by IDM has to be rebuild. Unforturnately, if I can't make FDM work with uploaded.net, I will have to switch back to IDM.

You have got a few days to search this forum. Do it now, and I'm sure you'll find some general rules (like use Site Manager to provide your login name, password and limit connections) and some more detailed explanations.
"File hosting", "premium account", rapidshare are good keywords for the start.

I gotta second this. Until a few days ago my uploaded.to premium account used to work fine (grabbing login info from IE), now that I have upgraded to Windows 8 (and reinstalled FDM in the process) it no longer does. No matter what I do, FDM doesn't seem to grab IE10's cookies. Sidenote: Rapidshare premium doesn't work either. Tried installing older versions to see if that fixes it to no avail, will try the beta from the forum here now.

Just letting you know it doesn't work with the beta either (neither RS nor UL).

myg wrote:Just letting you know it doesn't work with the beta either (neither RS nor UL).

Thanks for the info. It's been already explained in"Windows 8 problems" topic, that it's a server-side problem with JavaScript. If I understand the problem correctly, Microsoft implemented in IE10 more strict rules for JS and that way blocked some ways of JS abusing or running buggy JS code. As a premium account user you should report the problem with IE10 to file hosting admins.
Your info would be even more helpful if you could test FDM with Firefox in Windows 8 and report here your results. Thanks in advance.

i'm on W7 and still can't make FDM work with ul.to

would very much appreciate some guidance.

Usher wrote:Your info would be even more helpful if you could test FDM with Firefox in Windows 8 and report here your results. Thanks in advance.

Sure, but what specific functions do you want me to test? As far as I'm aware FDM only grabs cookies from IE, does it not? If it were to work with Firefox cookies that would probably entirely solve my problem.

flagpole wrote:i'm on W7 and still can't make FDM work with ul.to
would very much appreciate some guidance.

Hi flagpole, I think it's more of a IE9 vs 10 thing rather than W7 vs 8. I used to have IE9 installed on W7 and W8 came preinstalled with IE10, so I'm not able to test it on this computer (unless there's a way to downgrade to an earlier version, will look into it after this post).

If, however, you're running IE9 (or lower), the procedure is this:
1. Uninstall FDM, reboot, reinstall FDM.
2. If FDM is running, make sure to close it. (Check task icon next to the Windows clock.)
3. Open IE, visit uploaded.to, login. Make sure cookies are enabled in IE's settings.
4. Close IE (do not log out of uploaded.to).
5. Open FDM. Try an uploaded.to link you know to be working.

I am grateful for the advice. Still can't get it to work though.

it is IE 9 i'm using. or at least it is that i have installed. IDM picks up the cookie and works just fine. but i hate IDM.

i've done what you said. uninstalled, rebooted. logged in (IE). launched.

also logged in, logged out, FDM running, not running. Ahhhh

it would help i guess if there were a bit more transparency in the cookie pilfering process.

flagpole wrote:Still can't get it to work though. [...] but i hate IDM.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

I just booted up my netbook (which still runs W7) to see if I'm still able to use uploaded.to through FDM like I used to. And sure enough, it works. However, I noticed that I don't actually have IE9 on it but IE8. :/

Yeah, with recent events I've been forced to switch over to IDM for now too, but I dislike it for a number of reasons. (For instance the making of a distinction between main and sync queues, the lack of support for ctrl+shift+v to add links to the queue, the constantly wrong downstream info, the inability to automatically remove downloaded links from the queue (okay, maybe this is just me, but I scoured the settings long and hard), and finally the fact that the program takes forever to start on the next link once it finishes downloading one! It if you take a look at the temp directory, you see that it splits the file into multiple parts and stitches it together once they all finish downloading. This can, depending on the file size, take ages -- yet FDM does it instantly. )

Yep i dislike the way it handles temp files and stitches them together. completely unnecessary i/o thrashing.

i dislike that it doesn't clear completed downloads too. though i accept that this is me being weird.

main thing is that there doesn't appear to be a way of capping the total download speed. i find if you are downloading in your download manager with a dozen connection it introduces a latency else where. so i generally cap my downloads to 90% of the connection speed. the IDM speed limiter makes this very hard.