I was just wondering if it would be possible to post a download link with each kit that enables the person to download the entire kit at once instead of having to download each individual part of the kit?

Now that I have membership all I want for Christmas is "one click kit downloading" LOL

Oh and a bigger hard drive and some new software and ohhh a wide format printer and .....



Just kidding....

Diann

I would love that option too! It drives me crazy when so many beautiful kits go into the gallery and you have to d/l each part individually - I spent a couple of hours last night downloading and unzipping.

Since I know almost nothing about how these things work, I haven't a clue if it is possible - hopefully someone else will come along and tell us.

Regards,
Jules

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I'm with Diann and Jules, that would be so great.

Jules, I know what you mean about unzipping. Do you know "unzip them all"? You probably do, but just in case you don't, I thought I'd bring it up. A great little freeware program that makes unzipping of several files very easy.

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I would also love to have that option!

OH yes - I would definitely love that option. It takes me forever to unzip and organize all of the elements for one kit.

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I know I had asked about this back in the pre-membership days and they didn't want to do it because it basically means there are two copies on the server, which means it needs to be twice as big.

But depending on how the server is set up, it seems to me like there might be a way to re-zip the zips into a single zip on the fly. Or maybe set up a javascript link that opens all the zips at once.* My big headache is the kits with like twenty sub-zips, I always worry that I've forgotten one or two - I couldn't post my own kit here without doing that, so I didn't post it

My browser (Safari, Mac-only) automatically unzips what I download, I bet that Firefox would do it too. Plus it blocks popup windows!

~~Non techies please ignore the rest of this post, it'll be gibberish~~
*SBB web gurus, I this this could be relatively straightforward given that this is a php site, pseudocoded like:
-put all links from the variable that has the main posting in an array
-if it ends in .zip, add it to a javascript link that opens each in a separate new window
You still get a bunch of new windows and zips but you don't have to worry about missing a link or two. Some kind of rezipper would be even better, like ImageMagick but for zips instead. Given you're on a Linux server I'm sure if some bored hacker hasn't written it yet you could find one who would
ETA: Actually, I think it might even save effort for the server to have a single thread for downloading everything instead of multiple threads for downloading each piece. Essentially it would be forcing serial instead of parallel downloading.

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Rikki,

I hadn't heard of "unzip them all", thanks for sharing this, I'm off to find it now!

Regards,
Jules

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I have thought that it would be nice to have a all in one download. But i also like having the option of just downloading the parts of the kit that I want.

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1/2 way WAHOO!!!!

Come on 40!!!