Every download, finished or not, has a row in the list. The categories on the left choose which rows you see.
Columns
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Source | Web (a web server) or Torrent. |
| File Name | The file's name, with its icon. |
| Q | A queue icon when the download is in a queue. |
| Size | The file's size, when the server told it. |
| Status | How far it is, or Complete, Error and so on. |
| Time left | While it downloads. |
| Transfer rate | The current speed. |
| Last Try Date | When it last ran. |
| Added | When you added it. |
| Description | Your note from Download File Info or Properties. |
- Sort: click a column title. Click again to reverse the order, and a third time to go back to the order of addition. View → Arrange files does the same from the menu.
- Move a column: drag its title sideways.
- Resize a column: drag the line between two titles.
- Choose columns: right-click any column title and tick the ones you want.
MDM remembers the columns, their widths and the sort order.
Filters
Each column title has a faint funnel. Click it to filter the list by that column:
- Source, Q and Status offer a few values to tick, such as only Error under Status, or only Not in a queue under Q.
- The other columns take text: type a word, and only rows whose cell contains it stay.
A filtered column's funnel turns blue. To remove every filter, right-click a column title and choose Clear all filters. Filters last until you close MDM.
Categories
The pane on the left has four branches:
- All Downloads — everything, with a node per category below it.
- Unfinished — downloads that aren't complete yet, by category.
- Finished — complete downloads, by category.
- Queues — each queue; select one to see only its downloads.
Each download falls into a category by its file type: General, Compressed, Documents, Music, Programs or Video. Torrents have their own Torrents category. Each category has its own folder, by default inside your Downloads folder (Downloads\Compressed, Downloads\Video and so on; General uses Downloads itself).
Right-click a category for:
- Browse — open its folder in Explorer.
- Properties — change its folder (and, for your own categories, its name and file types).
- Add category — make your own, for example Books for
EPUB MOBI. Give it a name, the file types (separated by spaces,*allowed) and a folder. - Delete — remove one of your own categories. Its downloads become General; their files stay where they are.
View → Hide categories gives the list the whole window.
Opening a download
- Double-click or press Enter on an unfinished download to see its progress window.
- On a finished download, double-click shows its Properties. To open the file instead, right-click any download and choose On Double click → Open.
- Alt+Enter always opens Properties.
The right-click menu has everything you can do with a download: Open, Open with..., Open folder, Move/Rename, Redownload, Resume Download, Stop Download, Refresh download address, Verify checksum..., Remove, Add to queue and Properties.
Properties
File Properties shows a download's type, status, size and folder, its address, your description, the page it came from (Referer) and a login for the site. Last try and Result tell you how its last attempt went.
- Move — move a finished file to another folder, or choose another folder for a download that hasn't started.
- Address — for an unfinished download, you can paste a new address here. See Resume a broken download.
- Open — open the file.
Move/Rename (Ctrl+M) moves or renames the file of a finished download, or of one that hasn't started yet.
Verify checksum
Many sites publish a checksum next to the download. Right-click the download, choose Verify checksum... and paste it. MDM reads MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 and CRC32. A finished file is checked at once; an unfinished one is checked when its download ends. MDM then says The file matches or The file does NOT match.
Selecting several downloads
- Ctrl+click adds or removes one download.
- Shift+click selects every download up to the one you click.
- Drag on blank space to draw a box around downloads.
- Ctrl+A selects all.
- Shift+Up / Shift+Down makes the selection longer or shorter.
Resume, Stop, Remove and the queue commands then act on all the selected downloads. The other commands need one download. The full list of keys is in Keyboard shortcuts.
Finding a download
Press Ctrl+F (or Downloads → Find), type part of the name and click Find. F3 jumps to the next match. You can also search descriptions and addresses. Step by step in Find a download in a long list.
Typing the start of a name while the list has the focus jumps to the first download whose name starts with it.
Deleting downloads
Select one or more downloads and press Delete, click Delete on the toolbar, or choose File → Remove. MDM asks first:
- Also delete the file from disk — tick it to delete the files too. For an unfinished download, this deletes the part downloaded so far. Leave it unticked to take the downloads off the list and keep the files.
- Don't show this dialog again — MDM stops asking and does what you answered this time. To be asked again, tick Options → General → Confirm before deleting downloads.
Click Yes to delete, or No to keep everything.
Shift+Delete opens the same question with Also delete the file from disk already ticked. MDM remembers your last answer and ticks the box the same way next time.
A download that is running isn't deleted. Stop it first.
Delete Completed on the toolbar (or Downloads → Delete All Completed) removes every finished download from the list, with the same question.
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