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Developer
Ecamm Network, LLC
DownloadComment places the original URL of a downloaded file into the Finder Comments area of that file, allowing you to retrieve the data by using the "Get Info" command. This functionality was part of Netscape on OS 9 but is missing from Safari. DownloadComment brings it back.
What's New
Version 1.2.1
- Adds support for Safari 3 final release including Leopard support.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Safari 1.2 or later
Intel/PPC, Safari 1.2 or later
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| Downloads:14,401 |
| Version Downloads:5,730 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Free |
| Date:23 Dec 2007 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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DownloadComment places the original URL of a downloaded file into the Finder Comments area of that file, allowing you to retrieve the data by using the "Get Info" command. This functionality was part of Netscape on OS 9 but is missing from Safari. DownloadComment brings it back.
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Without DC, I've noticed the URL of a Safari download will occasionally mysteriously appear in the file's Spotlight Comments field. Seems to mostly happen after downloading previously downloaded files but yesterday it surprisingly happened with a new URL of a first-time download. Clueless to the cause; wish it was a consistent, reliable behavior like DC used to provide.
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Therefore: Great little helper!
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If you'd bothered to read the reviews I was responding to, you would have read things like this:
shockerspaz:
"I dont get it. Am I the only one that already has this functionality in Safari 3?
sjk responds:
Even Safari 2 already adds that "Where from" (kMDItemWhereFroms) Spotlight metadata without using DownloadComment, but I don't know if Safari 3 adds the download URL to Spotlight comments without DownloadComment (Safari 2 doesn't).
shockerspaz responds:
it sure does!
sjk responds:
If Safari 3 saves download URLs both as "Where from" (kMDItemWhereFroms) metadata *and* as Spotlight comments then can anyone think of a reason to still use DownloadComment?
xxxciter says:
"This is already done automatically in Mac OS X 10.4 (maybe earlier) and Safari 2 !!!"
So elegraphy, tell me how all that can be interpreted in any other way, than several people saying that what DownloadComment does, is automatically done in OS 10.4? Hence my question.
Of course, xxxciter clouds the issue by including a link to a utility that does essentially what DownloadComment does, instead of proving that OS 10.4 does it all by itself.
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If you drag&drop a file (e.g. an image) to your finder it doesn't add the download path to the file comment.
With DownloadComment Installed it does!
Hope that helps. ;-)
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Tice reviewed on 23 Dec 2007
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Thanks for reminding me DC is responsible for that. It's the only reason I need to keep using DC until generic Safari does the same thing (if ever).
(see Get Info window: More Info section: "Where From")
Mac Pro Tip:
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/downloadsource.html
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Lorin-Rivers reviewed on 14 Jul 2006
I love this thing!