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seansfkelley / nas-download-manager

An open source browser extension for adding/managing download tasks to your Synology DiskStation.
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customization of target location #187

Closed brainchild0 closed 3 years ago

brainchild0 commented 3 years ago

Users running the extension on multiple systems may wish for finer control of the download destination, for example, by configuring a separate subfolder for each client, or in some cases a folder entirely outside of the one designated in Download Station. Does Download Station offer any support that would enable such an enhancement on the client?

seansfkelley commented 3 years ago

Yes; if you use the + button (instead of the right-click menu) you can choose a new location for each download. Does that address your usage?

brainchild0 commented 3 years ago

It helps, but the requested use differs in the two following respects:

  1. The target address is acquired directly from the hyperlink, not the text box.
  2. The target directory is persistently configured for the extension instance, in order to organize the top-level structure according to client (e.g. laptop/, desktop/, mobile/).
seansfkelley commented 3 years ago

It sounds your use-case might be handled by #181, depending on how robust that feature ends up being (i.e. if it includes default-destination configuration). I just added a bunch of detail on my thoughts over there, though I don't a timeline for when that feature might exist.

As a workaround for now, you could configure a user with restricted permissions and different default directories for each client, so that it's easy to download straight to the proper top-level folder but you can still customize per-download as necessary.

brainchild0 commented 3 years ago

Yes, I am aware of the workaround, but the use is common enough, I would imagine, to deserve serious consideration as a specific feature.

I added details to #181, so find no need to keep this topic open. Note that some considerations are more general than the indicated strictly by the current title of #181. A different one might be considered, to attract interested parties, as well as to help discovery in searches.