FreeRapid Downloader - Documentation

User guides

• Official user Guide (Uživatelská příručka) for v0.82 - sorry only in Czech at this time ( )

Screencast

• FreeRapid in 2 minutes - Lukiz's screencast (thanks!)
• Making of FileSend.net - plugin flash demo How to make your own plugin screencast (20MB, 25min)
  Minimal requirements for creating plugin:
  
  • experience with Java IDE and Java (or very good knowledge of PHP),
  • experience with regular expressions,
  • very good knowledge of working HTTP + HTML,
  • experience in using of your brain :-) .

Useful links

• Jak stahovat pohodlně nejen z RapidShare - obsahuje návod pro začátečníky (sorry in Czech only, )
• FreeRapid Downloader a konkurence - srovnání (sorry in Czech only, )
• FreeRapid Downloader (FRD) 中文使用说明图解 - (unofficial tutorial in Chinese) ( )
• How to configure FreeRapid Downloader on Linux - unofficial tutorial for Linux users (in Spanish, )
• Descargas simultaneas (MU) (RS) etc. - another tutorial in Spanish ( )
• 海外アップローダーから効率よく落とせる -
• Automatic Rapidshare Downloads
• 海外アップローダーの激生ファイルを一網打尽！

System requirements

Recommended configuration:

• Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/Linux(core 2.4)* or higher operating system
• Pentium 800MHz processor
• min 1024x768 screen resolution
• 40 MB of free RAM
• 10 MB free disk space
• Java 2 Platform - version at least 1.6 (Java SE 6 Runtime) installed

Application needs at least Sun Java 6.0 to start ( JRE 6 ) - No GCJ or OpenJDK is supported at this time.

Linux Debian like users can use this command to intall Java:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

How to run FreeRapid Downloader

Installation

Unzip files to any of your directory, but beware special characters (like '+' or '!') on the path.
If you make an upgrade to higher version, you can delete previous folder. All user settings are preserved. All user settings are saved in home directories:

MS Windows : c:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\application data\VitySoft\FRD

Linux : ~/.FRD

DO NOT copy new version over older one.

Launching

Windows Simply launch frd.exe or double click on frd.jar

Linux Run command ./frd.sh (as first put correct executable rights on this file )

All platforms Run command java -jar frd.jar

additional parameters for launching are:

java -jar frd.jar [-h -v -d -D<property>=<value>]

options
-h (--help,-?) print this message
-v (--version) print the version information and exit
-d (--debug) print debugging information
-r (--reset) reset user properties to default values
-m (--minim) minimize main window on start
-Dproperty=value Passes properties and values to the application (mostly for debug or testing purposes)
-p (--portable) configuration files will be stored in the 'config' folder, all file paths will be saved relatively to FRD folder (if possible) - useful for USB FLASH drives

If value of option -D is set 'default' (without ') default value will be used.

Example - running application in debug mode:
Windows OS : frd.exe --debug
Linux/MacOS : java -jar frd.jar --debug


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