Improvements to Downloads

[acoyne]

It’s handy to be able to just option-click on a link to download it to, er, Downloads. And yet I don’t tend to used it very much, compared to the Capture and Add to DT contextual menu commands. Two things would improve it:

1. if the resulting files bore their actual names, rather than the strange truncation of their url they are current assigned. At the least, it would be nice it there were a smart rule to do this automatically as each page lands, but I don’t seem to be able to manage it — I’ve tried using the “Rename … To Web Page Title” script, but I can’t seem to make it work except “On Demand.”
2. if there were an option to download in clutter-free format.

[cgrunenberg]

@acoyne

if the resulting files bore their actual names, rather than the strange truncation of their url they are current assigned. At the least, it would be nice it there were a smart rule to do this automatically as each page lands, but I don’t seem to be able to manage it — I’ve tried using the “Rename … To Web Page Title” script, but I can’t seem to make it work except “On Demand.”

The download manager should retain the filenames, not necessarily the visible title of web pages. Could you post an example link?

[acoyne]

They look like this:

So yeah, I guess it’s the file name, but I’d prefer it was the title of the web page, the same as when you clip (rather than download) an article. Small thing, I know: being able to download in clutter-free format would be a bigger deal.