DownloadComment - Track Safari download URLs
Jan 03, '05 02:36:00PM
Contributed by: robg
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[Score: 10 out of 10]
A quick and simple PotW this week (got to start slowly and pace myself into this new year, right?). I download a lot of apps and documents from a lot of places -- VersionTracker, MacUpdate, links from articles on news sites, entries on various forums, etc. I don't always have time to look at things right when I download them, so my Downloads folder rapidly fills up. At some point in the future, I'll look at something in the folder with a useful name like "om_en_7.54u1.dmg" and wonder 'What the heck is that, and where did I get that?'
If I don't clear my Download window in Safari, I can find out by control-clicking on the like-named object and choosing "Copy Address." But since I download so much, I clear out the list with regularity, so then I'm forced to mount the disk image, open it, and then hopefully see something that reveals what it is I've now mounted (Opera, in this example). Enter DownloadComment, from Ecamm Network. This free Safari plug-in saves the address of the download in the Finder's Comments box, making it a quick Get Info away -- just highlight the file in the Finder, hit Command-I, and check the Comments section for the download URL. That's usually enough to remind me of what's behind the cryptic name. DownloadComment installs in your global Library -> InputManagers folder, and includes a simple uninstaller in case you tire of its behavior. It doesn't get much easier than that.
A simple little thing, but quite handy if you download tons and tons of stuff.
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