The download list

Every download, finished or not, has a row in the list. The categories on the left choose which rows you see.

The strip under the list says how many downloads it shows and how many are selected, and while downloads run, how many and how fast in all (the tray icon's tip says the same). When the list is empty it says why: nothing in this category or queue, or the column filters hide everything (with Clear all filters).

GDM opens where you left it: the window's place and size, the Categories pane, its open branches and the category or queue you were looking at.

Columns

• Sort: click a column title. Click again to reverse the order, and a third time to go back to the order of addition. View → Arrange files does the same from the menu.
• Move a column: drag its title sideways.
• Resize a column: drag the line between two titles; double-click it to fit the column to its contents.
• Choose columns: right-click any column title and tick the ones you want. Reset columns in the same menu puts them back as they first were.

GDM remembers the columns, their widths and the sort order.

Filters

Each column title has a faint funnel. Click it to filter the list by that column:

• Source, Q and Status offer a few values to tick, such as only Error under Status, or only Not in a queue under Q.
• The other columns take text: type a word, and only rows whose cell contains it stay.

A filtered column's funnel turns blue. To remove every filter, right-click a column title and choose Clear all filters. Filters last until you close GDM.

Categories

The pane on the left has four branches:

• All Downloads — everything, with a node per category below it.
• Unfinished — downloads that aren't complete yet, by category.
• Finished — complete downloads, by category.
• Queues — each queue; select one to see only its downloads.

Each download falls into a category by its file type: General, Compressed, Documents, Music, Programs or Video. Torrents have their own Torrents category. Each category has its own folder, by default inside your Downloads folder (Downloads\Compressed, Downloads\Video and so on; General uses Downloads itself).

Right-click a category for:

• Browse — open its folder in Explorer.
• Properties — change its name, its file types and its folder. General and Torrents only change their folder. A renamed category keeps its folder; a built-in one keeps its name in your language until you rename it.
• Add category — make your own, for example Books for EPUB MOBI. Give it a name, the file types (separated by spaces, * allowed) and a folder.
• Delete — remove a category, your own or a built-in one (not General or Torrents). GDM asks what happens to its downloads: Move its downloads to General, or Remove its downloads from the list (a download that is running moves to General instead). Their files stay where they are either way. From then on, files of its types go to another category that has them, or to General.

To bring the built-in categories back as they came, with their names, file types and folders, use Options → Save to → Restore the built-in categories. Your own categories, General and Torrents stay as they are.

The top branches show how many downloads they hold. View → Hide categories gives the list the whole window.

Dropping links and files

Drag a link from a browser (or a page's text with links in it) onto the list to add it: one link opens Download File Info, several open Link grabber to choose which to add. Drop a .torrent file to add the torrent, or a list of addresses (.txt, .ef2) to import it. The list is outlined while something you can drop is over it. On macOS and Linux, files can be dropped (links from a browser only on Windows).

Right-click the list's blank space for Add new download, Select all, Arrange files, Clear all filters and Delete All Completed.

Opening a download

• Double-click or press Enter on an unfinished download to see its progress window.
• On a finished download, double-click shows its Properties. To open the file instead, right-click any download and choose On Double click → Open.
• Alt+Enter always opens Properties.

The right-click menu has everything you can do with a download: Open, Open with..., Open folder, Move/Rename, Redownload, Resume Download, Stop Download, Refresh download address, Verify checksum..., Remove, Add to queue and Properties.

Properties

File Properties shows a download's type, status, size and folder, its address, your description, the page it came from (Referer), where its server is (country and round trip, as its last run saw them) and a login for the site. Last try and Result tell you how its last attempt went.

• Move — move a finished file to another folder, or choose another folder for a download that hasn't started.
• Address — for an unfinished download, you can paste a new address here. See Resume a broken download.
• Open — open the file.

Move/Rename (Ctrl+M) moves or renames the file of a finished download, or of one that hasn't started yet. With several downloads selected it asks for a folder and moves them all there, each under its own name.

Verify checksum

Many sites publish a checksum next to the download. Right-click the download, choose Verify checksum... and paste it. GDM reads MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 and CRC32. A finished file is checked at once; an unfinished one is checked when its download ends. GDM then says The file matches or The file does NOT match.

Selecting several downloads

• Ctrl+click adds or removes one download.
• Shift+click selects every download up to the one you click.
• Drag on blank space to draw a box around downloads.
• Ctrl+A selects all.
• Shift+Up / Shift+Down makes the selection longer or shorter.

Resume, Stop, Remove and the queue commands then act on all the selected downloads. The other commands need one download. The full list of keys is in Keyboard shortcuts.

Finding a download

Press Ctrl+F (or Downloads → Find), type part of the name and click Find. F3 jumps to the next match. You can also search descriptions and addresses. Step by step in Find a download in a long list.

Typing the start of a name while the list has the focus jumps to the first download whose name starts with it.

Deleting downloads

Select one or more downloads and press Delete, click Delete on the toolbar, or choose File → Remove. GDM asks first:

• Also delete the file from disk — tick it to delete the files too. For an unfinished download, this deletes the part downloaded so far. Leave it unticked to take the downloads off the list and keep the files.
• Don't show this dialog again — GDM stops asking and does what you answered this time. To be asked again, tick Options → General → Confirm before deleting downloads.

Click Yes to delete, or No to keep everything.

Shift+Delete opens the same question with Also delete the file from disk already ticked, for that time only. After a plain Delete, GDM remembers your answer and ticks the box the same way next time.

After deleting, the next download in the list is selected, so you can press Delete again.

A download that is running isn't deleted. Stop it first.

Delete Completed on the toolbar (or Downloads → Delete All Completed) removes every finished download from the list, with the same question.

Next steps

• Watch a download's connections →
• Put downloads in a queue →
• Find a download in a long list →