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LoadScout grabs only what you need from remote archives
by Lee Mathews Jan 16th 2009 at 1:30PM
One thing that bothers me about some manufacturers is the way they provide drivers on their website. Why should I have to suffer through a sluggish 70mb download when all I want is the 300k in the drivers\winxp folder?
LoadScout is one possible solution to that problem. Paste the link to your file, and LoadScout will connect and display its contents. Highlight what you need, click the extract button, and choose a local destination directory. If I'd found LoadScout before fighting with Acer's server for an hour and a half yesterday, I could have saved myself a lot of grief.
Zip and rar archives are supported, and you can also download and play segments of remote .avi and .mp3 files.
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LoadScout is one possible solution to that problem. Paste the link to your file, and LoadScout will connect and display its contents. Highlight what you need, click the extract button, and choose a local destination directory. If I'd found LoadScout before fighting with Acer's server for an hour and a half yesterday, I could have saved myself a lot of grief.
Zip and rar archives are supported, and you can also download and play segments of remote .avi and .mp3 files.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James said 4:54PM on 1-16-2009
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How the hell does this work? I mean, that's awesome, but... wow.
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Nakodari said 4:06AM on 1-17-2009
I tested it in details and wrote two posts on it,
Here, http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-browse-and-extract-individual-files-from-zip-or-rar-archive-without-downloading-them/
and here, http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-preview-a-small-portion-of-any-mp3-or-avi-video-file-before-downloading-it/
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Steve Yu said 8:45PM on 1-18-2009
Wow, this is a must have application. I came across a firefox plugin that allows us to view the content of rar and zip archive file before downloading them. But this one is even better!
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