Settings

The settings of the desktop app.

Open Settings. Changes only apply when you click Save.

General

Setting	Default	Purpose
Download folder	`~/Downloads`	Root folder
Sort by category	yes	One sub-folder per category
Threads per download	8	Parallel connections (1 to 32)
Simultaneous downloads	1	Size of the active queue (app only)
Retries per segment	5	New attempts before the error
Timeout	30 s	Connection and read
User-Agent	`Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; TurboDL)`	Header sent
File already exists	Rename	Rename to `file (1).ext`, overwrite or skip
Updates	on	Check for a new version at startup
Startup (Windows)	off	Launch TurboDL hidden in the notification area when Windows starts
Notifications	on	Windows notification, with the default sound, when a download finishes or fails

Background

On Windows, closing the window does not quit TurboDL: it keeps running in the notification area and the downloads go on. Click its icon to show the window again; right-click it and choose Quit to exit.

Speed limit

The gauge button of the toolbar limits the total speed of all downloads: no limit, a preset (0.5 to 50 MB/s) or another value. It applies at once to the running downloads and stays after a restart. While a limit is set, the button is shown in amber.

Ignored links

One regular expression per line. A link sent by the browser that matches one of them stays with the browser, which downloads it itself (no red "!" on the extension icon). A field lets you try a link before saving; invalid patterns are listed in red. Example: \.torrent$.

Appearance

Language, light/dark theme, accent color, and the units: sizes in KiB/MiB (1024) or kB/MB (1000), speeds in automatic units or in a fixed unit (kB/s, MB/s, KiB/s, MiB/s, Mbit/s). See Appearance.

Browser

Registration state of the native host for Chrome and Firefox, and a Register again button (useful after moving turbodl).

Note

These settings are stored in config.json. An unreadable file is kept as config.json.bak and the default values are used.