No images are downloading; all the saved files are just links

[micahwhale1]

No images appear in preview either, the blog is just combed through and the saved downloaded files are only text files with links to the original post. Why is this? Where am I able to find the images, gifs, etc.?

[elipriaulx]

Have you selected "Download URL List"? Double check your settings, and pay attention to the tooltips

[johanneszab]

Turn off the option "download url lists".

See also #349, #310 for more information and a screenshot.

[johanneszab]

We should add this to the list of "things to be improved usability wise". Same with the "download reblogged posts".

[elipriaulx]

I get the impression people are ticking all the boxes because they want everything, and not paying attention to what they actually do. Maybe we could change the behaviour so that instead of "Download URL List" getting a url list instead of content, it does it as well as other content, and add other options where needed to control how that works. ...or maybe move to a enum type arrangement with a combo box for each type of data, eg:

Images: Download Files | URL List | Files & URL List
Videos: ...

What's your thoughts?

[johanneszab]

Yes, sounds great!

We should overhaul the "download reblogged posts" checkbox as well, and maybe add a "re-download/re-set blog" functionality.

I'll make a list of the most misunderstood and requested features over the weekend, and put them into a separate issue or the wiki.

[ghost]

I have this same issue and 'Download URL list' was not selected for the blog in question. It is still only downloading txt files with links to the url and not the actual video/images.

[johanneszab]

You need to delete and re-add the blog if it already downloaded the links to the files, because TumblThree will not re-downloaded already downloaded content.

Just remove the blog, re-add it. You can also mass do this via the settings:

• export your blogs via the settings to a file.
• Open the text file, select all and copy everything to the clipboard.
• TumblThree will re-add all the blogs.

Additionally, TumblThree will skip already downloaded binary files (images, videos) and not re-download them if they are still in your download location.

I've answered this questions already multiple times in the last days. Just take a look here in the open/closed issues. It will be answered there in more detail.

[ghost]

Thanks for your quick response, but just to be clear, before I posted this, I had already deleted the blog in question from the saved location on my PC, I removed the blog from tumblthree. I even restarted tumblthree, I double checked the settings again, logged in then added the blog, added to queue and it is still only downloading as text files with url links. I checked the folder to make sure there were no hidden files; there are none. Before posting this, I did check the posts that had been answered, hence I added on to this post, because I don't see the answer to my particular problem. I keep seeing the answer: uncheck 'Download URL list' and mine was never checked in the first place so not sure what else is going wrong in the download process.

[johanneszab]

You are sure you've had this changed in the Details of the particular blogs, and not within the Settings afterwards? Changing this in the Settings will have no effect at all.

I doubt that this functionality is broken. I've just tested it, no issue.