Manual downloading

This form is reached by right clicking the tray icon for MetSatGetter and selecting ‘Load Manual Getter’.

This is the initial screen

Get Missing Files

Using this is simplicity itself! Click the button and you will see a drop-down list of the tasks that you currently have set up. (Where a task runs more than once in a day only one instance will be shown)

Click on an item in the list and the program will go off and find any files in the set for all download tasks that have been missed. You don’t have to do anything else!

Note: Of course it can only get files that are still available so after a couple of days you may be out of luck.

ONLY the default folder and use of temporary folder apply to this type of download. You cannot send the output to the slide viewer. See below under Manual File Downloads for more details of how the temporary folder works.

Manual File Downloads

Select the Region/Satellite. IODC is Indian Ocean Data Coverage and MSG is Meteosat 0 Degrees. They must be selected in order from top to bottom. (Region/Satellite > Image Type > Product Name > Location)

Now select an image type: (VISPROD is not an EUMetSat image type but is needed to run this. It is the link to visualised products)

Next select the Product Name. Actually for most items this is the image style, black and white or colour. It is only the product name for visualised products.

Finally select the location, or area that you wish to download.

The registry will be queried for this set and if a download folder is found it will be used, but the files are not downloaded just yet. If a download folder is not found the program will ask you to select one, provided the box is unticked.

If you cancel out on that, or the box is ticked as above, then the default folder will be used.

It will query the site and tell you how many files are available, and the times of these are loaded into the two drop down selection boxes.

At this point the ‘Download Files’ button will no longer be greyed out and you can proceed to download the files if you do actually want all of them. You have some options now with regard to downloading.

Files obtained in the ‘Download Files’ section (as opposed to ‘Get Missing’) can be directed to a temporary folder. They can also be sent to the built in slide viewer.

Note that because the temporary folder is in use you will see a greyed out ‘Transfer’ button at the top of the form. If you are not launching the viewer then this will be available once the files have been downloaded.

To download all files just click the button, but if you only want a sub-set of the available files, use the drop down boxes to select the range.

For example if you select a ‘first’ date and time and leave the ‘last’ box blank then the program will download all files from (including) the date and time selected to the latest available file. The download order is always First file to Last file.

The same applies if you select a last but no first date:

All the files from the date/time selected to the first one in the records will be downloaded.
If you get it wrong, and make the first date later than the last date you will see this:

To get a smaller number of files, set both dates. This example just gets 4 files.

Once you are all set up click the ‘Download Files’ button.

You will then be asked to confirm your selection:

As the files download you can see the progress in the status label:

The status will go back to Ready when the download is complete. If there are any problems you will see an error message telling you how many files were skipped.

If you selected a temporary folder then when the download has completed you will see this message and the files will be in the temp folder waiting for transfer.

If you selected the viewer option then the file will be sent straight to the viewer.

A bit of clarification on all that is needed we feel

Operation	Settings and effects of the settings

Get Task Files Missing Collects files that have been missed Only uses tasks that have been set up	No settings affect this operation other than the default folder option.
Download Files You can download any of the file sets Only files currently available on the web can be downloaded	Default folder If ticked the default for the file set will be used if the folder has not been set up If not ticked it will ask Temporary Folder Can download to a temp folder if this is ticked If not ticked goes to the folder set up, or the default for the file set If you are NOT viewing, then the Move file and delete files options have no effect. The files are always moved to their correct folder on clicking 'Transfer' Launch the slide viewer Only works if Temporary folder has been ticked You can move the files after viewing, or delete them