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Neil Pate

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Hi All,

 

I am trying to get a new PC back up to a usable state (installing software etc). Am having some trouble accessing the NI.com FTP site. Using filezilla I can access ftp.ni.com with no problems, but cannot get find support/softlib where the juicy bits get downloaded from.

 

As I said this is a new PC so I had to create the FTP connection from memory, have I done something stupid like not put the right authentication or something?

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I was resistant to the NI Downloader at first.  Why do I need another application doing who knows what?  There are several downloaders (I'm looking at you CNET) that download crapware that you need to make sure you don't install and I guess I thought it would be like that.

 

But the NI ones seem to work well, resume has never been an issue, and I've noticed it resumes after a restart too.  But of course if you need to use FTP they won't work.

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Yeah I want to try and use FTP to download things like DAQmx without having to go through the NI downloader

 

NI's website provides a direct download too, bypassing the NI Downloader. For example, go to http://www.ni.com/download/ni-daqmx-15.0.1/5353/en/ and look for "Standard Download". Funnily enough, it links to "support/softlib" via HTTP: http://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/multifunction_daq/nidaqmx/15.0.1/NIDAQ1501f3.exe

 

I like to Google for the version I want, and then use a download accelerator on the direct download.

 

Google's search operators make it easy to find things (no need navigate the folder hierarchy). For example, type "site:ni.com/download DAQmx" or "site:ni.com/download DAQmx 15" into Google and see what you get.

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