Neil Pate Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 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? Quote Link to comment
LogMAN Posted September 14, 2015 Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 (edited) Hi Neil, please use this link: http://download.ni.com/evaluation/labview/ekit/other/downloader/You'll find all downloader/installer there. The softlib is no longer available. EDIT: Almost forgot this also works with ftp: ftp://ftp.ni.com/evaluation/labview/ekit/other/downloader/ Edited September 14, 2015 by LogMAN Quote Link to comment
Neil Pate Posted September 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 Yeah I want to try and use FTP to download things like DAQmx without having to go through the NI downloader which I find gets quite choked sometimes. Thanks for the FTP link, that will be useful for LabVIEW related stuff. Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted September 14, 2015 Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment
JKSH Posted September 14, 2015 Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 (edited) 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. Edited September 14, 2015 by JKSH Quote Link to comment
Neil Pate Posted September 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2015 I like to Google for the version I want, and then use a download accelerator on the direct download. Any suggestions for Chrome? Quote Link to comment
JKSH Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Any suggestions for Chrome? Unfortunately not... I use DownThemAll on Firefox. Quote Link to comment
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