NI Downloader should download all the relevant files in one operation

[heel]

For download of updates from ni.com such as the device drivers (http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/3145/lang/en/rating/1) NI recommends to use the NI Downloader.

First suggestion: Fine, but the Download tool should download all the relevant files in one operation.

Not as of now where you have to download one NI Download program for each of the (here two) "DVD's" and execute each of them to get both install images downloaded. It is error prone, tedious and requires additional installation instructions.

Second suggestion: Give the user an option to keep the download in one big file. I think it is very few users who actually need the files to fit on a space restricting storage medium. As a note I see from the latest LV2012 downloads that some of the installation distribution files are more than 8GB. 8GB would easily hold the device drivers (as of 2012) so there is actually no need in this particular case to span two media.

[Mads]

And/or provide the Platform DVDs for download. There you get everything. This will also make life easier for those of us who use the Volume License Manager because we can make our VLM installer in one go without having to wait for the DVDs to arrive by mail.

[labview4steve]

How about a simple Note.... or reminder of even better an automatic check that checks the drive type and how much space is available and then chooses the appropriate file sizeetc.. Many people save stuff on external USB drives and most of these are still default of fat32 which only holds a 4gb file... so it will get to 4gb and cause an error... Although C drives are most likely to be NTFS or something else depening on what operating system they are using.