What Tuhi can do for you

Tuhi can do some things for you as well as answer questions: download a link to the place you name, and stop, pause, carry on or cancel what's running when you ask in your own words. She follows each job to the end rather than stopping at "started", and anything that would throw work away is asked first.

Downloading a link

Paste a link into the Ask box and say where it should go — "download this to my fast drive", to your Desktop, to a folder, or to a drive by name. Without a place, it goes to your Downloads folder.

%% caption: How Tuhi handles a download
flowchart TD
  A[You paste a link and say where] --> B{What is at the link?}
  B -->|A file| C[Check its size against the free space]
  B -->|A download page| D[Find the real file the page offers] --> C
  B -->|Nothing to download| E[Say so plainly - nothing is saved]
  C --> F{Does it fit?}
  F -->|Yes| G{Already downloading or already there?}
  F -->|No| H[Ask where instead - a button per drive with room] --> G
  G -->|No| I[Download with a live progress card]
  G -->|Yes| J[Follow, resume, move or show it - never download twice]
  I --> K[Done - with Show in Finder]

• She reads the link first. A file is downloaded, following any redirects. A download page — even one that starts its download with a script — is read, and the real file it offers is downloaded instead of the page. She tells you which file and which site. A dead link, a refused download or a page with no file gets a plain answer, and nothing is saved.
• She checks it fits. If the file is bigger than the free space where it's going, she asks where instead, with a button for each drive that has room.
• She never downloads the same thing twice. A download already going is followed, or resumed if it stopped. One going somewhere else can be moved here, keeping its progress. One that failed earlier carries on from where it stopped, or starts fresh if you prefer. A file that's already there is shown to you — or replaced, with the old one going to the Trash.
• She sees it through. A live progress card sits under her reply. A dropped connection is retried by itself. If the drive runs out of room, she offers to carry on on a drive that has room, keeping what's already downloaded. When it's finished she tells you, with Show in Finder.

Cancel really cancels: the download stops, what was downloaded so far is deleted, and it leaves the list. Downloads also appear in Data Transfers.

Stopping, pausing, carrying on and cancelling

Ask in your own words — "pause the download", "stop the backup", "carry on with the move", "cancel that transfer" — and Tuhi does it for the one you mean.

If more than one thing matches what you asked, Tuhi asks which, with a button for each, rather than picking one. You can click a button or type your answer — "the first one", "yes", or the name.

What she won't do

Tuhi doesn't move, clean or delete your files by herself. Anything like that goes through its own screen and confirmation, and a cancel that would throw work away always needs your yes. Everything she understands and does stays on your Mac — see Tuhi runs on your Mac.

See also: Asking Tuhi a question · Where Tuhi's answers come from · Meet Tuhi