Dear William,

thanks very much for your quick and profound response.

The file inclusion/exclusion syntax is now clear to me. However the proxy
settings are still causing problems. My ssettings are identical to those of
the Explorer, but still the mistake occurs. Now I thought maybe I am still
causing some exclusion problems, this is why I then said, well, lets download
everytthing of the page just as a test. When staring the tool it seemed it is
working but it then gave again a failure message, which is:

HTTrack3.43-4+htsswf+htsjava launched on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:26:22 at
<http://www.ted.com> -* +*.mp4 +*.htm*
(winhttrack -qi%e3C2%Ps2u1%s%uN0%I0p3DaK0H0%kf2A25000%f0#f -F "Mozilla/4.5
(compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98)" -%F "<!-- Mirrored from %s%s by
HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2008], %s -->" -%l "en, en, *"
<http://www.ted.com> -O1 D:\TEMP\Httrack\TedTalks01 -* +*.mp4 +*.htm* )
Information, Warnings and Errors reported for this mirror:
note: the hts-log.txt file, and hts-cache folder, may contain sensitive
information,
 such as username/password authentication for websites mirrored in this
project
 do not share these files/folders if you want these information to remain
private
17:26:22 Info:  Note: due to www.ted.com remote robots.txt rules, links
begining with these path will be forbidden: /index.php/profiles/browse (see in
the options to disable this)
17:26:24 Warning:  File not parsed, looks like binary: www.ted.com/
17:26:24 Error:  "Open error when decompressing" (-1) at link www.ted.com/
(from primary/primary)
17:26:24 Info:  No data seems to have been transfered during this session! :
restoring previous one!

Sorry for boterhing you again, but it would be grert to get some help here.

Ragards and great tool, I used it already in the past!!

Michael