#### MarsEdit Help | Solutions By Topic | Q&A

# Customizing the Number of Posts to Download

By default, MarsEdit downloads all posts from your blog when you refresh it. To minimize strain on your server, posts are downloaded in batches of 50 at a time, until all the posts have been downloaded.

Some older blogging systems do not support batched downloads, so MarsEdit can only download a fixed number of posts.

To customize either the total number of posts that are downloaded, or the size of each batch:

1. Select the blog you want to configure from the Blogs list in the main window.
2. Choose the Blog > Edit Settings… menu item.
3. Select the Connection tab within blog settings.
4. Change the Refresh scope setting to affect how many total posts MarsEdit will download.
5. Change the Refresh throttle setting to affect how many posts MarsEdit will download in each batch.

Some systems restrict the number of posts to download, in which case the numbers you enter here may be disregarded.

Note: Unless you are confident that your system can handle larger numbers, be careful with these settings. The larger the number of posts specified to download in each batch, the greater the processing load placed on your blog system's server.