I've got a feature request. How about we make the "quality" icons actually accurately reflect reality for version 4.9?

Using 4.8.1, I notice all of the following:

Green checked items I don't already have (no overwrite prompt if I go to download it)
Starred items I do (there *is* an overwrite prompt if I go to download it)
Torn paper items I have (ditto)
Folder icon items I already have (ditto)

The first is the most pernicious for collecting files -- it means you can't go by the icons and mass-select everything not checked to download and add everything you don't already have. You have to select the checked items too, and that invariably means a large number of overwrite prompts to respond "no" to. Of course, nobody seems to have thought it worthwhile having "no to all" on that dialog... (or "yes to all" for that matter).

On a related note, how about a way to retry corrupt files other than selecting it, hitting "stop", repeating the search that originally found the item, and praying that it is found again? They don't "resume", which doesn't make too much sense -- it should try to get the file again (if necessary, from scratch) from the known sources if you select a "File Corrupt" entry and hit the resume button. Instead, that button is greyed. Attempting to resume it from the Incomplete folder on the Library tab results in it searching for a zero length file of the same name, failing to find it, and then you're left with an entry in your download list "awaiting sources" that doesn't work properly (e.g., select it and hit "resume" and nothing happens. It doesn't go to "connecting..." or "queued" or anything else. If you set the table to sort by status and to auto-sort, then do it, it doesn't even move -- it should end up at the bottom of the "awaiting sources" list even if it does so too fast for the eye to see, but in fact it does nothing...and it shouldn't even go too fast for the eye to see. It takes a full 60 seconds to be sure a TCP connection has failed. It shouldn't give up any sooner than that, and anyway should respect the timeout interval set in the computer's network stack configuration and not use its own timeout interval.)

The overwrite prompt only appears if you're downloading a file and you already have a file that has the same name. It doesn't necessarily mean you "have the same file", it just means you have a file named that. Two files can be the same and have different names, in which case the green check mark will appear, but LimeWire won't warn you that you're going to overwrite an existing file.

If you're not seeing stars on items that have the same name as something in your saved directory, it may be because there's a small delay in updating what LimeWire knows as "saved". For the most part, it should be right, though. Is this a very common occurance?

Torn paper just means you have an incomplete download which matches that file. I think the checkmark (saved) takes priority over that, though. Same thing with downloading (except it means you have an active download).

So you're saying the green check can appear if you have a file of a different name, with the same content? It compares against all the files in the download directory?

I'd rather see the green checkmark used for "same hash" --where the content is the same but the name might differ.

It is handy to know that a file has the same name--how about a yellow check for that?

Yellow checks would only turn green once the hash is retrieved from the host (i.e, no need to retrieve the hash unless the user explicity asked for a check by initiating a download).

Then a "rename" dialog would be more useful than the "overwrite" one.

How come when i connect to more peers than ultrapeers my search results are much greater???

Could we PLEASE get a save as/download as right click option? i would like to beable to rename files when i download them.

Save As will be in the next version.

It would be nice to be able to deactivate an active download without entirely killing it (unless this is what kill download means). Highlighting the active download doesn't seem to activate the UP/DOWN arrows, so I presume it's not possible to nudge an active one to somewhere down the list amongst the pending 200+ queued uploads.

Thanks,
jroack

There is a pause button on downloads which can temporarily stop an active download, or an inactive one from becoming active. If you want to make an inactive one become active quicker, right-click on the column headers and choose the 'Priority' column (and sort by it), then highlight it and click the up arrow a bunch of times to move it closer to the top.

instead of the user selecting their connection speed, a quick test ( i know, i know, bandwidth issues for server will arise) to estimate users upload speed then assign a relevent section for them, such as dialup, cable/dsl, t1, or t3

and btw, t3+ seems kinda slow for dl speeds, 400 is 100%? my dsl goes 800
so i think this is a major issue to all the wannabe t3ers out there

another sug;
add oc connections :P
i can run limewire at my school on our OC3 line it it pwns
155Mbps eats that T3+ alive

I searched and haven't seen this one yet.
My request is when a file says Need more sources, the program automatically finds more sources every so often.

I must add that I've used Kazza and imesh, and I prefer limwire. Thanks guys!

I would like to eliminate some extensions (like wmv) in a filter like the keyword filter.

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Chris Robertson

c_robertson as well as adding .wmv into your filter keywords, you can also remove it from the shared extensions under Tools>Options>Sharing. OR mac osx that's LW prefs>Sharing.

sometimes i like to 'leave the taps open' during an afternoon, and watch the monitor to see what's going out -- and i imagine happy users finding long lost rare songs.

but then i'd like to hear the songs as they go out. thus -- a playlist in itunes every time an outgoing song is 100% completed.

but since there is already a 'Limewire' playlist in itunes, perhaps it could go into two playlists:

iTunes:
- Limewire - In
- Limewire - Out


(i've also posted this as a thread, or should it be here under 'new feature requests...?)

Please add an option to NOT automatically popup discription boxes (tips) when brosing through song lists. I like to highlight certain entries, but the boxes make it impossible to see what I'm doing, so I find them more disruptive than helpful.

thanks,
/d

To avoid furter contamination of downloads like viruses and spyware, i hope an anti-virus software like norton anti-virus or mcafee can be present as an option. People can turn it off to get better dwonload speeds if they want, but with risks. If not, they have the ability to use their own anti-virus software to scan while downloading?


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In-built Video Player(with codecs).

In-built java chatroom.

Ability to restrict sharing with an individual via IP address.

Media player can go into an individual window to edit when at other programs.

Maybe instead of only Limewire Basic and Pro, have
Bronze Basic, Silver Average, Gold Intermediate, Platinium Pro. Each have each different features. Platinum has most?