If running eXPee (nooo not brave enough to attempt to taste Vee-star curry flavoured 'oh'-niu-peer-rating system), what are the steps for installing the bee-tar? (hmm where did I leave my pidgin-english translation bookmark) lol

The time rollback is only needed for the first few seconds as BearShare starts up.
That's all the BearStart utility does, sets the date back for a few seconds while
starting BearShare. The installer doesn't care what the date or time is.

The only people who need to manually set the time are the poor victims of Vista.
Presumably, future victims of Windows 7 will have to do that too.

Aaron,

i have Vista and i've done most of what you recommended (setting the date, Admin & XP compatiabilty). So i am no longer gettine the expired error message. Bearshare is giving a new error mgs.:

.\GLibraryWatchDb.cpp (#176) Fatal Error: Unable to load library database.
Reason: Generic Failure
BearShare will automatically attempt to create a new database when it is restarted. Your old database files have been saved for possible diagnosis. Contact technical support for more information.

any ideas?
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Seems to work fine, just had to delete the desktop shortcut to the program & use the utility instead to open the program. Auto transferring of downloads to iTunes seems to work ok.

Does this version of BearShare utilize UPnP?

No, Vinnie decided not to bother with it since the tech was unreliable and effectively deprecated.

i still have problem it wont connect to host and i've instaled beta version that u gave and runned it with BearStart.can any1 help

Try look here :
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...a-network.html
You need to replace old hosts cache (connect.txt) with new copy .

go to program files>bearshare test>db and delete all files that have the word 'library' in them..of course, do this while BS is shut down....

restart BS and it will rehash the files in shares and you will be set....

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i get the same problem, i install bearshare 5.1.0 lite. and change it to compatibility mode SP2 and set up the new db folder. but then i get the issue that it doesn't always want to connect sometimes it will connect for a few mins and then wont find anything and sometimes it wont connect at all. i have set up port forwarding and still doesnt want to connect. what can i do

please help

thanks

the removal of the library files in the db folder only solves the issue of the above described fatal error issue...it has nothing to do with connection issues...

since you are getting connected to some degree, either your ISP is filtering or the henchmen of the RIAA/MPAA are attacking your..the attacks can be mitigated by using PeerGuardian2

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