Hi vegxr,

LOTR is on holidays at the moment

Open Bearshare, click on Help & see whether there's an 'about bearshare' option or something like that. Then you should be able to see which version you're using.

Sounds to me like you're using one of the newer, paid versions of BS (which we don't offer support for since they don't use the Gnutella network).

LOTR gives an explanation here (click on link): I paid and now "LICENSE REQUIRED"! Help!

Hey Birdy, have found ,about bearshare. got a few numbers 10.0.0.117589 Copyright (c)2005-2011 Musiclab,LLC. Hope this helps, regards Andrew

Then it's one of the MusicLab versions that LOTR referred to in the link in post #6.
Sorry, but we don't offer support for those versions, since they don't use the Gnutella network.

Most BS users here prefer to use the version mentioned here: BearShare has been sabotaged.

However, if you want to keep using the version that you have, see whether there's a 'help' or 'support' link on the main page of your BS.

Good luck