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December 18th, 2005
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 Are you sure it closed down as in exits itself, or are you getting confused with "idle" mode. This is simply LW closing off a single peer connection as it's not needed. LW only needs 2 peers & many other gnutella programs only use 2 peers to connect with (freeing up a peer means it's available to help others to get connected to the gnutella network. Once connected they can find other peers.) So if you're not at your computer searching, you don't need that other peer to connect to to search. LW will still continue to downld. If it stops then it's probably not as a result of idle mode but because you didn't have enough sources to downld from in the 1st place ... they may have gone offline or else, you're swapping connection to one of their slots with others in turn or the connection quality between you & them dropped in quality due to the dynamic net ... such as net traffic, etc. Idle mode works fine, some people claim it causes them to lose their downlds but in my experience, I leave LW running for hrs & days on end. It continues to downld the whole time or most of the time (there's exceptions.) If it has stopped then I do a quick browse of host & bingo the downld(s) starts again (or else they've gone offline.) So for myself, idle mode has never been a problem. However if you're saying your LW crashes during that time then that's an issue. Or if it loses total connection, then we'd need to know more details. Do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is the result True/False?  |
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December 18th, 2005
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| no i think youv misunderstood me what i meant by shutting down is i leave limewire for 5 minutes while its downloading something or in the queue to download something and i come back to find limewire has exited so i have to press limewire and load it up again and wait for my download to resume??? |
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December 18th, 2005
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| That's not good at all. That shouldn't happen. We'll need to get as many details from you as possible to try to ascertain the problem area. Can you give us a total desciption of your set up: 1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98) 2. What firewalls you have? 3. How much ram? 4. Hard Disk space available? 5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) 6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? 7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)? 8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version. 9. Who is your isp provider (Internet Service Provider)? 10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. 11. Do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is the result True/False? 12. Roughly how many files do you share (eg: 10, 50, 100, 500, 1,000 or more. 13. Roughly how many incomplete files do you have? (you can go to incomplete folder & make your system give you how many files are in that folder. |
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| i think its because im trying to download something but im not actually downloading it it says wait host busy so would limewire think no downloads or activty is taking place ill close in that case is there a box that i can un tick that says something automatically close when not activities are taking place for more than 5 mins? |
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December 27th, 2005
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| no its still not working the download of the newer version of limewire pro you gave me still doesnt do what it should it loads then after half an hour to an hour if im lucky it just shuts down even when im downloading which i annoying coz im trying to download some movie that is rare so i have to try and find the connection again and download from one host which is annoyin enough without it cut off every 15 mins i get into the download do you have any idea what my problem is. |
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December 27th, 2005
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| Downlding a rare file can be a little frustrating. Particularly if it's from one of the reknown poor RAZA uploaders who use most of their bandwidth on other networks. I'm not sure what your issue is. Perhaps it might be worth checking your system out at Norbie's site to see if there's any issues. See NorbiesWorld (click on link) Sign up, run the suggested program & post the details & your set up details in a post at his site. It seems to me your issue might be system related. There might be some junk files on your system that needs a cleanout or something. Or perhaps your LW is clashing with a utility you have running. |
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