Hmmm, Sorry LOTR but I will have to disagree there...
The link opened LW automatically, it worked for me just a few days ago and I was linked to the sources of that file straight away and downloaded the movie...

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My apologies then. Many of those magnet links are left by "other" networks.

I use the one for Gnutella...
But I will agree that it's not 100% successful all the time as you mentioned that it could be an old link....
I usually only use this feature if I cant find the file through LW itself and I keep getting fake results....

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Yep even the gnutella ones ... in my experience anyway ... they will open LW, but LW doesn't know what the file is & has a ? beside file-type & simply goes to need more sources. But glad to hear they do sometimes work.

It sounds to me like you may have a mac. Perhaps not. But google Overpeer & you'll get an idea about where those search results come from. They only target copyright files, re: files that won't connect. In your search results, you may find 100 for one result, the next on the list may have 99, etc. Those ones are fake! So we normally recommend choosing those with say 10-20 sources under the # column of the search results. This is where Bitzi can come in handy to see if they really are genuine files.

Here's a link which mentions Overpeer: http://www.betanews.com/article/P2P_...ion/1134249644

Yes, for all files you attempt to download, it will create a file within the incomplete folder. Occasionally it's wise to do this: Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue!; ie: remove those files from the download window & also from the incomplete folder.

Nope, not using a mac.. soon though! I'm pretty sick of Microsoft, so when Leopard's released I'm going to switch over. Yeah, I know the way they do that, pretty annoying, but I'm usually searching for files that don't attract such attention over copyright issues, so I guess I was just shocked by the scale of the problem. Do the 0 byte files in the incomplete folder add to the high number of sources for these downloads? If so (or even just for keeping the folder clean) Limewire should delete any 0 byte files on cancellation. There not doing any good for anyone there..
One thing I've noticed is that these files are usually hosted on systems with "browse host" disabled, or when browsed the error "couldn't browse host" pops up, so armed with this information for random spot checks, I'm going to go on the biggest careless blocking spree ever!

Expect to next see me under a thread named "No search results.. WHY?! " haha

lol Yes I agree, the incompletes should be removed automatically if you deliberately cancel downloads. But at least it does give the option of recontinuing the downld if you made a mistake or changed your mind. The incompletes don't have any relationship with the sources of your search results. But having many incompletes will make LW take longer to startup, longer to settle down, & use up more computer resources such as ram & virtual memory.