Phex monitors the network, and it will resume the download when it finds new sources. You can trigger a hidden search on the download or you can search yourself, both will cause phex to collect sources. Additionally Phex keeps sources much longer then Limewire and just raises the retry intervall for every failed attempt.

There are no automated searches every half-hour or so. Thats mainly because this is called bad behaivoir and we already had much troubles with other vendors for doing this a few years ago. Phex wants be a nice player without hurting the network.

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Gotcha. If it works like you say, there's no need for automated searches. I was just going on the experience I've had with Limewire.

When you say "trigger a hidden search", is that the "search" option you get when right-clicking on a download?

Thanks...

Yes... the only difference is that results are collected internally and are not visible. You can reconfigure the search term of the dowload.

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Can you explain "...results are collected internally and are not visible." a bit more? Please. I haven't been able to find anything specific in the help files that speaks to this.

TIA

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There is nothing to explain... results are collected but not visible... finished.

You haven't found anything in the help files since there are no help files.

BTW: the thread is a year old... things have changed too much anyway...

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Okay

Maybe I should have explicitly stated
Help -->
Phex Homepage
Phex Forum

I realize that; however, since the ability to search from within the Download tag is still a viable option, I thought the question valid. I just wanted some more info with respect to the search function from within the Download tab. If the date on the thread bothers you, I start a new thread.

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Sorry... I was a bit stressed while writing
When you click the search button in the download tab. Phex will start a search with the search term configured for the selected download. Matching results are added to the candidate list. But the full search results are not displayed anywhere like for standard searches.
If you manually do a standard search, results that match any of the downloads are also added to the candidates. So it is basically the same logic like for standard search, just that the results are not visible.

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