Clear, not history but markers in the "Quality" column
 

Okay, I can find plenty of threads that tell me how to clear the search history, which is all well and good (I can find a button for myself). But if I search for something and a result that I've downloaded in the past comes up, I always get the green tick thing in the "Quality" column, regardless of whether I actually still have the files or not.

I've cleared my cookies, I've run CCleaner, I've searched pretty much every option on the programme itself that I can find and it's still happening.

Can anyone help?

what does cookies have to do with anything?

the green check mark means your sharing have the same file in either 1) your incompletes or 2) your shared/saved directory.

Nope. Some files show up like that, and they're not on my harddisk at all, let alone in those folders.

On windows have you gone to start/search/files and folders and done a search for the files in question. they may still be on your hard drive. If they do not show up there. With LimeWire running go to library and click on incomplete a page with file names showing up in red should appear look for files in question in there and delete them if they are there.

Yup, did both of those more than once before posting here.

I remember one of the LW programmers posting about this topic. I am also a little confused about it. Sometimes it shows the green tick & sometimes not (after moving out of the downld folder.) Personally I believe it's good that it shows you already have downlded that file. You might be able to search the forum & find SBerlin's post about the topic.

One thing that I have noticed on the newest version of LimeWire 4.9.22 When I do a search for the word LimeWire it shows that I have several different versions of LW via the green tick. Which I do the only thing is these files are not in my shared folder and have never been shared they are on a completely different drive that has never been shared. But somehow LimeWire is detecting them which tells me LW is going places it is not Sposato. But I do not thing it is intentional. Anyway there may be a bug but I really do not know.

hmm, well to tell you the truth, there are still ALOT of gui bugs lingering around. and the quality type icons still appear to have that bug (i havent seen a changelog or cvs commit that fixes this bug yet).

this is not a bug. this is the new update mechanism to offload the bandwidth of new releases. this outsources the limewire program to the gnutella network to offload the bandwith distrubution of LW.

basically, whenever you update your limewire through internally through LW and the gnet, it downloads the installer from the gnet itself so LW can save bandwidth costs (it also helps the develpment cost of distribution if LW LLC ever did get shutdown.)

once you update LW internally, then it automatically shares this file out to other people too. the installer is located in you .NetworkShare directory and is at the same parent directory level as your .limewire pref dir.

i want to stress the fact that sharing these updates are VERY important to the distribution costs of LimeWire. and this update mechanism could keep the development of LW moving forward even if the LW company were ever shutdown. since it relies on the gnet to download the updates, it would be nearly impossible to shutdown development and distribution.

btw, the updates are securely verified over the network and locally during the process to be sure noone tries to sabotage the update mechanism.

Sound like a good Idea to me. So it is reading the files in C:/Program Files/Limewire and that is why the last few installs it hasn't removed the previous version from the file ?