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Hi everyone, looks like Acquisition and Limewire are out, so I will try File girls suggestion of Frostwire, any positives or negatives here? any comments would be greatly welcome.
Stefan Kopec

Have you try this one called Acquisition Lite or as it's name is now Acqlite and it's free opensource software for Mac... Here is the link to it: http://acqlite.sourceforge.net/ Only thing i don't like about FrostWire is it comes bundled with extra stuff, and it set your home page to ask dot com with out ask your permission to do so!

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I tried Acquisition trial & it would not connect at all including with added gnut.net file. It seemed to use both the LW prefs folder & a file of its own. OMG I HATE trialware !!!! Now I know why I did not follow with Acquisition with a program that's continually pushing you to 'pay' money, that caps your download speeds after 60 seconds. lol Even LW never resorted to that kind of trick. Now i know why the Acquisition developer was so unpopular in the Gnutella community. Well I do know other reasons, no need to publicise them.

I tried Acquilite & it immediately connected to 4 ultrapeers. All of them LW 5.5.8. All search results were junk spam though. Removing ultrapeers definitely helped. Making sure I had either FrostWire, LW 4 or earlier LW 5 ultrapeers connected to me.

Downloads were fine once I got passed the spam in search results.

Acquilite does not appear to use LW's prefs folder but a file of it's own. No idea what connection file it uses. It may be hidden, I will need to explore.
I've opened both of Acquisition & Acquilite separate pref files, they only seem to list the download & shared files & locations & program settings, etc.

Have Acqlite enny filters to filter out spam, like Word filter as LW had where you can filter out extension like wma, wmv, au etc...If not i am afaid it is usless for use on Gnutella Network!

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Ask.com is so incredibly FAIL!! I typed Google into it on one PC and it actually had a text pop up saying the Ask.com was a good search engine as well, so why not use it?

I have tried a few versions of Acquisition Lite in years past. Never tried the Pro version.

If people wanna use Adware bundel Ask fine for me...I don't so i have cleaned out the FrostWire version i use and no bundled stuff is in it...And a another thing is the devs of FrostWire follows the same mistake as LimeWire with Autoupdate for they last version 4.21.1! I never ever gona update from 4.20.9 to 4.21.1...

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Hi File Girl,
Many thanks for ACQ lite, but it appears to have the same problem as Limewire / Acqusition....nothing downloads!! is it me or is anyone having these problems? As mentioned Limewire is out of action so anything that is Limewire based is most likely out of action as well. Any other programmes out there that are not? Any assistance would be most welcome.
Stefan Kopec

My LW works fine, haven't you tried it yet? LW 5.5.10 for me works like a charm in Windows. Posts all over the LW forum sections about using LW 5.5.10 or earlier & how to set them up.

Using LW 5.5.9 Pro on MacOSX 10.6, connected into turbo charged within 20 seconds, downloaded audio file in 80 seconds less than one minute ago just to verify. Sounded great in iTunes too.