You may, but Exploder scales very poorly to directories containing tens of thousands of files. So does the image previewer -- somehow, it seems to care how many other files are in the directory with the one you're previewing, since the time it spends "generating preview..." seems to grow linearly in the number of files in that directory(!).

A lot of other Explorer stuff is either linear in the size of some directory when it should be constant, or is quadratic when it should be n log n. :P

Obviously, Microsoft's so-called "engineers" wouldn't know a decent algorithm if my 20lb, 1500 page computer algorithm bible fell on their noggins from the top of the Empire State Building. Just about everything they did in Explorer I could do 10 times better, and for all that I can't find a *@&! job to save my life. :P

Hi! I've just wondering a feature. I think the program should probe your upload bandwith, then automatically set it to an optimal value, not let the user do it himself. This would get rid of those who set it to minimum while they can upload much more. And perhaps that anti-freeloader should be mandatory, perhaps its minimum should be 100 files, making leeching more difficult.

sashee

Thats why I made the skin creator :) its a lot easyer to do it that way then raw :)

That's certainly a nice thought, but the way LW's options are set up it wouldn't work. Me for example, I'm at bottom level of broadband (256/64) I can't set my speed as adsl b/c my speeds aren't even within that scope so I have to choose Modem setting. If I allow 100% upld I can't browse 'at all'! I have to limit it back one or 2 KB/s so I can at least browse at the same time. This is an issue for many people. Better would be more speed options IMHO.

Slow speeds are often a result of other p2p clients, most notable Shareaza (Raza) which generally only offers 1 KB/s to share. Could almost put them in the "leech" classification. Most I've achieved from Raza was 3 KB/s.

I think the biggest problem with Limewire(and other gnutella clinets ofcourse) that it only makes people to dhare more files, not to upload more. I think gnutella needs anti-leech, so the more you upload-> more you download. I can share 1000s of files, but if I set my upload to the minimum, only 1 or 2 files will I only really upload, so I dont need to share the others. Sophisticated anti-leech might be usefull for the global network.

sashee

I just thought of something that would be REALLY useful least for me. Put a refresh button on each search so to research the hosts ya dont gotta type in another entire search ya can just press refresh :)

Feature: "undo" option for accidentally clicking "clear incomplete" or "stop" and the like.

Bug fix: downloads from people using current version of Limewire sometimes stall -- the download slows down, then stops at 0 kb/s; usually without even getting one more percentage point between beginning to slow down and stopping. Why does Limewire do this? I assume my own copy does this to people downloading from me as well, and I'd much rather it didn't.

Bug fix: Limewire (some versions) seems to "play possum" sometimes. When this occurs, it occurs consistently with specific hosts, and it occurs when that host has a large number of files one wants and one downloads five of them. All the rest fail and the host is apparently offline, but it will seem to come online again later and you can get exactly 5 files before it disappears again. This can't be coincidence, so it's not really going offline; merely pretending to. (Shareaza is also notorious for playing possum, and indeed, it's much worse than LW for it; but there's nothing LW's developers can do about Shareaza. They can do plenty about Limewire though.)

Bug fix: "browse host" isn't always greyed for unbrowseable hosts, resulting in an error message.

Bug fix: "chat with host" still isn't always greyed for unchattable hosts.

Bug fix: Chat failure doesn't produce an error message, and chat success doesn't always produce a window right away. The window also sometimes appears behind other windows, and goes unnoticed for ages. As a result, there is no immediate feedback and sometimes no feedback at all as a result of a chat attempt.

Bug fix: I still get a high percentage of corrupt files that don't actually get detected as corrupt by Limewire, but only when I attempt to use the file and find that it's damaged, truncated, or has been substituted with something else entirely by whatever host sent the file. The percentage can be made nearly zero with intelligent hashing, and with hashes included in search results, rather than depending on the host sending the file to be honest about the hash. Hosts substituting a different file currently substitute a different hash as well, and Limewire doesn't notice anything is amiss and that the file you're downloading isn't the one the search result was supposed to produce.

Feature/bug fix: "block host" on a grouped search result should block all of the hosts that returned the bogus result. This would make it so I could actually add all of the iPod spammer's myriad IP addresses to the list before the year 2300, rather than after. (How many does that company have, anyway? I expect a commercial entity to have a single netblock, or a handful, and static IPs; this one seems to have over three dozen -- the iPod spammer has hosts in 4.*, 12.*, 18.*, 24.*, 59.*, 60.*, 61.*, 62.*, 63.*, 64.*, 65.*,66.*, 67.*, 68.*, 69.*, 70.*, 71.*, 80.*, 81.*, 82.*, 83.*, 84.*, 128.*, 130.*, 131.*, 133.*, 134.*, 136.*, 138.*, 139.*, 141.*, 142.*, 144.*, 149.*, 150.*, 151.*, 152.*, 154.*, 155.*, 156.*, 162.*, 163.*, 165.*, 166.*, 168.*, 172.*, 192.*, 195.*, 198.*, 200.*, 201.*, 202.*, 203.*, 204.*, 205.*, 206.*, 207.*, 208.*, 209.*, 211.*, 212.*, 213.*, 216.*, 217.*, 218.*, 219.*, and 220.*. This kind of diversity is amazing -- it suggests that rather than buy a net block, the corporation responsible has set up lots of small servers in widely varying geographic areas, each with its own internet service provider. That's a lot of sites as well as a lot of physical computers and a lot of separate network accounts. Expensive. I thought spamming was not a viable business model unless you could keep expenses to nearly zero, because of the very low click-through rate? How long before this joker goes out of business at the rate he must be burning cash just to keep up with all the bills? I mean, assuming each site has a cheap dialup connection, and that there's only one site for each top-level IP block he uses, that's 67 separate ISPs (count the IP blocks above!) times twenty bucks a month is ... a couple thousand bucks a month, or about $25000/year. Assuming the company responsible has only one employee per site with a $25000/year salary, that's $25000x68 or almost 2 million dollars a year expenses. If there's fewer employees, then the travel costs for whoever has to jump around from site to site (and the IPs indicate they're widely dispersed geographically) will more than make up for the savings in salaries. How does any spammer make $2 million plus a year? I don't see how, unless the spamming operation is a sideline on some other business that already has sites and internet servers in a huge variety of locations, so that the machines, network connections, and on-site staff are sunk costs from the point of view of the spamming operation. That suggests that it's a big company, which makes me wonder, given what it's pushing, whether it's Apple. But they couldn't survive the bad PR if they got caught, surely? The only other possibility is if the spamming is coming from a virus, but a virus has a short lifetime before everyone's up to date and it gets eradicated, and this has been going on for a year or more.

im in the 66.*.*.* range

A significant fraction of people are in one of those ranges somewhere. They happen to be a customer of an ISP that has the spammer as another customer.

"Minimize to tray" button
 

I think a useful feature would be a "minimize to tray" button next to the standard minimize, maximize, and close buttons. I know there's a similar feature in the options dialog, but it would be a lot nicer to have it on the main screen. I would like the ability to either close the main window and still continue download, or just completely close; instead of hitting close, and then close again on the tray.

A new feature that I think is very pointless is the "Shutting down limewire" dialog that shows up when you close. That's very annoying. I don't know who's decision it was to add that, but it was a poor one. I don't need to be reminded that an application is shutting down, especially when I triggered the shutdown. I don't care if the application has to run for a few moments to run ending processes after I close it, but it would be better if it could run in the background, hidden.

I thought hitting the X button minimizes it to tray anyways why not just use that?

No, I'm talking about having ONE button for minimizing to tray, and ONE button to immediately exit limewire. If you hit the X button now, it will go to the tray, and then you have to right click on the icon and hit close. It's just a lot easier and more convienient to use a single mouse click for each operation, instead of several clicks like it is now.

Yeah I guess that would be a lil bit logical because having to right click it every time is kinda annoying. and if ya forget the program eats up a lot of ram.

thats with every ISP guy, you posted an awfull LOT of IP's, some of which are dialup IP's of lots of different ISP', for example, 172.* is a class b IP range that most AOL customers have, and you have blacklisted it. who WOULD spam with dialup? its an extremely slow service. im not saying people dont do, as i am sure there are, but its not as common as it is with a dynamic ip dsl service. since transfering with dsl is much more quick than it is 56k standard dialup.

but as many ip ranges as you specified, you will be blocking alot of people, you might as well just block *.*.*.* since thats what it seems as tho your trying to do. its very ambiguous.

In another thread someone said the spammer is a major telecommunications company. If that's the case it explains the diversity of IP addresses generating bogus search results with ipod spam.

I've got a feature request. How about we make the "quality" icons actually accurately reflect reality for version 4.9?

Using 4.8.1, I notice all of the following:

Green checked items I don't already have (no overwrite prompt if I go to download it)
Starred items I do (there *is* an overwrite prompt if I go to download it)
Torn paper items I have (ditto)
Folder icon items I already have (ditto)

The first is the most pernicious for collecting files -- it means you can't go by the icons and mass-select everything not checked to download and add everything you don't already have. You have to select the checked items too, and that invariably means a large number of overwrite prompts to respond "no" to. Of course, nobody seems to have thought it worthwhile having "no to all" on that dialog... (or "yes to all" for that matter).

On a related note, how about a way to retry corrupt files other than selecting it, hitting "stop", repeating the search that originally found the item, and praying that it is found again? They don't "resume", which doesn't make too much sense -- it should try to get the file again (if necessary, from scratch) from the known sources if you select a "File Corrupt" entry and hit the resume button. Instead, that button is greyed. Attempting to resume it from the Incomplete folder on the Library tab results in it searching for a zero length file of the same name, failing to find it, and then you're left with an entry in your download list "awaiting sources" that doesn't work properly (e.g., select it and hit "resume" and nothing happens. It doesn't go to "connecting..." or "queued" or anything else. If you set the table to sort by status and to auto-sort, then do it, it doesn't even move -- it should end up at the bottom of the "awaiting sources" list even if it does so too fast for the eye to see, but in fact it does nothing...and it shouldn't even go too fast for the eye to see. It takes a full 60 seconds to be sure a TCP connection has failed. It shouldn't give up any sooner than that, and anyway should respect the timeout interval set in the computer's network stack configuration and not use its own timeout interval.)

The overwrite prompt only appears if you're downloading a file and you already have a file that has the same name. It doesn't necessarily mean you "have the same file", it just means you have a file named that. Two files can be the same and have different names, in which case the green check mark will appear, but LimeWire won't warn you that you're going to overwrite an existing file.

If you're not seeing stars on items that have the same name as something in your saved directory, it may be because there's a small delay in updating what LimeWire knows as "saved". For the most part, it should be right, though. Is this a very common occurance?

Torn paper just means you have an incomplete download which matches that file. I think the checkmark (saved) takes priority over that, though. Same thing with downloading (except it means you have an active download).

So you're saying the green check can appear if you have a file of a different name, with the same content? It compares against all the files in the download directory?

I'd rather see the green checkmark used for "same hash" --where the content is the same but the name might differ.

It is handy to know that a file has the same name--how about a yellow check for that?

Yellow checks would only turn green once the hash is retrieved from the host (i.e, no need to retrieve the hash unless the user explicity asked for a check by initiating a download).

Then a "rename" dialog would be more useful than the "overwrite" one.

How come when i connect to more peers than ultrapeers my search results are much greater???

Could we PLEASE get a save as/download as right click option? i would like to beable to rename files when i download them.

Save As will be in the next version.

Deactivate Active Download
 

It would be nice to be able to deactivate an active download without entirely killing it (unless this is what kill download means). Highlighting the active download doesn't seem to activate the UP/DOWN arrows, so I presume it's not possible to nudge an active one to somewhere down the list amongst the pending 200+ queued uploads.

Thanks,
jroack
:confused: :D :(

There is a pause button on downloads which can temporarily stop an active download, or an inactive one from becoming active. If you want to make an inactive one become active quicker, right-click on the column headers and choose the 'Priority' column (and sort by it), then highlight it and click the up arrow a bunch of times to move it closer to the top.

instead of the user selecting their connection speed, a quick test ( i know, i know, bandwidth issues for server will arise) to estimate users upload speed then assign a relevent section for them, such as dialup, cable/dsl, t1, or t3

and btw, t3+ seems kinda slow for dl speeds, 400 is 100%? my dsl goes 800
so i think this is a major issue to all the wannabe t3ers out there

another sug;
add oc connections :P
i can run limewire at my school on our OC3 line it it pwns :D
155Mbps eats that T3+ alive

Need more sources
 

I searched and haven't seen this one yet.
My request is when a file says Need more sources, the program automatically finds more sources every so often.

I must add that I've used Kazza and imesh, and I prefer limwire. Thanks guys!

I would like to eliminate some extensions (like wmv) in a filter like the keyword filter.

c_robertson as well as adding .wmv into your filter keywords, you can also remove it from the shared extensions under Tools>Options>Sharing. OR mac osx that's LW prefs>Sharing.

outgoing playlist
 

sometimes i like to 'leave the taps open' during an afternoon, and watch the monitor to see what's going out -- and i imagine happy users finding long lost rare songs.

but then i'd like to hear the songs as they go out. thus -- a playlist in itunes every time an outgoing song is 100% completed.

but since there is already a 'Limewire' playlist in itunes, perhaps it could go into two playlists:

iTunes:
- Limewire - In
- Limewire - Out


(i've also posted this as a thread, or should it be here under 'new feature requests...?)

suggestion
 

Please add an option to NOT automatically popup discription boxes (tips) when brosing through song lists. I like to highlight certain entries, but the boxes make it impossible to see what I'm doing, so I find them more disruptive than helpful.

thanks,
/d

suggestion
 

To avoid furter contamination of downloads like viruses and spyware, i hope an anti-virus software like norton anti-virus or mcafee can be present as an option. People can turn it off to get better dwonload speeds if they want, but with risks. If not, they have the ability to use their own anti-virus software to scan while downloading?


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In-built Video Player(with codecs).

In-built java chatroom.

Ability to restrict sharing with an individual via IP address.

Media player can go into an individual window to edit when at other programs.

Maybe instead of only Limewire Basic and Pro, have
Bronze Basic, Silver Average, Gold Intermediate, Platinium Pro. Each have each different features. Platinum has most?

Suggestion.
 

I don't know if this has been suggested or not but..
--An integrated search in the Library (not incomplete downloads) It is somewhat of a hassle to have to look through all your songs just to play a certian one.. I prefer to browse my songs through Limewire rather than Windows explorer so this would prove very useful.. Preferably make it like the Winamp search where it searches as you type and you don't have to press a button..

Limewire PRO updating
 

Will someone who has LimeWire PRO let me borrow there email so i can update because the email i used to buy it has expired and so i can't update

progress tab tooltip downloaded/total
 

when extended tooltips are off(or both),tooltip for progress bar to have downloaded/total size(like the speed shows the long download speed)in kb/mb/gb acordingly,example: "1024kb/4860kb" or "1.00mb/4.74mb" (without quotes ofcourse)
this is a small & simple feature(compared to other requests...), if i could code then i would try to add it myself :P

How about standardised music descriptions?

eg: track no; song title; artist; album name

That way it's easy to sort and put into cd folders & playlists.

impliment exe/dll compression for max speed
 

See

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=39270

ADDING more sources manually
 

I know that there has been much discussion and debate about automatically querying for sources.... but a feature i would like to have added is whe you right click on one of you downloads there be an option "Add more sources", as i continually find that i file I am downloading will have at least 20+ people (if not more) that are sharing that file with good connection speeds, but my download will only be coming from a single host with a mere 1-5k d/l rate. (what happened to the other 19+ hosts that were found and all my extra bandwidth that could be used?)

The download will always try all of the hosts (up to about 6 maximum hosts at once). Many of them may be busy, offline, or unable to immediately service the request.

I have tried many times to chat with someone only to have "unavailable" pop up on the chat window. Maybe they think the RIAA is trying to reach them? :mad:

It would help if the person you are trying to chat with doesn't get their pop up window until you have already sent the message. They might be a little less apprehensive if they see the message first.

:)

Delete file option when you right click on a file under downloads. Put it under the Kill Download option. Sometimes you download a file and when you preview it you decide you don't want it. Clicking on kill download on stops it from downloading. The file is still in the incomplete folder wasting space.

Preview Avi just like in Kazaa Lite K++. They have a separate program that builds the the avi file so you can preview it.

Porn safe mode. You can mark porns as porns during download and also have it save on a separate hidden folder. Then with a special key combination or button you can hide your porn away. Especially usefull if you are downloading porn then someone asks you to download a song for them, then you can hide your porn with a quick key combination. When they look, hmm no porn. Sort of like a panic button or key combination.

View options on files being uploaded and those searches that are flagged with green checkmark.

The most crucial new feature needed is built-in reputation management (credence or something similar), with poorly-reputed files preferentially dropped by ultrapeers when they have to dump some search results to not choke and die of insufficient bandwidth. Currently, bogus results are quite frequent and seem to get injected from a lot of places, and though it's easy to spot and ignore them most times or even block the hosts spewing them into the network, they are crowding out legitimate results, a problem that you can't solve by simply ignoring it.

Offline isn't a possibility here -- not for a host in a search result. Not unless machines can transmit search results telepathically without needing a functioning network connection. :)

Related: the chat availability/unavailability indicator is broken (and has been for at least two major version increases and counting!) -- it sometimes isn't greyed even when the host is unavailable. Also, attempting to start a chat doesn't provide the user immediate feedback -- if it fails, either nothing at all happens, or a window pops up saying host unavailable. If it succeeds, a window pops up without the host unavailable message. The window does not appear immediately.

The behavior of just about every other instant messaging functionality I ever saw in any app on any platform is for a window to appear immediately and let you attempt to send a message, but it will alert you if the message isn't sent successfully with a bounce of some kind. Some also detect if the remote host is offline and grey out the message send typing area and send button when possible (MSN Messenger comes to mind). So my suggested fix: the window pops up immediately, and failed messages bounce somehow; the host unavailable message appears if a host is definitely not there or not enabling chat, and the menu item is greyed under the same circumstances (so the host unavailable message is for a host turning off chat or disappearing after you already opened the chat window).

Alternatively, dump the chat feature in favor of a way to exchange contact info, by making and setting a vcard or something and sharing/not sharing this as you please, and retrieving someone else's if they offer one with a standard file name or something. People can then swap emails, ICQ or AIM or MSN contact id numbers, an IRC server/channel or server/nick, or whatever and use a real messenger app with better functionality and reliability instead of one designed as an afterthought and bolted onto an app principally designed with something else in mind. Limewire (and other gnutella clients) get more streamlined and less buggy this way, by being able to more strongly focus on the core functionality, namely file sharing. Contact remains possible but the mechanism now uses the main strengths of the protocol: file sharing. Contact follow-through uses applications that have a focus on messaging, and consequently work better at it. Everyone wins.

Re: Deactivate Active Download
 

AIUI, there is a "pause" button that can be used in such a circumstance, followed by the up/down arrows.

Being able to nuke+retry a download would be useful. Currently, if you get the corrupt file notice, you can either continue the download and get a probably-worthless file, or stop it. If you stop it, all you can do is kill it and then to make another attempt to get the file you have to search for it again, unless the search or host-browse you got it from in the first place is still open. Searching again may fail to find it and burdens the network unnecessarily (your machine already knows of sources for the file). Leaving a search open until everything you wanted from it downloads limits your options in various ways: less other searches you can run in the meantime; limewire tends to perform poorly if search tabs are left open for an extended time for some reason (and slows the rest of the machine down, even when its cpu priority is lowered!); and you can't close limewire without losing the search tab in question. Letting completed searches and host-browses be saved and loaded, or "put away" and "brought back out" at least, would alleviate this a bit, but really there needs to be a third option for corrupt files: retry. In fact, any file should be retryable. Retry would be a right click option from a download pane item. It would a) halt the download, if in progress; b) delete the incomplete file; and c) resume it, causing it to be queued and eventually start downloading from byte zero. It would be the default option on the corrupt file dialog, with the other options being kill download and continue. (The useless "File Corrupt" status would be gone; you may as well just kill in that case, once you can retry from the file corrupt dialog.) Completed and partial files that aren't explicitly flagged as corrupt are sometimes also in need of a "retry" option, owing to Limewire's woefully poor ability to detect corrupt files reliably. Frequently a file is not as advertised, despite being a valid search result -- I've several times told it to get a batch of sequentially numbered files resulting from a specific search for specific subject matter and found most, on arrival, to be what they were supposed to be but one or two of them to have gotten substituted with spam or damaged somehow -- without the file corrupt dialog occurring, and without the search results being the common spoofed ones that are just "y_o_u_r__s_e_a_r_c_h__t_e_r_m.wmv"n or similar (those I just ignore). I presume that these result from a spammer/spoofer/vandal participating in the download mesh for the file, and Limewire trusting the host that sends the file to send the correct hash as well, instead of the hash coming with the search result instead (stupid; bittorrent is much, much smarter in this area; the scheme Limewire uses seems to be good at detecting accidental corruption but bad at detecting intentional corruption by a client in a file's mesh that is acting in bad faith and attempts to avoid being discovered until you've wasted your time fully downloading the file).

Totally agree with what sberlin said, but i would add (if this hasnt been said b4):

- ability to search for a particular filetype (.pdf, .cbr) etc

-ability to rate something as a fake

-ability to cut out a search tearm; for example you might want to search for "star wars", but cut out all entries that have the word "skywalker"

-chatting feature like msn with a "nudge" to alert the user or a sound or just somehting to grab their attention

listing numerical search columns in NUMERICAL order
 

I should very much like it if colums in the Search field which show number ... mainly Length and also bit rate, and track numbers... could be shown in true numerical order. e.g. the order of the numbers 100, 2000, 101, 60 should appear as 60, 100, 101, 1000. At present they appear as 100, 101, 2000, 60

Thanks!

stop auto download at start
 

please stop auto download of all files when Limewire opens...or am I using priorities wrong? I don't want 20 files opened when I start Limewire. thanx.

Have been playing with the new beta for a couple of days. The file warning dialog doesn't tell you in the overwrite file prompt if the file you might overwrite is the same, unless it's being shared. How about changing it to compare hashes when filenames are the same, and if the files are the same just say you already have the file, with an OK button and a don't show this again checkbox. If the files are different, the usual overwrite prompt appears.

Requeries and zero length files
 

Requeries should use the file hash. Suggestion: for now send two queries, one for the file name and one consisting of the SHA1, and start considering a file's SHA1 to be one of the things that can match a query term, as well as artist, album, file name and directory names, and so on.

When enough clients out there regard a SHA1 of a file equaling a query term as a hit, then you can drop the original query and only send the SHA1 query, reducing network load.

Requeries should be much better then.

Also, zero length files should not be shared. They're automatically useless -- anyone who wants one can create their own by means of right click, "new text file", and rename to suit on Windows and by using trunc on any file on any sane operating system.

Some suggestions for Limewire 5
 

First, Ive been using LW for maybe 5 years now and I still think it is the best P2P program out there! But over the years, many have grown more than LimeWire, because the fixes only include the little problems that people barely knew about. Here (in my opinion) are some suggestions that would make LW 5 be even more awesome!

- Changing the header from 'LimeWire: Enabling Open Information Sharing' to 'LimeWire: The Fastest Open Information Sharing on The Planet' or something similar.
- Adding a tab for a web browser with a homepage for Limewire basic and special homepage for pro (maybe with pop-up blocker as well?)
- In Search, downloads, uploads, and library, instead of the name of the file (ex. Black Eyed Peas - Lets Get Retarded, there could be 2 headings, Title and Artist. That would make the library and search more useful.
- Search the library function
- Search more function-- instead of clearing the results and re-doing the search
- Make a Traffic tab (including Downloads/Uploads) and removing downloads from the search tab, and uploads from monitor tab.
- Remove last searches from monitor tab (who uses that anyway?)
- In monitor add 'Connections' to that and maybe Network details like # of users on the network, # of files etc.
- *IMPROVE THE PLAYER!* make it seekable, maybe a equalizer, and add a theater tab for picture and video viewing with a visualization thing
- Make playlists more usable like by removing the bottom window in library, and saving teh title of playlist to the organization window and opeinging them in the main part (similar to iTunes)
- Change the Enqueue button back to Add to Playlist
- Remove 'Get limewire pro' tag at startup to basic and add a graphical LW Pro ad wher current text ads are.
- Continue to make the little changes and keep up the good work!

And to all the LW Basic users - SUPPORT THE LW TEAM AND GET LIMEWIRE PRO

An option in the downloads preferences to limit the number of connections to a single remote host. Check it and another option lets you set a number, default being 3. This is for those hosts that will not let you get more than 3 files at a time, and the others all end up awaiting sources. With this option if you find four files on the same host, it will get three of them and the fourth will stay queued. Then when one of the first three download it will try to get the fourth, and it will end up downloading instead of awaiting sources.