God, this is psycho psychic. I was thinking exactly the same thing today, because I wanted to inform the person dowloading a certain file from me that I was willing to hand around if he was going to finish downloading at that session, if you will. Big files can take a long time to transfer, you know

Sometimes you can chat with uploaders, right-click or command-click one of the lines in the Monitor window. There should be a chat option in the contextual menu that appears. In recent LimeWire versions however I had a hard time getting that contextual menu to show up.

I'm using the cvs version and chatting with uploaders works very well. - To allow chatting with each and every uploader you'd have to block all non-limewire clients from downloading from you - and that will certainly not be done.

A different view
 

I'd like the app to WORK--1. When I click outside the app, it crashes every time--no matter what you say--it STILL does. 2. For every other app I've ever seen, when you put something in quotes, it searches for the exact words--except for Limewire--it searches for something that contains one or more of the words. 3. The highly-praised new feature that does a future search for something follows the same twisted logic as #2, above. It downloads anything that con tains one or more of the words in quotes--when you are searching for a song title of, let's say" "the street where you live", it might download a song with the word "street", "live". "where" or "you" in it, etc. This is not very helpful. 4. Partially down-loaded files do not continue to download after the app is closed--about half the time.

So, I don't want anything fancy in your next upgrade, I'd just like the features you already have to work properly.

1. probably a problem with java, do you get any error messages?
2. Advanced searching is not supported by the gnutella protocol.
3. With meta-data search you can try to specify more clearly what you are looking for, so you receive less 'bad' results.
4. Well, LimeWire tries to continue incomplete downloads but it doesn't always work because the remote host serving the file might not be available or LimeWire crashed and the downloads.dat file was corrupted.

You're right, advanced searching (and, or, not, "") is no longer possible on the gnutella network since the introduction of QRP, which allows only the type of keyword search sudarat described (QRP is a great thing nevertheless).

However, the feature he requested is still possible. All LimeWire would have to do is to perform a regular or-search for the specified keywords first and refine that search later. That means, if one queried the network for "the street where you live", every search result that does not include this exact string would simply not be displayed. it's quite easy actually.

Personally i'd like it best if every search tab would contain a refinement box (like in gnucleus).

-- Refined Search/Filter tools --
 

I would really like to refine the search results... that is a search within the search results or better yet a filter that could be applied to search results allowing various patterns to be searched while retaining the original search results.

There are occasions where I am looking for a given song by a given artist... I have found that typos and outright misspelling cause results to be erratic... so if I know the song is by say, Jackson Browne, I do a 'net' search for Jackson Browne and the would be able to search/filter the results for the song or fragment of song.

Minor feature requests
 

1) Perhaps a button that allows LimeWire to scan your shared folders and refresh your list of shared files. I often see "File Not Found" messages in my upload list because I have a tendancy to rename blatant misspellings or misnomers. It also doesn't seem to refresh after file deletion. I'm not sure if there's a way to automatically detect file modifications, but at least the user could refresh manually.

2) An exit command from the file menu. Ideally, the user should have the choice either to shut down or minimize to system tray (in Windows) by the normal close button in the top right, and there should be a dedicated, immediate exit function available also. Just an aggravation to me. Maybe I haven't figured it out yet.

Brandan L.

From Brandan:
An exit command from the file menu. Ideally, the user should have the choice either to shut down or minimize to system tray (in Windows) by the normal close button in the top right, and there should be a dedicated, immediate exit function available also. Just an aggravation to me. Maybe I haven't figured it out yet.


You can select your shutdown option from Tools/Options/Shutdown

Re: Minor feature requests
 

Brandan, try clicking Refresh in the Library section after making changes. That should reload all the shared files.