Not too well at the moment, - I have a very important exam next week, so I don't have much time for it right now. I think I'll have a working version ready early next month but for now I have other priorities.

>Illegal characters patch is a good idea. Thanks for the heads up. I assume it doesn't display results with illegal characters? Magnet links certainly has my attention. Heck, there's a lot of stuff in there that could be fun

i'm pretty sure greg sent an email to the dev mailing list a little while ago with a question regarding macs & magnet links -- since you're the local mac expert [and with good reason], any tips? (see the mailing list for the full question... )

I've gotten them to work in windows, it's a real pain (I'm prolly missing something) I'll see if I can work something out in Linux, but I would have no clue about OSX and have no acess to a Mac. You were prolly talking to trap_jaw anyway

The only way to use magnet-links with mozilla on linux would probably be a plugin (mozilla plugins should also work with konqueror). All I managed to do was copy & paste magnet support.

I don't know much about MacOS(X), - in fact I never touched a Mac (they are not popular at all in Germany and I don't think you can even buy them within 50 miles from where I live).

check out protozilla.mozdev.org !
it will work for magnet links.

Hey all, I'm less than a novice user, but enjoy reading the dialogue you geeks got going (no offence intended, I'm a geek wannabee)...

...I've spent alot of time constructing my searches and for one reason or another I'll end up with the whole que in the incomplete folder. Like others, I think, it'd be nice to do a global resume instead of adding them back to the search window one by one. Also, I've found minimal success with these anyway so should I just give up on these as bad searches or keep trying?

Thanks for a great product!

If a download goes into requery mode and if it remains in this state for more than two or three days I tend to give it up.

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Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

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For this user, I have a nifty quote:

Patience is not a virtue --- Dealing with computers it is a necessity.

How anyone bothers to wait two or three days for a download to START, I have no idea. If it's a HUGE file that has started to download and your bandwidth (and the bandwidth of those uploading) tells you it will take days, ok. But to START?

Feature I would like: I share almost anything I download. From the Library it would be nice to have a drag-and-drop function for the completed files to be sent to one of the shared folders I use to keep myself up-to-date on where they are. (Category folders like Music, Long movies, Short movies, Pictures, Sexpictures, Cool Stories, etc.)

Thanks for the reply! I'll give up on most of them, but some have partially downloaded. It would still be nice to group them and add them back at once instead of individually.

Also, I've read in one of the threads that the longer you leave limewire up and running the better the connections become. For me, I've observed that over long periods the activity seems to run out. Simply closing and reopening "reactivates" the activity so to speak. What's up with this or has anyone else not noticed this?

Restarting LimeWire helps a little. Most of the downloads will still not finish. The whole problem is that LimeWire considers all hosts that don't respond properly as bad and won't retry it, so - in case the host is really not active anymore - LimeWire won't keep on retrying it. Otherwise LimeWire would make it easy for a malicious attacker to use gnutella for a DDoS attack.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob