Limewire can only do so much...

My biggest problem with Limewire are its users - I mean would it kill anyone to write a descriptive file name - things like version, operating system (for the Mac vs. PC people), tell us if it is a crack or the actual app, includes a serial number... not to mention posting corrupt zip files... It is a mess!

Also, what is the deal with so many downloads just hanging - meaning I slelect a file and get an endless "Requery Sent, Waiting..." especially when so many seem to be T1 lines (like I belive that in the first place). If you are running Limewrie, then don't be so stingy with your bandwidth percentage or slots - just turn it off it you aren't going to contribute.

Some may say this is the price I pay for not paying the price, but if this is going to work, people have to be a little more cooperative.

[Julie Z]

I understand what you are saying. There are alot of cr@p files out there. Corrupt, completely different than the title, incomplete... We just have to keep trying sometimes until we get what we want. "Beggars can't be choosers", right? But it would be nice if people actually checked what they download/share to be sure that they are actually good/usable files.

Anyway, as for the titling: unfortunately, Mac users are very limited in titling. We are only allowed so many characters for a file name. Sometimes we have to be a little creative. It sucks. I'd sure like to be able to use more words sometimes. But, I can't.

[Joakim Agren]

Hello!

You should not blaim LW users in particular but all clients users on Gnutella that selects bad file names even false ones sometimes and also ofcourse the lack of some users efforts to check their shares in their directory.

The 32 character limit for us Macintosh users is not a problem when selecting file names in LimeWire that are actually Meta Data in itself.The File name displayed when someone has searched for one of your files is not the real file name that that file has on your HD.Instead it is the File Name that are displayed in the Library.Here you can edit the file name to be something completely different from what it is named on the HD itself also it can have more characters then 32.However you should be aware of that once you changes the name for a file in the Library it will also change to a different strange name on the HD(Usually the beginning of the file name will be the same as it was before but the rest will be some strange characters like numbers and hashes).

One problem that can occur when changing the name for a file in the Library is that if you have a playlist in your MP3 player all the files (MP3 songs)that where renamed will be unplayable because the path to the file where broken so you have to manually look up the files again and restore the path to these particular files before you can play them again.To do that in iTunes do the following highlight the file in question and then hold down the control key and then click the mouse button and from the contextual menu that appears select Play.You will now reacieve a prompt that tell you that it cannot find the file and you will be asked if you want to find the file select yes and then browse to it and click OK and you are done now that particular file is once again playable.Repeat this procedure with all the files that where renamed(broken paths are in iTunes indicated with an ! mark before the file name).

The above described procedure is for iTunes if you are using another player or OS it will be different.

[Freiluft]

I have gotten bad files and added "BAD" to their names, since on a Mac I don't have many letters to spare. Well, guess what? They are my most popular files! People only see the grouped files and don't check in the list.

Also, I don't think you can give a file a long name if it wasn't downloaded from Limewire to begin with. Every time I try this, when I refresh the list, the name returns to the original short Mac name. Same thing with aliases.

The way Limewire treats file names on the Mac is one of the lamest features. Why can't it just drop the middle out instead of giving it a gibberish series of letters and numbers?

.sit is for Mac, .zip is for PC. Easy rule.