Is there a way to keep someone from snooping around outside my shared folder?

How do you know that they are downloading files that are not from ONE OF your listed "shared" file folders? Check to be sure that you don't have more folders listed than the ones containing files you wish to share.

I just joined Limewire, shared (and still sharing) my files freely, especially as I have a fair amount of torrents for people who want whole albums etc. Don't know if I've offended some-one, but I now can't get remaining files I am searching for (tried 'resume' several times and at all times of day, just in case diff time zone) - I know there is at least one source because I have percentages of the files mostly. Is there any way I can tell if some-one has chosen to block me? If so, is there any way I can grovel and ask them to allow me back in? Don't know if it's offensive, but I did try to download a lot of files at once from one host - if I did offend it was out of ignorance.

Btw, already spotting some s**t files and marking as junk, but some do successfully masquerade as good files still.

Any help/advice appreciated.

The advice I can give you is to not download more than one file from each host at a time. Especially if it's video, but also audio. And especially if they are rare files.

1. You get the file faster Downloading two will give you half the speed in most cases.

2. Host may go offline and you have several bits of files.

3. He may kill your upload for being greedy.

I have mine set on two, so if anyone tries for 3 files he is banned

Ummmm.... not to be rude, but isn't that what a "Shared" folder is for? Yeah, you can set it up so nobody can see anything in your Shared Folder, but then you would be downloading other people's files and not sharing any of your own. Why not simply transfer the files that you Do Not want to share out of your Shared Folder and into some other folder that you do not share online?

KK

Thanks for the advice Stief and Sleepless - tried searching again for the one file I really really wanted, and its now disappeared completely! The only other one which is a shorter version that's available is also corrupted unfortunately - guess I'll have to go out and spend some money and buy the CD.

Which leads me to another (probably dim) question - if I buy this CD, how can I store the contents on my computer in my shared files as mp3's? I use Nero to burn, but don't think this software can help me in this respect...?

Anyway, thanks for helping a junior member out. I've learnt my lesson about downloading too many at once from one host and will be more polite in future!

Nero has the ability to extract as WAV files. I don't have a new version of Nero so I don't know it's full abilities. But there's plenty of free audio programs out there which will convert wav to mp3, etc. or extract from cd to mp3. I'd recommend extracting as wav first! Then converting that into mp3 or aac or ogg vorbis, or a compressed lossless format.

Deepend, the earlier versions of LW were better at restarting incomplete downloads than the newer versions. What I'd suggest is, if you find someone who has lots of files you're interested in, make a note of their ip address. Then at some later time you can attempt to direct connect to them. This is not always successful but can work. Of course it depends on whether they are online, & whether both you & them have free upload & downld slots & bandwidth, & both you & them are configured properly firewall-wise. Another way is searching the file topic again, browsing those with similar files. Of course, if you have search results handy, you can cancel the downld & re-select to downld from the search results. This sometimes restarts the downld.

As far as requeries go, LW tries to keep traffic to a minimum. Requeries (click on link). I believe that's one reason LW has reduced the ability of files to search for sources immediately after opening LW.

Thanks Lord of The Rings

Can't say i am really happy about the response; if it is true (i belive your correct) my going Pro to get those "better search results, turbo charge download speeds & connect to more sources" was uh Useless i see no positive change at all oh well such is life i am not as suprised as i am dissappointed.

I see what you mean about the load on the servers but it seems those who UPLOAD over 100MB per day could get a little priorety when they are only downloading 10MB I can't even check my email sometimes due to the upload drain at the same time nothing at all goin down seems a bit out of balance.

Typical of the real world; don't know why i expect things to be different here No Honor Among Thievs anymore hey.

About finding hosts that let me browse there are very few for whatever reasons and most of them seem to get the hump if you like their taste in music and want more than their quota. That is pathetic; i consider it a compliment when someone likes my taste in music.

I only hope people will reconsider the definition of share!!!

Hello All Who Share

I am new to the forum & have been using LimeWire for about a month.

Thanks and Shouts to those who have made this possible.

I have been reading loads here lately; mostly about this topic as it is the only issue or problem i have had with P2P

I came to P2P with about 850 tunes half of which i have spent many hours recording from Vinyl and making mp3's the rest from my cd collection. I am Happy to share all of these with anyone who would return the favor i now have over 1000 that i Share (oh no have i been too greedy?) it seems there are some serious problems with greed here it is a deadly sin but someone who makes available all his music to others should hardly be considered greedy just because he has browsed a host (i browse somewone because i like what they have downloaded from me seems we at least Share the same taste in music, and liked what they have and want to have it as well. Yea i used to take what ever i liked from that host until i found out i was being judged as greedy by someone who thinks i am crossing the line by wanting to have more than three downloads) I set my bandwidth and max uploads to 20 per user thinking it was the right thing to do. I still think it's the right thing to do!!! I take what i like from a host as i don't know when he will be connected again. It seems logical not greedy!!! In fact i stay connected all day and it is normal to upload 150 or more tunes a day; these are not top 40 tunes either i still have 20 tunes that i try to download unsucessfully in that time as i lose the connection mysteriously. I feel my Limewire Pro is lame at automatically trying to find more sources. I have done a test and killed uploads within a minute they all seem to start again mine don't is this because everyone has disconnected or filtered me out. It seems like some Some days i get 0 complete unless i sit there and do endless searches that seem a total waste of time. I don't mind waiting a have patience but wasting my time like this ****** me off!!!

So now that i have vented i have a few requests.

Please rethink cutting off someone and setting low limits on users. There seem to be some problems with recognizing the peeps who share and those heathens who don't; and until there are solutions for this problem we should not be so judgemental.

LimeWire why can't you do something about this? With all you have done to make P2P possible it seems this should not be beyond your capabilities.

LimeWire why can't search restart automatically and constantally if the host is lost. If i have requested a download it is because i want it even if i lost the connection i didn't lose the desire to have that tune.

Hoping for Positive Change

i have tried chat but no one wants to