Files are all trash

kdza00 · #1 (**permalink**) July 25th, 2007

yeah it's quite disturbing BUT
you have to learn how to deal with files and with limewire users (who are the ones who put signs like the garbage one)

for instance:

1) i have downloaded hundreds of mp3 files WITH the garbage sign and none of them was a fake : all of them were ok

2) when you're looking for a movie, there is a trick : when you put the cursor on the file and you do NOT get any information about the size (like 512x288), it's a fake! do not download it!

understood? the sign does not mean a lot at all

birdy · #2 (**permalink**) July 26th, 2007

What you see marked as junk is determined by your own junk filter settings. Other users have absolutely no bearing on the files that you see marked as junk.

The filter has to be trained over time...if it looks like too many files are being marked as junk, relax the filter a bit. Or, you can forget training data altogether & start from scratch

It can take quite a while until the filter's working to your satisfaction & so it's a good idea to keep displaying 'junk'...often you have to go through & mark files as 'not junk'. It's part of training the filter.

This thread is long but it has some helpful info

Junk Filter

kdza00 · #3 (**permalink**) July 27th, 2007

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Originally Posted by birdy

What you see marked as junk is determined by your own junk filter settings. Other users have absolutely no bearing on the files that you see marked as junk. (...) Junk Filter

thanks for your comment, birdy

i did not know the signs were computed by my filter (i will have a look)

so, how do you explain this:
i put a garbage sign to the file "steven spielberg pranked call" (the one we all get, unfortunately), the sign stays for a while and then disappear?!?!?

Calabrese · #4 (**permalink**) November 15th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by kdza00

yeah it's quite disturbing BUT
you have to learn how to deal with files and with limewire users (who are the ones who put signs like the garbage one)

for instance:

1) i have downloaded hundreds of mp3 files WITH the garbage sign and none of them was a fake : all of them were ok

2) when you're looking for a movie, there is a trick : when you put the cursor on the file and you do NOT get any information about the size (like 512x288), it's a fake! do not download it!

understood? the sign does not mean a lot at all

I see this common misconception (no offense meant) among a lot of Limewire users. You are the only one using your own junk filter. Limewire's programming is marking these files as junk. It is going by whatever pattern you use to mark junk. You are meant to train the filter over time. If you mark small file sizes as junk, LImewire will assume that you do not want small files and will mark others as junk. Sometimes it does this with specific words in the file. This is the way it is supposed to work. However, I have not had the junk filter really work yet. Files I mark as junk show up again as not junk. So I don't really bother anymore.