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Old April 17th, 2007
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Question Connection Status: Leaf? :l

Alright so, for the past few days, Limewires been making me pretty mad. I haven't been able to download anything because nothing shows up when i click search. Also, when i look at my connections, there are no connected hosts. For ie) each address says "connecting..." and at the top it says "Connection Status: Leaf" i have no idea what that means. and if there is anyway to change the "status" that would help the seaches.

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Try this for your problem of no search results.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...23&postcount=2

If that doesn't help then delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 below.
Fixes for LimeWire

This will kill all of your settings within LW's options, you'll have to go back through & reset things afterwards


There's no problem being connected as a leaf, providing you connect to good ultrapeers & not the crappy ones that have been causing problems for some people! You'll connect to ultrapeers to help you search & shield you from unnecessary traffic

Ultrapeers are people with a fast connection & whose FWs aren't firewalled. You connect to them & they in turn connect to other UPs & leafs...that's how your searches work. The network will connect you as an ultrapeer (if you have a fast enough connection & aren't firewalled) when there's the need.

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It's still not working. :l whenever i do the search thing, and i search for "limewire" or w/e, i can't get the right file name. and deleting the hosts didn't work. is there anything else i can do?
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Delete LW's preferences folder, you'll have to make sure to show hidden files & folders to be able to find the prefs folder. Make sure LW's properly closed first.
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