Sorry Sam and trap_jaw--my mistake. I appreciate that you guys contribute solutions and generously try to help. Those like me who are users and want to share our files need to know where to look for solutions. I'd thought these forums were the place.

Should I be trying to read the developer mailing lists?
Should I watch here for a response from Limewire?

Thanks for any answer.

Respectfully--Stief.

You are welcome to read it but I don't know if the posts will make much sense for you at first, unless you have some basic programming knowledge. But don't worry, I didn't have that either when I started reading it.

However I have to warn you, the dev mailinglists are not very exciting at all. If you are looking for all kinds of cool insider infos, it's probably not the right place to go.

Btw. I'm just about to write a weekly news flash about LimeWire development in the open discussion forum.

Thanks trap_jaw
http://www.limewire.org/project/www/MailingList.html is the place to start, I assume. Real info beats "cool insider" stuff anyday.

You computer boys do run on so with that fancy jargon...

Had 2.7 - got music.

People came on with 2.8 and killed me dead.

I got 2.8 - don't get music.

Same computer, same server, same operator.

You've got problems.

See how easy that was.


Angus

Actually you are the one having problems, because you are the one who cannot download any music. Unless you are able to describe your problem beyond "It doesn't work", it might very well stay your problem because I did not experience anything like that.

just fyi stief -- if you want to use the web archive to read any old stuff, don't be put off by the fact that it doesn't list any new posts after december. it's just a problem with the webserver that handles those pages (and the thing is too fragile to mess with), so just hit view all' [or whatever the actual link is] and scroll as needed.

Actually if you were just a bit less computer savy and more up on the english language, you would see that the problem came about for me with introduction of 2.8.6.

You know, the one you don't even use any more?

Read more, post less.

I am far from the only computer dullard that got up and going with the old version, no sweat, and have had the bottom fall out with this supposed upgrade.

I didn't pay for it, so who really cares - but others did.

They have begun posting too.

This is a shared network with shared problems.

If you want any of music, tough crap now because I get frustrated and quit far more frequently now.

"REQUERY" over and over and over and over...

It is our problem - but I obviously can do nothing to fix it except point out when it fails. (I write books for a living not programs.)

Later, much

Angus

ah! Thanks sam. Luckily trap_jaw's summary here probably saved me hours of reading. I still plan to browse there more as time allows. Looks like "magnets" is the magic word for us on OSX. Now I have to find out what it means, and an OSX programmer!

BTW, I was reassured to see the Limewire team is active there--I was afraid the silence here since Christmas meant bad news for the company, and good news for those who would like to shut down these kinds of networks.

I don't write programs for living either. If I had to, I'd probably starve. So if you want me (or one of the other open source developers - the LimeWire developers are already busy improving things) to help you, you have to be a little cooperative and give us a few bits of information like if you are seeing any error messages or what operating system you are using - maybe even give a short description of the problem.
This post tells me at least that your problem is related to the requery mode. I assume that most of your downloads go into requery mode without ever finishing. Okay. There is no quick fix for this (except for searching for that file again which might help occasionally), this issue is being addressed, wait for the next version since it will change the network topolgy to improve searches & downloads.

So long you could simply use another p2p client: There are eDonkey, DirectConnect and OpenNap clients for nearly every operating system (including MacOS). For windows there is also Kazaa and Piolet. Switch back to LimeWire when it has become better than the rest.

This is a test to see if Force IP is working for me. Thank you!