No one else will say it, but I will. You ever start a download, spend about a day downloading the file, get about 98% finished, just to have your download stoped? Ever download a file, to find out that the title does not match the materal in the file? Spend a day downloading a file, just to find out that the file is damaged to the point that all you can do is delete the garbage, and try to download it agin? KIDS How about adding a new function to Lime Wire. A function that will record the problems that you have downloading files. The day, time, the IP addresses, yours, and theirs, and a description of the problem. Store this information in a data base, that is avable to everyone. It should be sorted by IP address, both. Add a coluim to the Search window, with the number of problems reported, click on a button on that line, to take you to a new form, a listing of the reported problems for that IP, and include the IP address of the person doing the complaint. Have that form sort the IP address of the person complaining. If one KID wants to copmplain about on site, many times, you would be able to see it. It may stop KIDS from making false complaints. I realize that not all of my problems come from KIDS that have nothing better to do, but I will bet that most problems are from KIDS. What do you think?

It's a PITA of a problem. The easiest way is to use Bitzi Web Lookup ... but if it isn't listed in their database, then add it yourself with appropriate remarks. You can also search the Bitzi database for what you're looking for.

I have only spent a short time viewing the information you are talking about. It addresses another problem, quility of the files that can be downloaded. I was talking about the IP addresses, to be more derect, the KIDS that control those IPs. If all the files were of good quility, had the correct name (I have spent half a day downloading what I thought was a Star Trek Enterprise epsode, just to find out it was adult film. I'm not objecting that it was an Adult film, I mad because it was not a Star Trek epsode), downloads would go much faster. You would only have to download the file once. If there was a way to record the IPs that put bad files to be downloaded by Lime Wire, every one would benefit by checking the data base. Eventurly most of the BAD IPs would reported. It would not stop new IPs from poping up, but maybe everyone would be able to enjoy faster downloads.

Some people have static ip's but some also use dynamic ip's. So the next time they log onto the net they may have a different address. That's the only complication.

You can ban certain ip's using LW. A couple of ways to do it. One is to manually add them to a banned list. Go to LW's menu bar >Preferences>Filters>Hosts.
You can also block them by control-clicking on one of those from the search results & selecting Block Host.

Scared of your one shadow? Do you see doing this as a form of BLACK LISTING bad sites. Am I the only one having trouble with the slow down loads? Lime Wire has some basic problems, basically the concept behind the code. I have been told how to change the forms to get it to run faster. The changes have made it faster, but the major reason for slow downloads is that there are so many people downloading files. If the bad files were removed, you would have to download a file just one time, not a half dozen times. Yes I can do as you suggested. Every time I run across a bad IP address, mark it on my copy of Lime Wire. Some of these IPs take a very long time in identifying. But the next Lime Wire user will have to do the same, because there is no way to shear my bad IPs with any one. They have to waste time playing the KIDS game and not downloading the file that they want to. I though the reason for Lime Wire so people could share files, not play games. I must be wrong, I must be using the wrong application.

I've never banned any user. But some people do. There's also apparently some dud ultrapeers set up out there which give no response so people can't connect & this is another reason. Some ban particular programs because they make too many requeries which in itself slows down the gnutella network. The older version p2p programs had this problem.

As far as LW for mac osx goes. Well osx uses an older version of Java for a start. Apple doesn't seem very interested in updating their Java. And LW runs on Java. So this version of java is slow.

As far as your original point about downlds stopping. This may be due to the holder of those files going offline. People come & go offline all the time. See the following link & follow all the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to solve this problem: To continue files downlding (click on link) Some skill sometimes helps in using LW or any other p2p program.

How to get rid of bad files? Don't know. There's bad audio files out there that seem to only apply to new songs. Who & why do you think would be responsible for this? Why people deliberately put poorly named files or corrupt ones out there. Who knows. One just has to work around it.