No change. I stuck to 0.5.10 because I wanted to be sure the update system was working. I changed the check for updates to every 3 hrs a couple days ago.

I presume you tested the osx update working ok? If yes then it must be something at my end.

Not as thoroughly as I should have; more specifically I didn't test when the installation has existed from the 0.4 series like in your case. I saw someone successfully downloading the mac bundle from me and I presume it was you, so that part is working. I'll get busy trying to figure this out...

Is there any setting(s) I should change or delete in order to fix the update issue? I had not used MuWire for about a week. After starting I downloaded an update, then I noticed several hours later I was downloading another. Then some days later noticed I had downloaded quite a few. Not sure how long I've been connected (does not appear to be a tool to show this) but I guess it is about 4 days. (I have uploaded 100% of the part update.)

So not only am I not receiving update notifications but the old issue of multliple copies of the update downloaded. That's not especially fair on those who are sharing both the bandwidth and their upload MB totals. Nobody else has come forward about this issue?



Edit: It might be my fault: I found an issue within my own setup. The download folder didn't appear to exist so I guess this might be what's caused the problem. I'll see. My downloads folder is not on the system drive but a sub-folder elsewhere. I don't like using the system drive for anything but the system. This approach might be safer in more ways than one, not only the health and efficiency of the drive.

Sorry I have been working on a web interface for MW and haven't really had a chance to investigate in detail the update issue. Nobody else has reported it so far.




This could be indeed what's causing the issue. I don't check for the existence or ability to write to the selected download and incomplete folders, I should.


Can you try manually downloading a file (a search for "muwire" will yield many results) and then seeing if the downloaded file appears in your shared files list? If it does, then the update should work.


Another thing to try is to disable automatic download of updates. With that disabled, you should get an update notification immediately when MW discovers about a new version exists. But let's see if fixing the download folder makes a difference first.


Thank you for the time you've put into this; you're helping me find many scenarios I haven't thought about.

The incomplete folder did exist.
Won't let me download it. I'm guessing due to the incompletes titled with .zip.part and .zip.pieces

This might be considered somewhat petty. But just a personal choice.

Does MW record it's size and/or column widths in library/upload window?

My impression is these things are not recorded. Probably most people enjoy both the presets and the way the columns have a pulling factor on neighboring columns when moved. Personally I like to be abe to adjust them to custom widths. The upload window for example, the file name might be fairly long which means I need to stretch the column to see the entire filename. Remote pieces helps me to know how much of the file has been downloaded, but the full details are often obscured by default (probably for the large files.) It would be helpful if I could shift the column widths to a preferred width and remain that way between sessions. Likewise for the width of the gui. But obviously adding custom size options means recording the settings and potentially means slowing things down if custom settings exist.

I see you (or at least I think that is you) downloading it from me right now. It's not letting you start another download for a file which is already being downloaded, that's intentional.


Let's wait until the download finishes; an update message should popup.

The update message popped up after a restart. Updated.

Thanks for your help and sorry for wasting your time with something that was not a bug. Glad I (we) sorted this issue before Christmas and the new year. A rather dumb mistake on my part.

Any chance of future MW versions allowing MW to create folders in settings (download+incomplete)?
Or does this become too much of a platform specific task?
I can't remember about LW4 but FrostWire 4 had this ability for a downloads and shared folders. There is a very small if minute chance someone else might eventually make a similar error.

Hey, no worries, glad it's working now.



Regarding creating new folders - it does become platform-specific, but the least I should be doing is checking if the folder exists and can be written to, and displaying an error message if that's not the case. I would have never thought of this if it weren't for your help, so please do not think for a moment that you wasted my time!

After several months of work MuWire 0.7.0 is out. It should be at least 40% faster than the previous versions due to rewritten streaming library and new encryption protocol.



Also, you can adjust via a slider the level of anonymity vs. speed in the options.


There are a few other features, but the main thing is the speed. Give it a try!