*sigh* Maybe I'm just not doing this right. But here's an example. I go to search for... I don't know... Tom P***y. I choose "Videos". And what comes up? 100,000 things that have absolutely nothing to do with Tom P***y. Everybody and their dog. And their dog's bone. Am I supposed to weed through all this to find the words "Tom P***y" in all that? (I haven't searched for Tom P***y, yet, but he jumped in my head when I started posting this.)

Why does Limewire bring up everything in the world except what I asked for? Seriously, no matter what I've put into the search field this evening, whatever comes up has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm trying to find. I'm just trying it out to see if I want to buy it, so yes, I'm using Basic. (And I wasn't sure where to post this. Since I use Mac, I put it here.)

Do you guys have this problem? Is it just a lot of tedium I have to put up with when I run a Limewire search and there's nothing I can do but roll up my sleeves and dig in there?


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Yes, this is a problem with bad servers, who dump junk results no matter what search term you enter. Guess some computers out there are set to discourage users.

Using the junk filter helps a bit. Enter a ridiculous search term, like "frxd bla8 .tif" Select all the results that pop up and use the junk tool to mark them as junk. Repeat a few times to get the hang of using the junk tool.

You can also turn on the Connections view, and see the connected hosts. when I get too many junk results, I'll look at the connections and maybe use the "Remove" button to get rid of some that I might guess are the culprits.

Have fun. It can be a bit of a game between the spammers and the users.

Ah. Rolled up sleeves and hip waders, then.

Thank you, Stief! I'll just take a couple of days to do a little sorting through the trash, then.

How to find music also applied to video in principle. ________ http://www.gnutellaforums.com/263723-post2.html

Thanks so much! I appreciate all the help I can get. So far, I've been unlucky with videos. No matter what I download, when I try to open it I'm told that it's "not a movie file", mpg, though it may be. When I get lucky, I'll have to dash back in here and announce it.

It might be a QuickTime video plug-in codec issue, http://www.gnutellaforums.com/292880-post4.html
However, if you are downloading torrents, make sure it's the actual video you open with QT Player (or other player) & not the torrent file you downloaded from the website. ie: check the video file size. Torrent files will be perhaps 5-30 KB, whereas video files will be perhaps 100 MB - 2+ GB. If you downloaded a dvd with it's video folder & files inside, then open it using apple's dvd player.