You've got to be kidding right....
Karen Kraft do something with your freakin sig, I dont come on here to see that crap....

There are hackers and then there are hackers, the way I see it. The crappy ones can't take advantage of the fact that you are uploading OR downloading anything. The good ones don't need to have you doing either -- just have an available port.

I think it's just good old-fashioned B.S. control games: I will take from you and get a kick out of not giving anything in return. Sound familiar (don't get me started on that!)...

LOL.

Sorry.

It was a SigLine from a different forum. I will change my options to delete the offensive portions...

... unless you find my "Fertility Friend" objectionable.

Seriously: Thanks for the heads-up.

Karen.

Is there a way to keep someone from snooping around outside my shared folder?

How do you know that they are downloading files that are not from ONE OF your listed "shared" file folders? Check to be sure that you don't have more folders listed than the ones containing files you wish to share.

I just joined Limewire, shared (and still sharing) my files freely, especially as I have a fair amount of torrents for people who want whole albums etc. Don't know if I've offended some-one, but I now can't get remaining files I am searching for (tried 'resume' several times and at all times of day, just in case diff time zone) - I know there is at least one source because I have percentages of the files mostly. Is there any way I can tell if some-one has chosen to block me? If so, is there any way I can grovel and ask them to allow me back in? Don't know if it's offensive, but I did try to download a lot of files at once from one host - if I did offend it was out of ignorance.

Btw, already spotting some s**t files and marking as junk, but some do successfully masquerade as good files still.

Any help/advice appreciated.

Hi barbarian2

Contacting another host for a chat is unpredictable, but in your case is probably not necessary.

There is code that will automatically and temporarily (not sure how long, but less than a day, I think) that will return "banned greedy client" if too many files are requested at once, or repeatedly.

To avoid that, only choose 3 files at a time from one host. 3 is the default setting, and few people change it. Test by downloading 4 files from that host: if 3 start and the 4th doesn't, that probably means the host is using the default settings.

As for completing those existing downloads, just do a "find more sources", and/or repeat the search.

The advice I can give you is to not download more than one file from each host at a time. Especially if it's video, but also audio. And especially if they are rare files.

1. You get the file faster Downloading two will give you half the speed in most cases.

2. Host may go offline and you have several bits of files.

3. He may kill your upload for being greedy.

I have mine set on two, so if anyone tries for 3 files he is banned

Ummmm.... not to be rude, but isn't that what a "Shared" folder is for? Yeah, you can set it up so nobody can see anything in your Shared Folder, but then you would be downloading other people's files and not sharing any of your own. Why not simply transfer the files that you Do Not want to share out of your Shared Folder and into some other folder that you do not share online?

KK

Thanks for the advice Stief and Sleepless - tried searching again for the one file I really really wanted, and its now disappeared completely! The only other one which is a shorter version that's available is also corrupted unfortunately - guess I'll have to go out and spend some money and buy the CD.

Which leads me to another (probably dim) question - if I buy this CD, how can I store the contents on my computer in my shared files as mp3's? I use Nero to burn, but don't think this software can help me in this respect...?

Anyway, thanks for helping a junior member out. I've learnt my lesson about downloading too many at once from one host and will be more polite in future!