Limewire gurus, please put some kind of option to limit the size to either above or below certain file sizes to avoid getting millions of 147.5 kb files for, say, ghost recon, or 187.7 kb for some other monster program which is far bigger than the file size shown, obviously they're a virus, and thank god for bitzi, but c'mon, let's get rid of this ****... I think if you limit the search to files greater than 3 megs (when you know you're looking for a file thats greater then 3 megs), you would get fewer results from these idiots seeding these time wasting files. same goes for 100+Mb files, why would I want to check bitzi for a file that shows 87kb, or why would I want to look through hundreds of files just to find one or two..., ok, I can use the size order and put the biggest on top, but the other files seem to clog up the rest of the search and I get left with one, two or no file I want out of many....
is it feasible??? I hope....
thx

Sorry, but, there's no real way to do that in any P2P program because if there was a way, I'm sure it would have been added by now.

Although there would be a possibility of putting an option in the search of a minimum result size... the best thing to do (for now) would click the SIZE column head twice, thus putting all the small files to the bottom of the search results and the largest at the top (going by your opinion would mean "valid" hits being at the top)

^_^ Stay safe in your searches, always use an anti-virus program to scan programs and EXE files before running them on your computer to aviod naughty programs!

Seith

Yes, i always check bitzi, and always scan the file with my antivirus and antspyware programs before opening anyways....
And sphinx, anything is possible, someone only has to write the code and voila'....
thx

True but I have yet to see it and Ive been a long time P2P user. Filters can only filterout keywords. I have yet to see any app filterout by size. There is away to get rid of junk files in your LW settings though. I use this and tweak my settings and it pretty much rids myself of unwanted search results.

limewireuserabuser is totally correct... filtering file size is easy math scripting, just "if, "then" and "else" - seeing as all incoming hits are put through your custom filter anyway it should be easy.

If it's something you feel will greatly aid limewire users you can submit it to the limewire production team - but I can't remember the email for it or the link to it, see the website http://www.limewire.com clicky

Seith

The LW softw team have apparently discussed size filters. But the problem is if they introduce it, then spam will simply get bigger. Then instead of it being less than 1,000 KB (1 MB), it will then become as large as any file out there. As it is, spamming of fake files is already here. The Junk filter which is a dynamic learning filter, filters out most common spam anyway. It requires a lot of persistence to learn to cope with viruses however. The junk filter only works when the user applies it. Not on its own.

Well they can put it as a search option
Search results (< X) and (> Y)

That shouldn't be a problem, and it would help aviod small files when searching for files over 100MB

This said, you can still sort the search results accending or decending... so I don't see a problem... nor the use for this request =)

Seith

I made a request for it 2 years ago. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ht=size+filter

Yes I totally agree with your point!!! It has been requested many, many times since. But it's up to the LW team & their reasoning.

Not being vigilant and just looking at file size is being lazy :P

Plus... would you REALLY use it? I try to aviod using anything that's going to trim my search hits, just download everything then decide what you don't need xD