Grokster Icons?
 

Been offline for a couple of weeks and when I got back on Grokster, I noticed some different icons come up when searching.
I don't recall seeing the tan "exclamation mark" icon before, and when you click on it, it immediately comes up as "failed" in your traffic screen. Anyone know what this means?

The G means it's been downloaded successfully before, the other symbol means it's still a virgin.
There's also an option not to show stuff behind a firewall that you can't get. I think it's Tools/Options/Filter

Hmmm....interesting. Makes me wonder then how multiple users can have copies of the same "virgin" file....


yup, activating that firewall filter option eliminates the "virgin" files...

so, if I'm looking for something really obscure, do I wanna know that it's out there but I can't get it or would I rather just not know at all?

The way I see it Knife is......
 

If your file is REALLY (and, may I repeat) REALLY THAT obscure. It "may" be worth a small/large risk of dropping your britches (err.....firewall) and attempt to lift it?

Just a thought............(heehee, I get "lots" of those from time to time :D).




:BP:

You can always try WinMX. Lots of choice albeit with long waits sometimes.

Re: The way I see it Knife is......
 

You mean it's my firewall that's filtering those? I thought it was their firewall that was stopping the d/l's...why would my my firewall filter certain files and not others?

Re: Re: The way I see it Knife is......
 

Well perhaps I'm wrong but I can vaguely remember using another <ahem> popular filesharing program and if both parties are behind a firewall then the dl is quite impossible

....hey, I could be wrong ya know.

:BP:

Thanks Nap...actually, I'm collecting Peter Gabriel videos. I've never been able to get WinMx to work, but I wouldn't mind seeing a screen shot of a WinMx Peter Gabriel video search...

I was bored. Here's the few that's available on edonkey

I've tried winmx before, and never had any success with actually getting a file. The search results are very impressive, but they don't really mean a thing if you can't get it. :N:

Re: Re: Re: The way I see it Knife is......
 

You are not.

Normally when you download you are 'asking' the other user to send you the file from their side. If they are firewalled and can't send files, it can also be tried in the other direction.
You make the connection, they send the file.

WinMX works on OpenNap/SlavaNap networks and their own P2P network.

If you can never download a file, I find that weird. I download files every day, tho I must admit that I get remotely-queued very often (read below about WinMX).
You could also try disabling your firewall and try again...

While talking about firewalls, if you're using ZoneAlarm, get rid of it. It's crap. Try Kerio Personal Firewall :)

If people ask me what a good filesharing program is I mostly recommend audioGnome. Reason is that audioGnome maintains it's own serverlist, and (in my opinion), looks much nicer.
Another reason would be that WinMX has a pretty grave remotely-queue bug. Apart from that, it's just bad for OpenNap servers.