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ixus_123 · May 2, 2003, 05:40 PM

Just a quicky to see what you guys use for file sharing and how you rate it.

I have am trying out Aquisition 0.9 (I had been using 0.74 for ages as it seemed most stable).

I didn't like Limewire and I downloaded Fern but couldn't install it.

So what else is available and waht do you rate?

SubGeniux · May 2, 2003, 05:52 PM

I like Xnap , a bit slow though, also Neo, nice interface.

Peter · May 2, 2003, 05:53 PM

Acquisition realy is the best P2P out for OS X

RevEvs · May 2, 2003, 05:53 PM

this comes up quite a bit, just use the search.

basically in summary, you have Aquisition, Limewire and the mldonkey (not the easiest to setup for a novice, and requires a nis HUI to make it decent - id suggest iHan) as the main ones, none of them come close to Kazaa, and if you want something like kazaa then best bet is VirtualPC and run it from there.

revs

Busemann · May 2, 2003, 06:53 PM

If you have a fast Mac you might wanna check out VPC 6 & Soulseek running in Windows 2000.

n~s · May 2, 2003, 07:12 PM

KDX

Mediaman_12 · 02:46 PM

You could give GiftBoX a try

hui · May 2, 2003, 09:57 PM

BitTorrent!!!! It really rules at divx files!!

trusted_content · May 3, 2003, 02:00 PM

Originally posted by Busemann:
If you like good music, you may want to check out X11, Fink, and pyslsk (soulseek linux client)

Fixed.

Miniryu · May 3, 2003, 03:27 PM

I downloaded giFTBox a few days ago, and was able to use it fine. I started dling files left and right- then all of a sudden it kicked me off. Since then I have not been able to start the gift Dameon again. What's going on? I just want to be able to search for files again- I loved the brief 3 minutes I had (Aqcuisition does give enough results in it's searches).

frates · May 3, 2003, 03:52 PM

Give mldonkey a try. It's a client to connect to the edonkey/emule, overnet, bitTorrent, GNutella.

Support for edonkey and overnet networks is complete, it's really a great piece of software.

If you want some help, download links, tutorial : www.macdk.com

Miniryu · May 3, 2003, 04:08 PM

I checked the giFTBox forums, and apparently this is a common problem. The fix that I used worked great- there is an invisible file ".giFT" in the root directory. use the terminal to delete this (rm -rf .giFT) and download the app again.

As far as mldonkey- I downloaded all of the stuff that you need. I took one look at the directions and got lazy,and never bothered to install it. giFTBox was so easy and returned plenty of results from my first search. I'm happy.

fortepianissimo · May 3, 2003, 04:48 PM

probably not too relevant, but I just read somewhere a review on iTunes music store. One of the guys said the apparent success of the service could also attribute to the lack of the P2P client on mac platform...

frates · May 3, 2003, 05:43 PM

Originally posted by fortepianissimo:
probably not too relevant, but I just read somewhere a review on iTunes music store. One of the guys said the apparent success of the service could also attribute to the lack of the P2P client on mac platform...

True. Really efficient softwares (mldonkey, giftbox) need more than one click to get them to work properly. Emule, kazaa... on windows are really one-clieck-ready apps.

iRebound · May 3, 2003, 06:01 PM

I use Acquisition, Hotline (Frogblast), and DirectConnect.

Search for 'em on VersionTracker.

ixus_123 · May 4, 2003, 11:53 AM

Thank-you all.

I download giFTbox but had a bit of a 'mare getting it to run. Took me ages to find the solution too. Works fine now though - for anyone about to download it - dont run it off the mounted disk image - drag it to your disk before running otherwise follow the solution above.

I could fid loads of files with this but found it a bit hard to sort them and everything i tried to download was just queued so for the time being I still prefer Aquisition.

Neo - I can never get what I want off there.

That donkey one will be the next one I try.

Thanks again.

Rinpoche · May 4, 2003, 02:22 PM

i like direct connect