Number 6
11-21-2002, 06:02 PM
This is a file sharing network. That means that it's important to share the files you download with the next guy. If people don't do this, pretty obviously the system runs slower and slower and ultimately stops.
There have been several threads by people who are having trouble sharing their files. While they make a lot of files available the uploads aren't happening. This seems to fall into 3 categories: disabled share box in options, database problems, and excessive abortions.
If your share box is disabled, enable it.
If your share box is enabled, you have a lot of files to share, but Kazaa reports that you're sharing nothing, your database is in the process of being rebuilt (give it some time) or is corrupted (delete it and it will automatically rebuild). The larger the number of files you're sharing, the longer the database takes to compile, and unfortunately there is nothing to indicate that it is currently compiling.
My problem has been that every time someone would try to download from me, the connection would abort after 64Kb (rarely 128Kb or up to 320Kb). I could look at the traffic screen and see 60 aborts and 0 completeds. Clearly something was wrong (and has been happening to others).
Here's my new discovery: I changed the maximum number of results from 600 to 200, rebooted and DIDN'T USE SPEED UP. Immediately people were able to DL complete movies, but of course my own DLs were just sitting there. So I started Speed Up after starting KL, and everything's still working well. I don't know if the problem was related to the maximum number of results, or to Speed Up, but I suspect the latter causes a problem if you launch KL with Speed Up. If you're having this problem too, please try this fix and let us know if it worked for you too.
There have been several threads by people who are having trouble sharing their files. While they make a lot of files available the uploads aren't happening. This seems to fall into 3 categories: disabled share box in options, database problems, and excessive abortions.
If your share box is disabled, enable it.
If your share box is enabled, you have a lot of files to share, but Kazaa reports that you're sharing nothing, your database is in the process of being rebuilt (give it some time) or is corrupted (delete it and it will automatically rebuild). The larger the number of files you're sharing, the longer the database takes to compile, and unfortunately there is nothing to indicate that it is currently compiling.
My problem has been that every time someone would try to download from me, the connection would abort after 64Kb (rarely 128Kb or up to 320Kb). I could look at the traffic screen and see 60 aborts and 0 completeds. Clearly something was wrong (and has been happening to others).
Here's my new discovery: I changed the maximum number of results from 600 to 200, rebooted and DIDN'T USE SPEED UP. Immediately people were able to DL complete movies, but of course my own DLs were just sitting there. So I started Speed Up after starting KL, and everything's still working well. I don't know if the problem was related to the maximum number of results, or to Speed Up, but I suspect the latter causes a problem if you launch KL with Speed Up. If you're having this problem too, please try this fix and let us know if it worked for you too.