Usage Searches
Contents
Description
From this window you can search for files on the eD2k and Kademlia netowrk and add them to your download queue.
Usage
Main
This is how a bare search window looks:
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The part surrounded by a red square is what's actually used for searching.
The above part of the search box is where you will input your search queries:
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The lower part in the serach box is where search results are displayed:
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Basic searching
Begin a search
To begin a search, type on the Name box the text you want to find and then click on the Start button:
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For example, if you wanted to search for files which's filename contained the work amule, you would search for amule (see image above). If you would want to search for Debian ISO CDs, you would type something like debian iso.
The logic of search queries is described in this article.
Getting results
Once a search has began, a results tab will appear:
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On the results tab you will see a list of available files. You can see the filename, size, amount of sources, type of file and fileID:
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When no results are found for the search query, the results tab appears empty.
Stop a search
To stop an active search just click on the Stop button (or close the active tab as explained later in this article):
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Downloading
There are three ways to begin a download:
- Through the download button
- Double clicking
- From the extended options menu
Each of them have advantages and disadvantages. They are now described.
Download button
When a search has been performed and results have appeared, you can now start downloading the files listed. To do so, just select the file (or files, see the multiple selection article) you wish to download and click the Download button.
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This method is available for all users and allows multiple files downloading in a single click.
Double clicking
To begin a download, instead of clicking the download button, you can just double click the file you wish to download.
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This method is very comfortable, however, it will only download a signle selected file. That is, if you have more then one file selected, it will only download the file you double click on, not all those you have selected. Of course, you will also loose the selection.
Extended options
Once you have selected the file(s) you want to download, right-click over it (just right-click over any of the selected files if you selected more than one) and select Download.
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A great advantage of this method is that you can directly define he category you want the file(s) to be added to if instead of selecting Download you select Download in category and the category you want it to be enqueued into.
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This method allows multiple files downloading with a single click, but is not available for those Mac users using a single buttoned mouse.
Tabs
Main descriptions and usage
Whenever you perform a search a tab is displayed:
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If you now start another search, a new tab will appear and the old results tab(s) will go to background leaving the new tab in forground:
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Each tab shows a text which corresponds to the search you performed for the results shown in that tab.
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If you click on any of the tabs, the results obtained for that search request are shown. This allows you to have multple search results simultaneously (so you can compare them, for example).
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Appart from the search text, the tab displays also a number in brackets. This number corresponds to the amount of results found:
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Close a tab
The X button displayed on each tab to the left of the search text can be clicked to close the tab. Closing a tab will also stop the search it is performing if the search is still active.
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Scroll tabs
When there are enough openned tabs not to fit in the window you will be able to scroll through the tabs by using the two arrows displayed to the right and left of the tabs.
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Advanced searching
Several aspects of a search can be tweaked. This are:
- The search type. In other words, the method aMule will use to perform the search.
- Extended search parameters to adjust better the results and how to operate with them.
- Filename filtering to remove non-wanted results.
Search type
In the Type selection box yuo can decide the search method to use. Read this article to learn more about how it method works and what it is good for.
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Extended parameters
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Filtering
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Clearing searches
There are several things you can clear in the search window when the seraches have been performed and you don't need the results any more.
Clear search text
The search text can be removed by selecting the text and deleting it or by simply clicking the Reset button:
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Clear a tab
We've already seen that to clear a tab you must click on the X button by the search text in the tab:
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Clear all
If you just want to remove all tabs and clear the search text, simply click the Clear button:
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Miscellaneous
The Fast ED2K links handler will always be shown in the search window, even if disabled in Preferences. However, if you have disabled "Preferences" -> "GUI tweaks" -> "Show fast ED2K links handler", then you can click twice the Search button in the main aMule window toolbar and the Fast ED2K links handler will be hidden in the search window too.
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