Jiglo said:
1 - What do the blue symbols mean at the side of our names?
The one that supposedly looks like a bird with its wings open shows that you are online and at the PC. If you press the "toggle away" button at the top, you can change the status to Away (so it looks like either a bird with its wings shut, or a blue turnip, whichever u prefer). This is simply to signify whether you're at your PC or not. If you minimise the soulseek window I think it automatically switches to away after a while.
Jiglo said:
2 - Why can't I find files searching for them using the search function, but I can find them in peeps folders (well cutter's - as he's the only one given me access to his files so far
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The search on soulseek is pretty crap. Due to the way it works, it doesn't always scan everyones files, so you sometimes get very limited results. If you leave it running for a while, sometimes things show up eventually. Also you will need to be on people's user lists before you can get search results off them. So if cutter's the only one who's added you, that's probably why.
Jiglo said:
3 - If I switch my pc off at night and somebody's in the middle of downloading a long file, would it: a) piss them off, b) restart for them the next time i'm online.
The transfers are all resumable, so it will stay on their queue and automatically re-start next time you're both online.
Hope this helps, if you want adding to my userlist let me know your ID on there (mine is mikeeee)