giFTBox (like KaZaA) for Mac OS X

ahduke99ahduke99
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Everyone download this and help it grow. It's the closest thing we'll ever get to Kazaa and it's good for a beta 5 version.



http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=58556
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  • Reply 1 of 29
    mac os x addictmac os x addict Posts: 322member
    How do you get some servers?
  • Reply 2 of 29
    ahduke99ahduke99 Posts: 7member
    you start the giFT Daemon and then connect to the local giFT daemon. i've gotten up to 852 users and 700,000 files.
  • Reply 3 of 29
    mac os x addictmac os x addict Posts: 322member
    For some reason it did not work the first time I tried. Now it works. Looks good.
  • Reply 4 of 29
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    852 users? I hope Kazaa dies because it just plain sucks on Mac (and they cap it here!)
  • Reply 5 of 29
    bigmclargehugebigmclargehuge Posts: 175member
    I can't get it to run



    0 users, 0 files...



    this is what I get when I try to connect.



    [giFT ] /Users/taco/Projects if_event_attach (127.0.0.1): 0x6d340

    OpenFT: 68.116.18.21:1215 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 216.241.38.98:1215 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 213.221.81.20:2392 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 24.165.31.14:1245 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 66.93.220.94:1215 (USER) -> DISCO: Bad file descriptor
  • Reply 6 of 29
    daverdaver Posts: 496member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BigMcLargehuge

    I can't get it to run



    0 users, 0 files...



    this is what I get when I try to connect.



    [giFT ] /Users/taco/Projects if_event_attach (127.0.0.1): 0x6d340

    OpenFT: 68.116.18.21:1215 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 216.241.38.98:1215 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 213.221.81.20:2392 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 24.165.31.14:1245 (USER) -> DISCO: Socket error: Bad file descriptor

    OpenFT: 66.93.220.94:1215 (USER) -> DISCO: Bad file descriptor



    I get the very same thing with newer builds of GiftBoX, which is odd, because the first betas used to connect just fine.



    Anyone know what's going on here?
  • Reply 7 of 29
    bigmclargehugebigmclargehuge Posts: 175member
    I let it run for a little while and it eventually connected to a remote site.



    So it's working now
  • Reply 8 of 29
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...threadid=31600 = http://forums.appleinsider.com/show...&threadid=23448 = http://forums.macrumors.com/showthr...&threadid=24896 = ... spammety spam. \
  • Reply 9 of 29
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Spam indeed. None of your links work, Mulattabianca.



    Anyway, this is a nice little app. I was connected to 1052 users last night. Though, a lot of my searches end up blank. Ah well, a good start.
  • Reply 10 of 29
    mac os x addictmac os x addict Posts: 322member
    After trying giftbox for a while I still find that Acquistion is a lot better. A lot better.
  • Reply 11 of 29
    buzzardsbaybuzzardsbay Posts: 153member
    Is giftbox working for anyone??



    It worked for me for about one day and night and now whenever I click to start sharing and downloading a few seconds later it changes from on back to off.



    Is there anything I can do to fix this? Does anyone have a remote site I could connect to?



    Thanks,

    Dan
  • Reply 12 of 29
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Kazaa is on borrowed time anyway. Kazaa would be awesome if U. RI didn't cap it and if Mac support wasn't a complete joke. Open source people are also thickheaded about licensing issues. Why can't giFT be in iSwipe huh?
  • Reply 13 of 29
    retrograderetrograde Posts: 503member
    Just downloaded this app to give it a try: I know someone who is using it and getting great results. Unfortunately I am getting similar problems to others: 0 users, 0 files... Anyone having any luck here? or any solutions to the problems?
  • Reply 14 of 29
    loganlogan Posts: 284member
    To the people using acquisition, did you guys actually pay for it? I think LimeWire is the best thing available on the mac.
  • Reply 15 of 29
    ellen's boy toyellen's boy toy Posts: 21member
    I have had great luck with mldonkey.

    It's downloading 3 movies right now.

    But I hope giftbox comes along also, since its goal

    is to access many p2p networks at once.



    http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/F...cty=US&lang=en
  • Reply 16 of 29
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,425member
    YOU GUYS ARE ALL THIEVES!!!



  • Reply 17 of 29
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Logan

    To the people using acquisition, did you guys actually pay for it? I think LimeWire is the best thing available on the mac.



    I haven't payed for it. How can you think Limewire's better than Acquisition? Limewire's never worked well for me.
  • Reply 18 of 29
    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    From what I gather, Aquisition is an aqua gui over the limewire core.
  • Reply 19 of 29
    jdbon2jdbon2 Posts: 44member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R

    From what I gather, Aquisition is an aqua gui over the limewire core.





    Not exactly. Both Limewire and Aquisition are Gnutella clients. Gnutella is a P2P network protocol. Limewire is written in Java while Aqcuisition is written in Cocoa. Acquisition is more of a native Mac OS X app than LImewire.



    Another great client is Xnap for the Open Napster network. Unlike Mldonkey and giftbox you dont have to go through a laborious process of installing it through the command line.
  • Reply 20 of 29
    o and ao and a Posts: 579member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Logan

    To the people using acquisition, did you guys actually pay for it? I think LimeWire is the best thing available on the mac.



    Limewire is a joke.



    Acquistion is the best thing on the mac by far. Just don't register it all u get is a little box that pops up every now and then
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