Search Screen

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Contents 1 Search Result Table 2 Search Filters 2.1 Quick Filter 2.2 Filter Rules 3 See also

Search Result Table

• File

  the name of the file. The folder symbol contains the number of source the file is available from.

• Type

  the file extension

• Size

  the size of the file

• Score

  is a percentage indicating how many of your search terms are in the result filename 100 is all search terms are available, 50 means only one of two terms are in the filename. 0 if none are in the filename, this can be the case if the search term matches a pathname or is spam.

• Rating

  the rating of the file is made generated from various information of the file sources, like has uploaded, is firewalled, is busy uploading. The chance is higher to download a file successfully if the rating is high. But the rating give no indication of the file quality. The rating varies from 0-8.

• Speed

  The estimated upload speed of the fastest source.

• Sharing Host

  The IP address of the host offering this file, or the number of hosts offering the file.

• Vendor

  The Gnutella servent vendor.

• Info

  File information in case provided by the source.

• SHA1

  The SHA1 hash of the file to identify equal files across the network.

Search Filters

Quick Filter

With the quick filter you are able to quickly reduce search results based on various parameters. You can specify terms the file name must or must not contain. You are also able to filter files by type. Additionally you are able to limit the approximate file size you are interested in by defining a minimum and maximum allowed file size.

The filter will be applied automatically a second after your last change.

Filter Rules

Phex comes with 3 predefined filters: An adult filter, a known spam filter and a scam file filter. The third blocks those files which are most often used by spammers or which can easily be used to invade your privacy, for example files ending in .asx or .wma. To see what exactly these predefined filters do, just select "edit" in the filter-rule pane. Then select one of the filters and click the "edit"-button in here. You will now see the rules with which the respective filter was created.

To edit the filter rules click on 'Edit rules...', this will open the Filter Rules Dialog where you can modify existing rules and create your own.

See also

Filtering adult content from searches

Filter System walk-through - HowTo create your own filters.