Step-by-Step eMule Setup

[jpf]

I just clicked on the name of the link at home while controlling my son's PC via Anydesk

I have never remotely accessed another computer, but surely all bets go out the window (Windows®?) doing that. There are too many variables to factor in and test when it turns out that something does not work. Hands-on access to the device being tested is how I would have to do it. Otherwise, the "test" is to see how well the remote access works.

Yesterday I tested it on the real PC (not via remote control) and the behavior is the same while using remote control.

Woohoo! Your post made me so happy: in my own fumbling amateur way, I managed to provide eMule help for a retired IT professional whose experience and knowledge definitely exceeds my own. Cool. It is nice that I can be useful.

Sure you can be proud, however don't overestimate my skills. My job was primarily audio hardware repair and design. I'm mostly self-learned on computer science. I took a crash course on Basic programming and actually did most of the VB and C programming at the radio station but operating system, networking and internet were mostly a "read the manual and follow instructions" thing.

This seems to indicate that in some small but important way, ancient eMule might be different than some of the other software beasties out there. Or at the very least, keeping it working with updated browsers just might continue to be an issue. Maybe the problem is that browsers change things that do not need to be changed? (As in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".)

I agree, and even more: I suspect OS designers are purposedly making old apps useless under the false excuse of security issues. I still use Windows XP for most everything except (since december 2021) browsing the internet, and It's flashing fast. The XP PC is still always connected to internet since I need to remote control it. I never had an antivirus and never had a virus and the like infection.

If you have not read through it already, if you are interested you might want to take a look at the previously-linked thread. With your technical background I am sure you can understand the issues involved:
ed2k link no longer work in Google Chrome AND aMule

I'm not into internet browsers, so my opinion may be useless, but the issue doesn't seem related to the mentioned Manifest V2 deprecation, which should only affect extensions.

[Night457]

The limited computer science I know has been used for accessing my entertainment. My only experience with IT was to stay on very good terms with the IT guys at work so that they would be willing to whack recalcitrant computers when needed.

I suspect OS designers are purposedly making old apps useless under the false excuse of security issues.

I am glad that *I* am not the only one paranoid suspicious about this.

[R.R.K]

Thanks: Night457, I`ll try that..

[Caleyunior]

I regretted having permanently deleted eMule, now I thought about it and downloaded it, with the version "v0.70b", I followed the guide step by step, and this time I did not have a single problem, now I have it completely connected but with my low ID.
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[ghost]

Glad to hear that it is working for you now.

Happy downloading.

[movielover412]

this is one of the hardest thing i have ever done and i still can not do this, I think I have a better chance of sending a rocket into space land on the moon gather some moon rocks and return home keeping the rocket reusable. Without some help from someone that knows how to do this, without short cuts that can dumb it down to where the average Joe like me can do this. I have tried to look this up on the utube and only found this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISEnJix2Gho&t=50s

I am still stuck on doing this i think turned off my firewall and tried to make a test and still nothing no idea on how to do this. Having pictures that would help dumbing thing down a lot. This would make everyone lives a bit easier or a faceless introduction video on utube without shortcuts cuts. This war we can just fallow along and do it. This would help out a lot please and thanks, or just some help

[mimzy]

If you are OK with lowID (roughly speaking, downloading, but no uploading), I think it should work pretty much out of the box. I suggest to try that first and try to download some of the well-shared files (i.e. from Ghost) and try to fight for highID later. Probably most users cannot get highID without VPN nowadays; in fact even only few VPNs still support that. There is too much noise in this thread IMO.

[Night457]

Mimzy is right. 5.5 years ago I installed eMule without following any instructions, just to see if anything worked at all. It did, and I only had LowID. It was only later that I looked into changing settings and tweaking the router to get HighID. My VPN that gave me HighID for the last few years is now expired, so I am back to LowID. I will survive.

[movielover412]

Mimzy is right. 5.5 years ago I installed eMule without following any instructions, just to see if anything worked at all. It did, and I only had LowID. It was only later that I looked into changing settings and tweaking the router to get HighID. My VPN that gave me HighID for the last few years is now expired, so I am back to LowID. I will survive.

I did delete it and reinstall it and i came back and tried to download a copies of pretty baby, it did open emule but that is all it did nothing after. Not to sure if they are dead ones? And just wondering what the difference is between emule and something like utorrent? the most i know how to do on a computer in just download or watch things, or very basic movie editing compared to you guys. Also Night457 you may be "self taught" but you're very intelligent, and make a lot of this sound so easy with Ghost and the other here.

[Night457]

Don't overestimate me. It is just that I do not have much patience reading instructions...

The fact that you have figured out "very basic movie editing" is an actual accomplishment, so do not just dismiss it.

Emule and torrenting are different kinds of peer-to-peer sharing. I do not know the exact differences which would be technical and probably hurt our heads to read.

Ghost has released so many improvements to Pretty Baby over the years that he is probably only sharing his most recent version or two. I do not know about the versions released by others. By clicking the "Show posts with ed2k links" at the top of the Pretty Baby thread I quickly reduced 43 pages to 2 pages and worked backwards from the end. This is the version that ghost is probably most pleased with, and still sharing along with other people:
viewtopic.php?p=88407#p88407
If you try that one and it does nothing, you can take a screenshot of the entire emule window when it is on the "Transfers" tab and I can look at it. I might ask for more pictures after that.