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This is a feature request for the possibility of downloading partial file lists. Excuse me if I post it in the wrong place.

When someone is sharing a huge amount of files their file list becomes insanely big up to the point where you have to increase the value of Maximum file list size in expert options. And sometimes this does not even help.
Secondly, when you have downloaded the huge file list (lets say 100MB) your system hangs for several minutes trying to read the list. And you are not even sure that the client will read it in the end because it might say that the file list is still to big to read.
If the file list is read in, you will end up with a linuxdcpp process that needs huge amounts of RAM and it even forces everything else (up to your X-server) in swap space if you have several large file lists.

Therefore it would also be very nice to unload file lists from RAM when not needed anymore, the client does not re-use it again and it will download it from scratch anyway. Removing the file lists from RAM will improve the possible uptime of the client and is therefore very useful. Furthermore, the file list can always be read from disk again if needed.

To address the issue of partial file lists
Some clients (e.g. airdc++) can read partial file lists but these kind of clients are not available on linux and hog the system trough wine. Therefore, an implementation of a partial file list download option would be very nice. It saves data and lets you download the needed files much faster because you do not need to wait for the completion of the whole file list anymore. Secondly it will remove the need for much RAM and swap space if the transferring party has an enormous file list. Thirdly it improves client uptime without removing non-used file lists from ram which saves a programming step :)

For the rest I really like linuxdcpp, it has helped me a lot over the years so keep up the good work :)

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