RetroShare

[wfe]

I have add over 2000 friends by a xml file, but it appears no one is online. Is there something wrong?

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there may be something wrong with tor service. After adding contacts, the 'outgoing connections' is not green.

[Nikki2012new]

Hi Folks great stuff,

I am learning and just getting started please have patience

[subdream]

When I install a new Linux VM, I'll try my luck with RS & perhaps can help with some of those questions here.

If you happen to end up on Arch Linux and succeed with RS, please give me a hint.

[Iniga]

When I install a new Linux VM, I'll try my luck with RS & perhaps can help with some of those questions here.

If you happen to end up on Arch Linux and succeed with RS, please give me a hint.

Will do (assuming I can get it working 😉 ). It won't be the same distro, but the config should be more or less the same on all. I need to buy new disks first before I can migrate.

[Chloe]

How long does it take to connect with the TOR node?
It says I have 0 friends online and I am currently "offline"
I noticed it takes a bit after launching for everything to become available even though "TOR" shows green and says "OK" so does the Network setting says TOR proxy is green.
Retroshare is greyed out on taskbar when normally it is blue for me being online.

[dhf7b8g]

If you happen to end up on Arch Linux and succeed with RS, please give me a hint.

Your best option is just compiling retroshare from source manually. Many of the available packages are out of date or just broken. 
When I was using arch I had to compile it myself although I have since moved onto other distros for both desktop and server usage so I cant give you exact compile steps but it should be easy enough to copy an existing build file from their repository.

[Like Ra]

If you happen to end up on Arch Linux and succeed with RS, please give me a hint.

What's wrong with this one: https://retroshare.cc/downloads.html#archlinux ?

[Chloe]

I have add over 2000 friends by a xml file, but it appears no one is online. Is there something wrong?

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there may be something wrong with tor service. After adding contacts, the 'outgoing connections' is not green.

Where did you find the XML file?
I am struggling to find friends as well even after adding everyone I can on board exchange and here.

[YouMayDream]

I have add over 2000 friends by a xml file, but it appears no one is online. Is there something wrong?

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there may be something wrong with tor service. After adding contacts, the 'outgoing connections' is not green.

Where did you find the XML file?
I am struggling to find friends as well even after adding everyone I can on board exchange and here.

I think they may be speaking about this thread as well as the thread they link to:

Hello.
Here's a late present for anyone just starting out, or who is starting again from fresh. It's an exported list of 438 certs.
To use them, save them to your computer. Rename the extension from .txt to .xml.
Then in Retroshare, on the Network tab, right click in the left hand list and on the pop up menu choose "import friendlist" and add these three files one at a time. Then you can go through your new list at your leisure and send invites to be friends, etc. from the People tab.
Some details:
This list started off with the active list from 2022 found here https://www.likera.com/forum/mybb/Thread...2#pid57862
I've added all the long type certs which start with CQEGA and the short type certs which start with AB.
I did this from page 88 of this forum up to this post.
As it was a mostly automated process some certs may have not been found. Also there's bound to be some old inactive ones in the list as people make new IDs.
If anyone has a cert which does not start with CQEGA or AB please let me know so I can search for those types too.
If people think it's worth adding those before page 88 let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Attached Files
Retroshare Certs 2024-01-20 Part 01.txt (Size: 171.62 KB )
Retroshare Certs 2024-01-20 Part 02.txt (Size: 172.91 KB )
Retroshare Certs 2024-01-20 Part 03.txt (Size: 167.55 KB )

And remember:
- just stay online, to get friends, both you and your peer must be online
- the peer must allow file sharing
- to make the files visible, option "Directory content is visible to friend nodes" (Files -> My files -> Configure shared directories)
- files are accessible indirectly from other peers (use Files -> Search)

[Like Ra]

And remember:
- just stay online, to get friends, both you and your peer must be online
- the peer must allow file sharing
- to make the files visible, option "Directory content is visible to friend nodes" (Files -> My files -> Configure shared directories)
- files are accessible indirectly from other peers (use Files -> Search)

This, plus:

- keep approving incoming requests in the Activity tab
- keep adding new peers
- keep removing keys, which had not been used longer than .... (use your common sense here, I would say, at least a year) in Network -> Keyring -> Sort by Last used