Basically there are several ways of going about this. Since version 0.42e an option to to enable/disable autocompletion was added in eMule's preferences and also an option to clear the search history. Choose the one you feel most comfortable with:
- This method disables
autocompletion feature in the search history (doesn't delete)
In eMule's Preferences -> Display you have to option to disable or enable the autocompletion feature to your liking. This will make all previous searches not show up again but the searches are still located in the AC_SearchStrings.dat file in eMule's Config folder. - This method clears
the search history.
In eMule's Preferences -> Display press the "Reset" button located near the "Auto completion" entry. This will delete the search history. - This method clears
the search history.
Place your mouse curser in the search box. While located there press ctrl+delete at the same time and the search history is cleared.
The following methods achieve the same as the ones above by editing eMules settings directly: - This method clears
the search history.
To be done only with eMule shut down!
Navigate to eMule's config folder and open the AC_SearchStrings.dat file with notepad. This is where the search history is saved. Here you can delete all or some of the entries and the search history is cleared. - This method deactivates
the autocompletion.
To be done only with eMule shut down!
Navigate to eMule's config folder and open the preferences.ini file. Search for the UseAutoCompletion=1 entry and write UseAutoCompletion=0 instead (change the 1 to a 0) and close the file. Now the autocompletion is disabled next time you run eMule.