Why do you think that all mods have to be arrogant? Ok you are a mod on an other board, with other rules, other users etc. I wouldn´t visit a Website where the mods throw oil into the fire instead of being the helpful hand (I know how hard it can be...).
I don´t know where the fun is to reply sarcastic to newbies? As a mod I choose not to reply if I think I have to anwser the same question the 999th time instead of beeing ironic or sarcastic...

I hope I wasn´t to "ironic" and "sarcastic". :p

And welcome to gnutellaforums. :)

Morgwen

No way... you are the best Kath. :)

Morgwen

Mac OSX version 3.5.8 and sharing
 

This appears to be a major glitch in this version. I just went over to OSX and to this version and it is not only sharing from the incomplete folder, but also from the download folder. I have specified a separate folder for uploads to control what gets uploaded, but it appears to ignore this and is uploading from the other folders. I wonder if it is also uploading from other parts of my HD! I've sent in a bug report on this to Limewire.

In addition, everytime I quit Limewire, it fouls up my TCP/IP connection and I have to restart my modem.

Incomplete files are deliberately shared. This speeds up the downloading process as it gives more uploaders for any given file. LimeWire handles the incomplete files specially.

The downloader folder has always been able to be shared. If you do not want it shared, remove it from your list of shared folders. LimeWire currently and always has shared all subdirectories of whatever folder is shared.

Are you saying that you're seeing files being shared that are not within the folder or subfolder of your 'shared' folder or are in the incomplete directory?

Thanks.

I'm saying that I made my shared folder one called shared, while my download folder is a separate file called 'from limewire'. 'from limewire' is NOT shared in the prefs so that I can control what gets uploaded, yet files in that folder are being shared in any case! I even removed all folders from the shared prefs and all the the 'shareable file extentions' and it is still sharing.

It seems to be killing my net connection as well when I quit the program. I find that I have to restart my cable modem when I quit in order to get a connection to the net.

Okay --

So the ONLY item listed in your preferences, in Sharing, under 'Shared Directories' is the 'Shared' folder? And 'From LimeWire' is NOT a subdirectory of Shared?

If you click on the Library, what folders do you see lifted on the left? It should have 'Shared', and 'Incomplete'. Is there an arrow infront of 'Shared'? If you expand it, does it list other folders that are subdirectories?

Are you positive the files from 'From LimeWire' are being shared and its not the files from the Incomplete folder?

Thanks for helping troubleshoot this.

Yes, that is right. only 'shared' was shared...not 'from limewire'. Shared only had 5 files in it, and the ones being uploaded were definitely from incomplete and from 'from limewire'. 'from limewire' is NOT a subdirectory of 'shared'. It is not even on the same part of the HD....one is in the prefs folder, one is outside of the syst folder on the HD proper.

When I click on Library now, only incomplete is there as I've taken away all the shared folders, but it is still sharing files in the 'from limewire' folder.

Note: I just went back and checked, removed the file in question and it was still being shared ...so I went in to the incomplete folder, and there was a partial copy by the same name there, when I deleted that, it seemed to go away....so it may have been just in the incomplete folder. I cannot remember the incomplete folder files being shared earlier.

Incomplete files have been shared since LimeWire version 3.3 (or 3.4, we can't seem to remember). Glad we found the cause of the problem, though.

I will keep my eyes on it, however, just in case. Was afraid it was sharing all over my HD or something. BTW. why is it that some files, which have the same name and same size and are 'the same' don't come up grouped...but as different files? I've been downloading a number of tv episodes for shows I don't get here, and there may be several copies of the same episode/file, often named the same and same files size, but they don't get registered as the same file for downloading purposes. Just curious.

thanks for your quick replies and help.

The most common reason that files are not grouped together despite all outward appearances placing them as 'the same' are that the actual SHA1 hashes are different. LimeWire uses a very secure hashing scheme (very much unlike the insecure Kazaa scheme) that changes even if a single byte in the file differs. The sizes and names be the same, but some type of meta-information within the file may have changed (such as ID3 tags on mp3s, or other information for other files) causing the hash to be different.