I've got more than 15,000 images and over 8,000 MP3 files that I would like to share, but my recent experience with trying to share the images directory resulted in LimeWire locking up and my having to discard its .props fiile.

What I want to know is this:

- Does LimeWire keep track of shared files similar to the way OS X does when it performs a Find By Content scan? In other words, does LimeWire start from scratch when it shares files each time it's started or is it clever enough to remember what was shared the previous time and only look for new files?

- What's the limit on sharing? I know LimeWire got up to 11,118 files in my images directory before giving up the ghost.

I suggest you don't share that many files. LimeWire is not able to cope with it, at the moment.

Maybe there is a way of increasing performance, I'll test it...

Nope, - only way to help is, to zip files into an archive. - Honestly, - who downloads pics anyway?

Also honestly - even starting up with about 7600 MP3 Files, which is about 40 GB on my external FireWire disk is too slow to be bearable. I thus share only about 700 files (4GB).

i hope the noxt update of limewire will speed such thing up - i´m sharing over 5000 files

because this people who have such a large amount of mp3´s mostly have the rare ones ...