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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: marcelofontenele on March 25, 2006, 10:11:17 AM

Title: Not sharing
Post by: marcelofontenele on March 25, 2006, 10:11:17 AM

Hello all

I'm having this problem. I have some files to share out of amule's incoming dir, so i set them at preferences, the folder icon turns to red in bold font, but at the shared files they won't appear. What's happening? What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help

Marcelo Fontenele
Brazil

Title: Re: Not sharing
Post by: Gerd78 on March 25, 2006, 10:29:10 AM

No. You don't need to add them explicitly because all files in the incoming directory are automatically shared.

Title: Re: Not sharing
Post by: marcelofontenele on March 25, 2006, 10:34:11 AM

Sorry,

But i didn't express myself right, files at incoming are shared, i know, but when i try to share files at other folders though preferences/directories/shared directories it won't share. Why? Anyone having the same problems. I was having this problem at the previous version (2.1.0).

See ya

Title: Re: Not sharing
Post by: Gerd78 on March 25, 2006, 10:40:13 AM

Stop and restart aMule, maybe it helps...

What's in your ~/.aMule/shareddir.dat file? Are the directories there?

Title: Re: Not sharing
Post by: marcelofontenele on March 25, 2006, 10:43:09 AM

About stop and restart, didn't work

[Edit: Please read the forum rules, thank you very much]

Thanks for the interest in help me Gerd78

Marcelo Fontenele
Brazil

Title: Re: Not sharing
Post by: thedude0001 on March 25, 2006, 04:31:58 PM

If you share a new folder amule needs to hash the files in it which can take some time. Is there any log line about new / unknown files?

Title: Re: Not sharing
Post by: ken on April 02, 2006, 10:49:10 AM

Also, if you organize your files in a directory hierarchy, then maybe the directory you tried to share doesn't have any files in it, only subdirectories.  By default, aMule does not share directories recursively.  That is, it shares the files directly inside of the directories you've told it to share, but not files inside of subdirectories of those directories.

To share a directory hierarchy, you have to explicitly share each subdirectory which contains files you want to share.  aMule provides a shortcut to do this: control-click (or right-click) on the icon of a directory to share it and all of its current subdirectories.