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[yogo]

Hey,

I'm new to the forum and to Amule, so this problem might sound a bit funny to you.

In order to preview the files I was downloading (three files, two of them were almost complete), I changed the temporary directory (the one picked up authomatically by Amule... well.. I had the address, but I couldn't localise it manually, there was simply no folder like the one stated in Amule. The Incoming folder was sure okay, but when I went in, I didn't see any files) to another. Then I got a message that I needed to restart Amule. I don't know exactly what "a restart" means, so I just pressed "disconnect", closed Amule and then opened it again and connected myself to the same server again. But right now I don't have ANY transfers, and I cannot, of course, see any files in any of the folders - nor temporary, nor Incoming. Why? Did I loose everything I was downloading in many hours??

[skolnick]

Nope, all the temporary downloads should be in the old temporary folder, and all the completed downloads should be in the old incoming folder (if you changed it also). Amule erases no files when you change the folders, so you should have mistyped the name, or something.

Regards.

[yogo]

Nope, all the temporary downloads should be in the old temporary folder, and all the completed downloads should be in the old incoming folder (if you changed it also). Amule erases no files when you change the folders, so you should have mistyped the name, or something.

Thanks for help, but.. I've checked both the old incoming folder and the new incoming and temporary. I cannot localise the old temporary, I decided to change JUST because I could not find the folder in a place it was supposed to be. Say if you have a folder on C:\Mickey Mouse\donald duck\temp - there was no "donald duck" folder.

I wonder if this can have something to do with that what I read in the wikihelp: By default, aMule stores completed files in ~/.aMule/Incoming but, since ~/.aMule directory is a hidden directory, your file manager might not show it. Make sure you have enabled your file manager to show hidden files.

By default, files being downloaded are placed in ~/.aMule/Temp, so again, this is a hidden directory and the file managed must be configured to show hidden files.

BUT... for the first I have no idea how to configure a file manager (or what a file manager is exactly, is it like the browser, the system, or what??), for the second and maybe most importantly - as I said, the downloads have disappeared from "transfers" window. If I search for them again - the files which I had been downloading the whole night and were almost completed - do not differ in color from other files which I never tried to download. There is no color indicating that the file is or ever was downloaded - that's the weird thing. In precisely the same way "shared files" folder contains NO files (although while I was downloading, I shared the files I was just downloading. 

I've just clicked on those files - the blue stripe clearly shows that I have to download the WHOLE file again, but I just cannot understand how that happened..

[skolnick]

If you are using windows, just configure explorer to show hidden files and folders. And when doing the search, look at the advanced options and check the option to search into hidden and system folders, since by default those folders are not searched.

Regards.