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davenull

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Control over shared files ?
« on: September 11, 2005, 01:39:09 PM »

Hi,

I was using XDonkey before but, due to many OS X issues with mlnet, i'm considering to switch to aMule.

I've downloaded the 2.0.3 version as i've read the SVN binary has stability problem. For the moment, the download rate are awfully slow (yes, i've read the FAQ about that and my upload rate is 10).

Apart this problem, i've noticed two strange behaviours :

- Pasting a long ed2k link in the ED2K link handler doesn't work when this URL is too long... i get a "invalid ed2k link error".

- which directories are shared is not clear : i want to share, say, /Volumes/Vrac/Shared, so the /, Volumes are marqued red but i don't want the world see contents of my / directory ! I've noticed that aMule pretend i'm sharing "mach", "mack_kernel", "Desktop DB" and "Desktop DF" files : is it normal ?

Anyway, thanks for the good job. I'm still investigating the reason of my slow (not to say null) download rates.

Regards,
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RE: Control over shared files ?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2005, 02:23:41 PM »

Hi,

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- Pasting a long ed2k link in the ED2K link handler doesn't work when this URL is too long... i get a "invalid ed2k link error".

Yes.  This is a known bug.  Sorry.  :(

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- which directories are shared is not clear : i want to share, say, /Volumes/Vrac/Shared, so the /, Volumes are marqued red but i don't want the world see contents of my / directory ! I've noticed that aMule pretend i'm sharing "mach", "mack_kernel", "Desktop DB" and "Desktop DF" files : is it normal ?

OK, to share a directory, navigate to it in the tree control.  Double-click it to share it, and it will turn to bold text to show that it is shared.  Directories which contain, directly or indirectly, a shared directory have a red folder icon.  That does not indicate the directory is shared, only the bold name indicates that.  If you want to share a directory recursively, control-click (or right-click) on its icon -- the folder icon, not the directory name.

To control whether aMule shares hidden files, use the "Share hidden files" checkbox.  However, this only takes into account the unix way of hiding files, which is to use a period as the first letter of the file name.  The Finder takes it upon itself to hide certain files from the user just because the average user doesn't need to see them.  aMule doesn't take that notion of "hidden" into account, so you may see it sharing unexpected files.

Does this explain what you are seeing?  I think the "mach", "mach kernel", "Desktop DB", etc files that you are seeing shared are probably not at the root of your main drive, but are at the root of your Shared volume.  You can see the path of the shared files in the Shared File list, in the Directory Path column, all the way on the right.
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RE: Control over shared files ?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2005, 02:56:42 PM »

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Yes.  This is a known bug.  Sorry.  :(

This problem is not critical, though...

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OK, to share a directory, navigate to it in the tree control.  Double-click it to share it, and it will turn to bold text to show that it is shared.  Directories which contain, directly or indirectly, a shared directory have a red folder icon.  That does not indicate the directory is shared, only the bold name indicates that.

Hence my question : only my /Volumes/Vrac/Shared is bold (directories / , Volumes and Vrac are red) and there is NO mach or mach_kernel in Shared : these files are Mac OS kernel ! They are not hidden (from Unix point of vue) and live in / (i've not ckecked the "Share hidden file box) :

$ ls -l / | grep "^-"
-rw-r--r--     1 jaco  admin    25521 11 sep 14:48 Azureus_Stats.xml
-rw-r--r--     1 root  admin   134656 11 sep 14:44 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r--     1 root  admin   491330  5 sep 02:26 Desktop DF
-rw-r--r--     1 jaco  admin        0  8 mai 22:27 Icon
-r--r--r--      1 root  admin   597984  9 sep 10:46 mach.sym
-rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel  4308960  3 jul 07:28 mach_kernel  

These are the only files in / (all other entries are directories) and these 6 files appears in my shared files !

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Does this explain what you are seeing?  I think the "mach", "mach kernel", "Desktop DB", etc files that you are seeing shared are probably not at the root of your main drive, but are at the root of your Shared volume.  

No, all these files are in / (fortunately... as the kernel has better to stay in it ;) )

[Edit: i've found the solution... / was bold but it's not to easy to notice it... May i suggest to replace this boldization with a distinct symbol : *, or [shared] or whatever ? )
« Last Edit: September 11, 2005, 03:07:36 PM by davenull »
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