>I am trying the new beta, although it is not showing me how many files I am sharing. It should say 608 but next to the green dot, there is no number listed.

hi sonnet -- did you ever get this fixed? version 2.8 has changed the display mechanism slightly by showing "sharing shared / total" [where shared & total are numbers] when its still hashing, and the library displays the extra files that aren't hashed in red. if you go into the library, do you see files that are either red or black? i _think_ i've seen the number disappear before when java doesn't have enough room to display the whole label. try making the width of your program wider?...