sharing music from external harddisk
 

i've been using limewire for some years and always shared my music. Unfortunately i deleted my shared folder and don't see how to repair this. I know there are many threads on sharing in general, but i did not find an answer to my problem. All my music is stored on an external lacie harddisk. I don't want the originals on my macdisk, so i made an alias of my music-file and put the alias in the shared folder. Doesn't work. No files show up in the limewire library and limewire tells me no files are shared.
I run limewire pro 3.8.5 on an imac G4.
Can someone tell me how to act?

You're right that the aliases won't work, but you probably read about using the LW Library file menu to choose "Add Folder to Share" to select the folder on your external disk. Didn't this work?

The new files will take a fair bit of time to load (getting 'hashed') the first time (or if the the drive was disconnected when LW starts up).

Cheers --sorry if this isn't what you were asking.