Change Incoming path?
 

How does one change the path used for incoming downloads?

I had a quick shuffle through the settings and couldn't find an option, although there is one for setting the downloaded files path.

You sound like you're refering to a specific program. Which one? This forum caters for many gnutella p2p sharing programs. You should have posted in the specific gnutella program forum section.

Aah my appologies, I was led here from Limewire's homepage ;)

So, I'm using Limewire :)

Yay for the Gnutella Network (hehe).

If you came here via the LW site, then you would have arrived here Limewire Forum sections lol :D

Go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Saving & you can change the location there.
The default downld location is C:\Documents and Settings\"your account name"\Shared

You can also change location of specific media types to downld to. See How to Change download location (click on link) (specific for folders)

That defines the path for completed files, I want to edit the path for incoming files (stored in C:\Incoming be default).

Then you're refering to the incomplete folder. By default, the incomplete folder is always under the same parent directory as the completed downlds folder (dwnld folder generally called "Shared" or whatever you called it.)
But now with the more recent versions of LW 4.9, you can change the final resting place of the downlds.
Probably you'll need to set up such a directory under C:\Incoming & initially change your downld folder to that location. Then after this, you can change the individual media save locations elsewhere. I've never tried to have them all in a different location (different directory) from the incomplete folder. But you can try it. It'd be nice to know if it works. ;)

Okay, here's my current setup:

Incomplete path: C:\Incoming
Completed path: K:\

This works as-is, and LW isn't saving incompleted files to K: (this would seem to contradict your explanation?).

I notice a C:\Program Files\Limewire\Incomplete folder too, though this has no incompleted files in it. If I remember correctly I set the incompleted path to be C:\Incoming, probably during an initial setup wizard, as this doesn't appear to be configurable in options.

So, I am using a seperate drive for downloads (K:), and would like to save incompleted files to the same drive (K:\Incoming).

How to do this? :-)

Incomplete Folder
 

Mallchin

You can set up your incomplete folder the same way you have set up your complete folder, you just have to go into Tools>Options to tell LW you have made this change.

I have moved my complete and incomplete folders from the default, on the C drive, to my I drive and now to my N drive.

May I also suggest you download and print out the LW manual because the answer to this and other questions you may want answers to are there.



UK Bob

Now I'm getting confused. lol :D Do you want your completed downlds in the same directory as incomplete files or not? I've never tried this. I have changed the location of one of the downld folders to a different location. If you check the 2nd link I gave above, I changed the programs folder to save to the C drive instead of drive G. But all others (audio, music, images & videos) are saving to the G Drive which is also where the incomplete folder is.

It does seem the incomplete folder is still non configurable which is why I suggested you initially choose one location so that the incomplete folder is set up there alongside the downld folder "Shared", & then change the location of each individual folder in the manner I changed one of them.

* But now I've got the impression you want both on the same drive ... so very easy. Just change the main downld location to K & the incomplete folder will be created in the new location. However, you may need to manually move across any old incomplete files. I would suggest you make the change of downld location within LW then close it. Then manually move the incompletes to the new incomplete folder on drive K. It might be due to LW still being open that the incompletes stil going to the same location. LW will not move the incomplete files to the new incomplete folder if you change downld location. You need to do that yourself.

Yes that does seem strange you have incompletes going to a separate location C drive than the completed downlds in drive K. Unless you changed the location of the individual downld folders. I'm still coming to terms with the extra downld location options of the newer LW. The earlier versions didn't allow this. Shared & Incompletes folders were always in the same directory. I'm not in the habit of frequently changing downld location so ... I might be short on help here.

LOL, this just gets more and more confusing, I thought I'd explained it pretty clearly :)

I want incompleted files saved in K:\Incoming and completed files saved in the root of K:\. although K:\Completed would be equally as good.

There is an option to change the completed files folder, but not the incompleted files folder.

I see what your saying about it using the same drive for incompleted files as it does for completed files, but this is not the case, the only place it saves incompleted files is C:\Incoming. I have quit LW and re-started it, as well as downloading new files, but the incompleted files always get saved in C:\Incoming.

If anyone thinks I am able to set the folder for incompleted files please give step-by-step instructions, as the suggestions so far (as far as I can see) are inconclusive.


ukbobboy01: Tools > Options > what? -- there is no option for this in my version :rolleyes:

Mallchin

I understand what you want to to because I have done something similar myself, as stated in my previous post, but I am somewhat stumped by what you have said:Because I have been using LW since version 4.0.5 and I set up my "complete" and "incomplete" folders on my "I" drive back then.

However, as I am at home I have just had the chance to look at my current LW Pro (Ver, 4.9.37) and I cannot find anything in the Tools>options facility to tell LW where you want to put your "Incomplete" folder, even though I am sure it was there in previous versions of LW. How else could I have moved this folder from it's default place to my "I" drive and now (recent past) move my folders to my "N" drive.

I feel that this facility was there before and now it's been updated out.

Maybe one of the boffins can confirm or deny this.



UK Bob

I obviously hadn't refreshed my page because I missed ukbobboy01's response. Likewise, I swapped my downld location from C to G I think it is. And both incomplete & complete files are there. But I don't think I had many if any incompletes at the time I made the change. Which is why I can't confirm on the practice here. I believe I quit LW after making the change & moved any files left in the older incomplete to the newer one. But my memory is a bit vague here.

ukbobboy01 did you move any of your incomplete files from the older location to the newer one? It certainly does seem the incomplete folder is as it were, under the same directory as the completed downlds. As suggested, there may be a way to go around this but that's not what mallchin wants to do (which is what I mistakenly thought he initially wanted to do.)

I've just installed LW onto my fresh Windows setup and set it to save completed files to D:\P2P, it automagically created and is saving incompleted files in D:\Incoming.

It would appear the incompleted directory is not configurable, and default is to save them on the same partition as the completed files folder.

It would be good if I could change where the incompleted files are stored (D:\Incoming isn't ideal), but after my little shuffle around and re-install I have plenty of space, so it isn't so much of an issue as it once was.

Thanks for your help with this guys, I think we can safely say the new version of LW doesn't have an option to configure where incompleted files are stored hehe. Oh well, case closed :)

Cheers!

You can't configure where your incomplete goes, but you can change the location of your specific media downld folders. I haven't tried to move them all ... just one (2 actually). It seems to work fine ... the document type of iles saves on a different partition to the incomplete & 'other' saved file folder. As did programs when I tried it.

you wanted to save both on same partition .. no major issue, but not whilst you're stilll using LW. You'd need to re-launch LW.

Moving Folders
 

LOTR

Just seen your post:

It seems obvious now that you cannot configure the "Incomplete" folder independently of the "Complete" folder, whereas you can move the "Complete" folder to anywhere you like.

As mentioned by LOTR, the “Complete” folder itself can be configured further to store different types of files in different sub-directories. However, the “Incomplete” folder has to be in the same directory as the (main) "Complete" folder.

Live and learn.



UK Bob

ukbobboy01:

The incompleted & completed folders can exist on seperate drives and/or in seperate folders, there's no restriction on them being in the same folder.

It'd just be nice to set where incompleted files go. It just seems plain daft this is not configurable.

Hmm!?!