Problems adding a new shared folder...
 

My Limewire shared folder (by default) is on my C drive where I have very little free space available. I have an external Maxtor drive that I would like to use as my shared drive but everytime I try to add a shared folder, Limewire locks up my entire computer and the only way to regain control of it is to turn the computer off and then back on. Has anyone else ever had this problem trying to add a shared folder?

The only reference I can think of right now is this one. It still isn't solved but you could try some of the fixes suggested. Read the whole thread and decide for yourself. His problems are far worse than yours though

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...hlight=default

I had already read that thread. No help there. But thanks anyhow.

Limewire on an external drive.
 

MrPeanut58

I have my LW shared folder on an external drive, my N:\ drive, without any problem as such. This is how I do it:

1) Create a folder/directory on your external drive (I called mine "Limewire")

2) Create two sub-folders under Limewire called "Shared" and "Incomplete".

3) Go into LW's Option > Tools and register that your shared file is now (in my case) "N:\Limewire\Shared". Limewire will then do the rest, i.e. auto find your new "Incomplete" folder, etc.

If your LW continues to crash after this then you have a technical problem.



UK Bob

I too have never had a problems adding a shared folder, but have had 100% CPU issues once. At that time I downgraded but when upgradíng again my CPU problem was gone.

I don't know till this day what fixed it, might have just been a bad install since I have this bad habit of ignoring the message about turning off all other programs before installing something.

I always do clean installs though no matter what program it is.

As soon as I click "Add" (to add another shared folder), my computer freezes. Should I try removing the default shared folder first?

Roughly how many files are you sharing? There's 2 different techniques to adding shared folder. 1. Tools>Options>Sharing &
2. Library window > File menu > Add shared folder.

I have 51 files (mp3 files) in the LimeWire Shared folder on my boot drive. There are close to 10000 files (mp3, mpg, avi divX, wmv) on the external drive that I am trying to share. This morning I looked for a LimeWire INI file that I could edit with NotePad so I could add the external drive shared folder there but couldn't fine one. I have tried both techniques to add a shared folder as you suggested with identical lock ups on both attempts. I feel badly about scraping LimeWire as I already paid for the PRO version. Thanks for your response.

Mr. Peanut

I have several external drives. One of them, the 1st one I often had problems with & LW didn't seem to work with it very well at all. Nobody seemed to upload from it & everytime I opened LW I'd need to re-add it. But that was a 'lemon' of a drive. The others are better. It would also cause some freezing for another p2p program I used. I presume your drive is USB2 or FW400/800 & nothing slower.

I have 3 firewire external drives all at 80GB by Maxtor, one USB drive at 500 GB by LaCie and one 20 GB firewire drive by BUSLink. I wonder if my problem has something to do with JAVA as described in one of the other posts in this forum. I see a lot of JAVA JAR files in the Limewire folder.

Java is generally the root of all evil for problems in some way or another! lol :D Seriously, java is the reknown internet design medium but it does have its problems. I should hope you're using at least Java 1.5

BTW why not try try adding the external drives in part. Not from the root level & not from the main folders. Add them from the sub-folders within so you're adding them bit by bit. It may take a while but it seems it may be overwhelming LW as it is. Start with one of the smaller content folders. If that adds ok, then add more folders. This may even mean you need to separate some of the files into sub-folders if you have too many files in each folder. Start with adding a folder with just a small no. then work your way up.

Mr. Peanut

It could be that you are asking LW to do too much, i.e. having multiple shared folders on different drives, although this is theoretically possible it could be straining resources on your PC.

May I suggest the following in windows explorer:

1) Only have one shared and one incomplete folder but have them on one of your external drives only, e.g. the Lacie 500GB.

2) Create named sub-folders under the main shared folder, that way LW will see primarily only one shared and one incomplete folder.

3) Copy and paste all files into your new shared folder, at this stage you can also copy and paste MP3s, video files, etc, into the named sub-folders as well.

4) Run LW and use Open > Tools > Sharing and update LW accordingly.

Remember that you are replacing your "Shared" folder on your C:\ drive with a "shared" folder on an external drive, and not adding additional shared folders.

This, hopefully, should now work (as it did for me).


UK Bob

Are you by any chance trying to share all 10000 files at the same time ?

I have a feeling that this could very well freeze up Limewire. It will need to hash all those files. I remember adding 3000 once and it made my PC useless for more than an hour.

try just adding some small folder on that drive and see if that works. Maybe like 10-20 songs

When I click the Add button, the computer freezes. I don't even get the opportunity to choose a drive or folder. UKBOBBY...you're saying remove the default shared folder first (before I try clicking "Add")? I haven't tried that yet.

Nobody has added to this thread in 6 days. I'm running out of ideas here! Come on...there has to be somebody that knows how to solve this stupid problem!

You can remove folders & choose files to be unshared via the LW Library window. Right-click the folder or file & choose to share or not share. If they aren't being shared they will be red in colour. That's the 1st part. After all folders are unshared, then you can do as suggested by the others. ;)