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I know i.m a bit dim, but I never really understood exactly what the options/
sharing/share finished downloads button does? the preamble is ''You can share files that you download to unshared folders'' what does this paradox mean???
also if i tick the box,what happens? if i untick the box what happens? I havn't noticed any difference! I'm still sharing folders that I have loaded into library whether ticked or unticked? so what exactly is happening?
I've been using LWire for awhile now but have never really understood that bit,can anyone explain please.
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It just means that the download is shared after it finishes even if the folder you downloaded it into isn't being shared
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Thanks sleepless for reply,
Two small points on this,if you are 'Browsing' someone, do these files shared to unshared show up? presumably yes? and if one was being uploaded would it show in my upload window.whilst being uploaded?
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Any Ideas Sleepless or anybody?
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I really don't understnd what you're saying in your post, please clarify
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I think this is what he's asking:

I download file xyz into the 'my pictures' folder.

I do not share the 'my pictures' folder, but I have the option ticked to 'share files that I download to unshared folders'.

If someone browses my files, will they see file xyz? And will it show up in the upload window if I am uploading it? I think another question to ask is this: will it appear in my LW Library?
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yes.. or actually I think it shows up under induvidually shared files
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I'm not quite sure that your answer is correct unless you have your entire drive shared.

Let me explain my understanding of how I believe LW works:

First of all, most (careful) people will only share a folder on their drive and not their entire disk. Within that folder LW will download and store the files you select. And within that list of files you can select any number of files that you do not want to share.

However, if you move a file (or files) to a non-shared folder LW will not share those files regardless of whether the "shared attribute" has been turned off or on. So to share those files the folder/directory that they are in must first be "Shared".

Now, you can share any number of files as long as the folder (or folders) that they are in are Shared.

Finally, LW can only browse shared files in shared folders/directories and, of course, you can have any number Shared Folders

At this point, I would like to ask any forum member if their interpretation of "shared files and folders" differ from mine and to reply accordingly.


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Thankyou all, especially ukbobby, who has articulated very clearly what I was trying to get at, I'd often wondered ,before asking this question, why I could be downloading a file from a host, and the file I was downloading didn't appear on the 'Browse' list for that host, so where was it coming from? As above it isnt in the 'Library' (Muhctekdano)It should be?
I then worried that any fully downloaded file would be shared automatically if the 'unshared' button was ticked, which then led me to wonder if any uploads were going on that I couldnt see, ie I could download files that I couldnt see from others? so were they also uploading from me? and so on etc..
It's still an open question, and ukbobby has got the closest yet,interesting.
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Either I misinterpretted this or you did. I thought the original question was whether downloading into an unshared folder whilst having above option ticked would have the downloaded file shared. And unless there have been changes made to later versions of Limewire, they are shared. The folder won't be shared because of that, only the downloaded file.

Isn't this the option being discussed?

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