OK on all so far, but the ridiculously named 'accountantese' of "the bottom line" stills says, something is for sure wrong as those files should only be 'hashed' ONCE unless they are altered in some way... Unless I am totally missing the way LimeWire deals with sharing/unsharing 'shared folders'... However, I can't believe anything that negative about LW because if you cannot, for example, 'unshare' a folder (temporarily) without going through the whole 'hashing' process when said folder is again shared, than LW is in serious need of joining the early 21st century !!! This, I do not believe !!!
I say the above bits because that may hint towards some problem with a 'setting' or whatever... But, this 're-hashing' is on every launch...

One question that I think of now... Is the 'hashing' of ALL the files happening at a fairly high-priority, i.e. fairly quickly, or, is the 'hashing' going on WAY in the background and taking an enormous amount of time to actually complete 'hashing' ALL the files ?
Meaning, maybe it isn't re-starting the 'hashing', but slowly 'finishing' it...

I know it's a weekend and all, but it seems a little strange to me that someone else has not come in with, "Hey, I've got the same problem and..."

Wonder what trap_jaw4 thinks about this one... ???

Apologies.. Rambling here a bit in thinking about it all... but, the basics to refresh... argue away about this, btw !!!...

Not in any necessary order of priority -

Too many files are being shared at once... Honestly !

Whatever iTunes 'Library Bank' files there may be should NOT affect anything with LW... UNLESS they are also being selected for sharing...

The 'type' of files has no actual bearing on the 'hashing problems'...
(they could just as well be Serbo-Croat cook book files in TomeRaider format !)
No ?

There is absolutely no need at all to 'mess about with' anyhting to do with iTunes and the files used for iTunes...
The problem lies with either LW or the manner in which LW is set up in this particular case...

And, last for now... davideves is just another one of those typical criminally-minded types who routinely does searches for things such as "60's" and the like... You know, Peerless, he's just like us !!!!!!!!!