How Many Files Do You Share?

[Wocus]

I'm sharing 3885 files

[Mivaro]

I share about 1400 files, some 1300 of them are mp3's

[Switeck]

Originally posted by JmiF@1 March 2003 - 17:40
I can't believe you are giving people a hard time for sharing a lot of files and allowing others to chose from them.

If the price is that it slows things down for a couple of seconds, then I think that is a small price to pay for people sharing a lot. You are asking them to hide their files from potential downloaders, because sometimes it slows you down for a wee while.

Here's a better solution. Why don't you not select the find more from user option and leave other people to decide what works for them. It might be inconvenient for you but some of us like it, on the basis that if someone is downloading from me we may have similar tastes.

I don't give them a hard time, if a search crashes my computer I *CAN'T* message them. Also these problems can (but seldom does) crash the REMOTE computer as well... and if they're not at their computer at the time, it may stay crashed for hours. Many posters are having trouble with Kazaa due to sharing lots of files. Often their Kazaa uses 100% cpu all the time.

What happens when a find files is done is basically the remote computer stops almost everything and passes a file list. Due to a serious Kazaa (lite and reg) bug, it also glitches up the searcher's computer as well, so if the search goes sour, it's likely to cause Kazaa's GUI to quit refreshing and just turn into a blank window. If you're sharing 1,000 files -- that's probably 100KB of info to send for every find files request. 9 such searches in a minute is more than MOST broadband connections can handle -- and that's even if ALL their bandwidth is used for that task.

Chances are, the more you're trying to download and the more you're sharing, the more often you get find files done to you -- just due to the numbers of connections that are made in your searches and other's searches/downloads from you.

The main thing I'm suggesting is just to remove stuff like thumbs.db, *.kpl files, regular Kazaa installers (they're full of trojans anyhow ), and any DLL files that might be shared. Basically just the files nobody wants.

I can sift through 1,000 files shared by 1 person pretty fast -- but when numbers get much greater than that, coupled with files of series stored in different formats which might have random 1st letters (so you can't sort them by name, type, or size), misnamed and junk files -- finding anything gets REALLY hard for anyone. So even when I find someone with similar tastes, it gets VERY hard to find 1 or a handful of rare files if they're sharing 5,000 files or more.

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by Switeck+2 March 2003 - 16:25--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Switeck @ 2 March 2003 - 16:25)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--JmiF@1 March 2003 - 17:40
I can&#39;t believe you are giving people a hard time for sharing a lot of files and allowing others to chose from them.

If the price is that it slows things down for a couple of seconds, then I think that is a small price to pay for people sharing a lot. You are asking them to hide their files from potential downloaders, because sometimes it slows you down for a wee while.

Here&#39;s a better solution. Why don&#39;t you not select the find more from user option and leave other people to decide what works for them. It might be inconvenient for you but some of us like it, on the basis that if someone is downloading from me we may have similar tastes.

I don&#39;t give them a hard time, if a search crashes my computer I *CAN&#39;T* message them. Also these problems can (but seldom does) crash the REMOTE computer as well... and if they&#39;re not at their computer at the time, it may stay crashed for hours. Many posters are having trouble with Kazaa due to sharing lots of files. Often their Kazaa uses 100% cpu all the time.

What happens when a find files is done is basically the remote computer stops almost everything and passes a file list. Due to a serious Kazaa (lite and reg) bug, it also glitches up the searcher&#39;s computer as well, so if the search goes sour, it&#39;s likely to cause Kazaa&#39;s GUI to quit refreshing and just turn into a blank window. If you&#39;re sharing 1,000 files -- that&#39;s probably 100KB of info to send for every find files request. 9 such searches in a minute is more than MOST broadband connections can handle -- and that&#39;s even if ALL their bandwidth is used for that task.

Chances are, the more you&#39;re trying to download and the more you&#39;re sharing, the more often you get find files done to you -- just due to the numbers of connections that are made in your searches and other&#39;s searches/downloads from you.

The main thing I&#39;m suggesting is just to remove stuff like thumbs.db, *.kpl files, regular Kazaa installers (they&#39;re full of trojans anyhow ), and any DLL files that might be shared. Basically just the files nobody wants.

I can sift through 1,000 files shared by 1 person pretty fast -- but when numbers get much greater than that, coupled with files of series stored in different formats which might have random 1st letters (so you can&#39;t sort them by name, type, or size), misnamed and junk files -- finding anything gets REALLY hard for anyone. So even when I find someone with similar tastes, it gets VERY hard to find 1 or a handful of rare files if they&#39;re sharing 5,000 files or more. [/b][/quote]
Or

Please don&#39;t share lots of pi&#036;h.

[Genius]

149 files or 22Gb
Mainly DVD rips.

[south-paw]

439 files, or about half my 20Gb HD...lookin forward to addin a 60Gb HD soon, and leaving 20Gb drive as shared folder.

[Kokanee]

I am sharing 430 files right now, most of them are MP3&#39;s. Very few software titles.

[bigphilm]

9963 file including apps,games,movies + mp3`s totaling 30Gig

[Dustin Timberleg]

I only have a dial up connection so I don&#39;t share big files but I have found that cd sleeves are popular so I share all that I download. I would ask people to scan their cd covers and make them available as I have found that the pc doesn&#39;t work to well after visiting cover sites. Those sites have a lot of shit that can take time to get rid of again. I hope to get broadband soon and then I shall bare all.

[Abdali]

50 files all avi and mpeg 700Meg average size of each movie file over cable modem.