This list displays all of the files you are sharing.
Right clicking in the list brings up the Shared Files menu.
Files that have been successfully uploaded are drawn in green.
Files that have been requested at least once are drawn in blue.
Files that matched incoming searches are drawn in black, and
those that have never been matched are dimmed. A file
which was shared and is no longer available is drawn in red.
Files become unavailable when you remove a shared directory
containing shared files, when you remove an extension from
the list of shared file types for files you are sharing, when
a shared file is moved or deleted from its shared folder, or
when you rename shared files. The columns are:
Dir |
This is the directory containing the shared file.
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File Name |
The name of the file without the directory component.
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Uploads |
This is the number of times the file was successfully uploaded.
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Requests |
This is the number of times the file was requested for upload.
Web browsers typically request a file a few times to get meta
information before making the actual upload request. Requests
are counted even if the transfer failed or didn't take place.
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Hits |
This is the number of times the file was returned as a search result.
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The number of times a file has been successfully uploaded, requested
for uploading, or returned as a search result is displayed in the
respective column.
When the Watch shared directories option is turned on in the
Sharing Setup page, BearShare will monitor the shared directories
for changes to the files. BearShare knows when files are added,
deleted, moved, renamed, or changed in size. This monitoring process
works even if the shared files are located on a network drive, or
if the files are manipulated outside of BearShare (for example,
in the Windows Explorer).
This monitoring feature allows you to share your Downloads directory.
In this way, files that you download are immediately made available
as shared files when they are completed.
BearShare remembers every file that it sees in a shared directory
during a single run of the program. If the directory is removed from the
list of shared directories, or the list of shared extension is changed,
the files are still remembered, but they are drawn in red to indicate
they are not shared. BearShare will not return these red files as search
results. If the directory is re-added, the file returns to its normal
status. When the program exits the red files will not appear on the
next launch. Renaming a file causes both the old file and the new file
to appear, with the old file drawn in red.
Removing a shared directory from the list does not affect
uploads of files in the directory if they are already in progress.
When the Shared Files list is unsorted, the files are displayed in
the order they are considered for as search results. If the Faster
search results option is set in the Searching Setup page, files
which are returned as search results will move up by one in the
list. The most frequently returned files will move to the top. If
the Better search results option is set, then the entire list will
rotate as the FreePeers Agent cylcles through the shared files.
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