The Bear Stole My Files!

[Jiggz99]

I don't know what happened, but one of my friends had 400 or so files, and one day she downloaded a song and everything disappeared. The thing is she was using Bearshare not Bearshare lite, and her directory was C:/bearshare, when she would dl files, they would finish, but they wouldnt appear! she had to change her directory and then the files she started to dl would show up. Now logic would say they were deleted by a virus or error or something! however, her winamp still reads her 400 odd files that she had, but the directory is still empty. Can anyone help????


Thanks,
Jiggz

[TheGateKeeper]

Tell your friend not to use Bearshare, it full of issue and has tons of adware and soyware, I wouldn't even risk using their so called "lite" version.

Switch to Ares, or BT!

[PhR34x0r]

switching programs doesnt solve his problem ! i guess since winamp still plays the files they are still in this "empty"-folder but they're just hidden. so rightclick the folder and uncheck the hidden attribute and in the new dialog that pops up check "all files and subdirectorys".

[shawners]

there not stuck in temp folder??

[infringer]

simpily figure out the directory that winamp is playing the files from and you have your files.

-infringer-

[Jiggz99]

I have checked the hidden files, that is a no go, switching bearshare wont help because the files are still gone, but I dont know why they would have moved to the temp folder, they were complete songs that were in the bearshare folder, and then they up and left... so I dont know

[Miniver]

Just use windows search to find one of the files. It will tell you what directory it is in along with the rest.

[Jiggz99]

I have tried searching for it in the windows explorer, and search, it shows up on neither... could it be a virus?

[Lehk]

as infringer mentioned, go into winamp and look at the file properties for one of the songs, that should lead you to the right directory.

[axxis]

I am a Bearshare and have not had this problem occur on my machine.

I change the folders where my uncompleted and completed folders go to to C:\My Downloads and C:\My Music, respectively.

When I rename the files that I download to a naming convention that I use, I then move those files to a another folder called "Preview", and I have Winamp look off of that folder when I test play my songs.

[truelyme]

You should know that Loudeye, the company responcible for seeding many P2Ps with fake files has come up with a new twist to share. For now found in wmv and wma files, it is a trojan. The files will be licensed files and when it goes to the license site instead of taking you to a purchasing site it will instead load your computer with ads and the trojan. Whether this has had time to work its way into all P2Ps yet, I have no idea. There was a news release that they would indeed be seeding P2Ps with it.

Since licensed files are really not good to share, I would recommend that if you get such protected files that you just delete them instead of attempting to play them. Unless you can remove the DRM that comes with the file, they are of no use to you.

It is very possible that you may have recieved such a file.

[Jiggz99]

I have done what infringer has suggested and thats the thing, it tells me the directory, and when i search for it in that same directory it doesn't exist, yet it still plays my files. Like ive said before, I've tried most if not all obvious answers to this puzzle

[ponduh]

you're FUBAR'ed

[TFoS_Fan]

Ok you may think this mad. But if files are all audio and you really want them u could use program such as totalrecorder to record them off soundcard when playing them in Winamp. Then I suggest getting rid of Bearshare and moving to one of the better p2p progs suggested above.

Hope thats some help!