[hkBattousai]

I have a external USB drive, I'm using eMule on that drive since I don't have enough space on C:. My external drive doesn't turn off automatically, so I turn it off by its power switch after shutting of the computer, and turn it on when I start the computer.

The problem is, if I forget to turn on my external drive before starting eMule, eMule automatically resets the 'incoming' and 'shared directory' folder locations without user consent. If you have quite a list of shared directories, it is very annoying to set them up again and again after every forgetfulness.

Can you please find a solution for this?

[pier4r]

hkBattousai, on 30 October 2009 - 08:51 AM, said:

I have a external USB drive, I'm using eMule on that drive since I don't have enough space on C:. My external drive doesn't turn off automatically, so I turn it off by its power switch after shutting of the computer, and turn it on when I start the computer.

The problem is, if I forget to turn on my external drive before starting eMule, eMule automatically resets the 'incoming' and 'shared directory' folder locations without user consent. If you have quite a list of shared directories, it is very annoying to set them up again and again after every forgetfulness.

Can you please find a solution for this?

It's a normal (and good) behaviour. Avoid i/o exceptions.

I have 6 usb-HDDs and i did this:
Share all files on usb-hhds and wait for hash (1-3 days), of course i was disconnect from networks.

After this, switch to shared files tab, sort by folder (or path) and set useless (like setup.exe) or private files to "don't share".

After this hard work, simple you share the whole HDD every time that you forget to turn it on, without any additional settings. Of course this work if you don't delete know_64.met and sharedfiles.met.

This post has been edited by pier4r: 30 October 2009 - 09:46 AM

[GilesBathgate]

Yep I noticed the exact same issue. It is annoying but I just learned to live with it.

[Some Support]

This behaviour is indeed intentional for removable drives. We dont want to check a CD-Rom drive for example on each startup if the once shared directory (CD) has already been removed a long time ago and there might be also some security implications if eMule suddenly starts sharing a USB-stick because you did shared one a long time ago and forgot to remove the share.
Maybe we could add an preference.ini-only setting to disable this.

[hkBattousai]

Some Support, on 03 November 2009 - 03:32 PM, said:

Maybe we could add an preference.ini-only setting to disable this.

That would be great.