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#1 User is offline   LambdaFox 

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Posted 17 July 2016 - 05:16 AM

Users lose valuable information when two things happen:

1. A file you download is quarantined or deleted by your antivirus.

2. You delete some file whose contents that do not match it's name.

I think it would be at least as helpful as comments on web sites like Pirate Bay or Kickass, if e-mule would provide a way to keep a list / database of hashtags, quality and comments in these cases. ... and share that info when queried ...

Ideally, in the first case, e-mule would auto-detect the deletion and change the file quality to invalid and create a comment that tells which antivirus was so offended by the file. In the interim, create a field in settings where you tell e-mule what your antivirus software is. I think, but I may be wrong, the only easy place to flag an auto-deleted file is in the Transfers tab. Here, if you could right click and choose "Auto Deleted By Antivirus". Now, for this to be helpful, the client would need to keep a database / list of bad hashtags with this information saved. The bad file, should also clear itself out of the list when the user does that.

In the second case, I think just keeping the hashtag and the invalid / fake file quality with the word "mismatch" would be helpful. To make this easier, in the shared files tab, add a right click option "Delete Invalid / Fake". If the user chooses this, add the hashtag, quality value and comment to the database / list.

This is, of course, only a partial solution. It would not capture deletions done with your file manager or the command line. If I had the choice, though, I would use it as a good neighbor. It would be much tighter if e-mule sandboxed new downloads that could only be moved elsewhere by ticking a "good" file status in the e-mule client.

One way to do a sandbox like that would be for e-mule to keep new downloads in an encrypted zip / tar file that only the emule client knows the key to.

I do not think, but may be wrong, that "good" files need to be remembered after deletion from a user's system.

This post has been edited by LambdaFox: 23 July 2016 - 12:56 PM

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#2 User is offline   tHeWiZaRdOfDoS 

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Posted 18 July 2016 - 08:35 AM

Actually, this data is already kept and evaluated in search list: http://www.emule-pro...ic&topic_id=133
Additionally, you can of course add comments to files but the problem is that eMule keeps them to itself unless you are sharing the file and of course you don't want to share an infected/fake file just to tell others that it's a fake.
There also was a fakes.dat project but not many mods support this feature and the list isn't maintained anymore AFAIK.
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Posted 23 July 2016 - 12:52 PM

View PosttHeWiZaRdOfDoS, on 18 July 2016 - 08:35 AM, said:

Actually, this data is already kept and evaluated in search list: http://www.emule-pro...ic&topic_id=133
Additionally, you can of course add comments to files but the problem is that eMule keeps them to itself unless you are sharing the file and of course you don't want to share an infected/fake file just to tell others that it's a fake.
There also was a fakes.dat project but not many mods support this feature and the list isn't maintained anymore AFAIK.


... all of which underscores the reason for my suggestion. LOL
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