Now if you'll calm down... you can read my comments or scroll to the bottom for the 'summarised' answer.
> I wanted to write and tell you how displeased I am with your software. > I installed it and it is cumbersome to use. It is being touted as a > P2P app. NOT BY US. You have been, ehm, 'misinformed'. > This does not appear to be the case. Never could figure it > out. I made the BIG mistake of setting my directory to the "My Shared > Folder" for Kazaa. Were you given a warning saying "The folder you have selected is not empty" or similar? You should have been. If not this is a bug. However if you had understood properly what Freenet was (e.g. read the documentation), you would have realised that putting your Freenet datastore inside your "My Shared Folder" was a really silly thing to do. > Well, when I applied that option, I would assume > that all these FUCKING folders your program created moved all my data > into these folders (i.e. a0, a1 etc). Assume? Did you think of actually checking rather than assuming? What might have happened is that Freenet initially moved the files into one of the folders because it didn't know what else to do with them (YOU YOURSELF had told it to use the My Shared Folder, after all). > Well, I opened a few of those > folders after uninstalling your prgram to find empty folders. Well, I > just went ahead and deleted all those folders that your program created > only to find out a minute later that I had deleted 15 FUCKING GIGS of > data. Ok, so you deleted empty folders, and lost 15 gigabytes of data? Clearly you didn't even check to see if those folders were empty. Empty folders don't contain data, remember that? If you right-click a folder in Windows, it will tell you a) How many files are in it b) How much data (in megabytes, gigabytes, etc) is in there If you had BOTHERED TO DO THAT (see, I can shout too), then you would KNOW the folders were not empty. > I was able to restore about 1 gig. A small smattering of the > files I had. Well caught. I have no idea what actually happened in your case, but I can assure that the files in your "My Shared Folder" in Kazaa will NOT have been deleted by Freenet. They may have been moved, and if this is the case it is potentially a bug. What it sounds like happened, is that your 15Gigs of Kazaa'd files were still all there - although Freenet had perhaps moved them into a different folder - and when you deleted all the folders you deleted them as well. You REALLY REALLY should check what you're deleting before you delete it. > I am so FUCKING PISSED off at you and your software. Seems to me like you just deleted a bunch of files you wanted to keep and just lashed out at the first people you came across. There's nothing we can do about it. I'm very sorry that you deleted stuff you wanted to keep, but that's hardly my fault. > I will spread the word that people should not use this software and the > problems it has. FUCK YOU - FUCK YOUR PROGRAM AND FUCK ALL THOSE > LITTLE FOLDERS. Feel free to spread the word but I very much doubt anything you say would be directly attributed to Freenet. Freenet is NOT a "P2P" system (although it can be used as one). If you delete a load of directories without checking what's in them, are you really surprised you lost a load of data? Freenet's datastore is NOT the same as "My Shared Files". It is impossible to find out what is in your datastore, by design (this is to ensure privacy, untraceability, anonymity, etc). If Freenet simply used your "My Shared Files" folder, you would know exactly what was in your datastore, and other people could effectively trace information back to YOU and potentially threaten legal action. If you just wanted to use your "My Shared Files" folder, stick to using Kazaa. Freenet uses its own system, which is DIFFERENT, because Freenet IS NOT KAZAA. The calm answer is: If you want to try again a) Check your facts - Freenet is not a P2P system (who told you that?) b) Put your Freenet data store in a separate folder (e.g. C:\Freenet or G:\Program Files\Freenet\Store or whatever) c) Don't put your Freenet data store in My Shared Folder (if you want you could put it into a subdirectory like My Shared Folder\Freenet or My Shared Folder\DataStore or similar, but it really doesn't make sense to share a Freenet data store since it will only actually work on your own computer, and for anyone else to access it both you and they must be running Freenet) The less calm answer is: Next time I accidentally delete some files I didn't mean to, I'm going to email you and say FUCK YOU, see how you like it. dave == THE AUTHOR OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT DIRECTLY AFFILIATED WITH FREENETPROJECT.ORG AND THIS EMAIL CONTAINS PERSONAL OPINIONS WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT REFLECT THE COLLECTIVE OPINIONS OR MOTIVES OF THOSE PEOPLE BEHIND THE "FREENET" SOFTWARE _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
