Highnumbers,
What Hell is talking about are ghost files. Its quite simple really.
It only happens to secondary users on WinMX. WinMX is a
decentralized network. There is no central server that holds your files, secondary users connect to 'supernodes' aka Primary users and those primary users hold a list of that secondary users shared files. When a request comes for your Browsable files, sometimes very rarely, the primary will accidently include files that are not actually on your system but are in fact on another secondary users system. They are often japanese or porn files and the 'tell all' of knowing what they are is usually simple. Click the 'Show Full Paths' button on the browse, if the drive letters and path are radically different then the other shared files (normal looking ones) on the browse its usually a ghosting problem and a bad primary connection.
Cure: restart your WinMX, get a new primary to connect to and whala.. the files are gone. Hence the name ghost files.
Now.. that all said I in no way think this is your problem.. after all it wont ghost perfect matching copies of files you already have. So here is what I suggest you check if this happens again. Go to your Library screen and make sure you dont have some folders shared twice. Its really easy to do with WinMX v3.54 because of its Library structure. When you add a folder to share it has ticked by default 'Include Sub Folders'.. many folks dont notice this and continue on sharing folders inside folders already shared just like you had to do on v3.53. Its simple to check.. enter a chat room and browse yourself .. you'll see mulitples of the same files shared. Its also easy to fix.. reshare the folders and when you do.. untick that subfolders box.
So now .. I dont believe really and I believe you asked them and they didnt know.. but Most have many many files they have set to auto find sources. So if your strickly using WinMX Peer Networks and not opennap, I feel they may have tried to download more then one copy because you had more then one shared on a few items. Which you now have fixed it would seem with your reinstall.
If you are talking about OpenNap its a whole nother ball game really. When you join more then one OpenNap network, there is a good chance that users searching for files will also be on those networks. When they do a search for 'a' file the results will come up with that file listed on all the Nap networks your on. When they click to download it, that magical thing we all love to see when choosing a file ... the others named the same turn yellow (meaning matching results) and the newer users on Open nap think this will get them the files faster, they are actually requesting to download the same file from each of the servers they and you are on together and will wind up with multiples of the same file.
I hope this helps you understand this issue and anyone else in the future that may want to know or have this same problem.
Ok you posted while i was .. so let me address that mismatch issue too. If users are getting that on your files its usually on thier end. The best fix is to Right click the file while its red, choose trim 10K, do this about five times or until the file will resume, often with these you can get another problem.. you've trimmed enough off for it to think its resumming .. the bandwidth will say 0.00 on them.. and not move.. this just means to keep trimming until they act normal.
Basically on thier end, the file didnt get to save the 'this is were we left off data' when they shut down winmx or something, and you need to trim it back to the last time it saved its place on the file.
