So if your account has your full name, & your ISP allocates IP addresses by location (as most do) these two bits of information MAY be enough to trace you, NOT GOOD.Ģ) Long Path: WinMX Can only handle filenames up to a certain length and the path counts, often if you try to download something with a longish name you get an error:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\Esmerelda Hermione Bentwhistle\My Documents\My Music\My Live performances at the club\Drunken\Esmerelda Hermione Bentwhistle - Kareoke at the Club - 'There's A Guy Works Down The Chipshop Swears He's Elvis (But He's A Liar and I'm Not Sure About You)'. If you do accidentally or have innocently used it, the quickest fix is to open the WinMX program folder & DELETE library.dat then restart WinMX & begin the sharing process over.īy default WinMX shares the incoming files folder, so you're probably sharing it already, by default this isĬ:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\My Documents\My Music\ and only a few file types.ġ) Security: If anyone browses your shares & click "Show Full Paths" your computer account name is exposed, they see something like:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\Bill Gates\My Documents\My Music\Weird Al - Windows 95 Sucks.mp3 Note: Before we start NEVER use the Scan For Media button, it will share all kinds of shite from all over your pc & make a total mess. ![]() Some of us prefer it, it does allow you to know the shared/unshared status of a file simply by it's location. Sharing files on WinMX is easy to do and doesn't take that much time, that said, on these versions it's more of a chore & takes more maintaining than on 3.54, also the default setup does need some tweaks.
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