Shoutbox

yesterday i shared a msn sharing folder with my friend. this is my 1st time using sharing folder. she asked me to share some songs with her. then one thing that i worried most is, if she accidentally delete the sharing folder from her computer, does it mean my songs will dissappear from my computer too? forgive my stupidity. so anyone pls answer me?  thanks in advance.

No, they won't be deleted.

When you share files with someone, Messenger actually copies them to a hidden directory.

Your sharing folder is is just a so they can see the files you have on offer. They choose it and it transfers automatically. They can delete local files (their end), but not remote files (your end)

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
Your sharing folder is is just a so they can see the files you have on offer. They choose it and it transfers automatically. They can delete local files (their end), but not remote files (your end)

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When you're using shared folders, anything you copy in the folder is sent to your contact, if your contact deletes a file out of the shared folder, it will be deleted off your machine also. However, it won't delete the source file (The target file which you've copied from another location, INTO the shared folder).

Actually Sean, the files do not get deleted out of your own shared folder, they don't synch like that

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Actually Sean, the files do not get deleted out of your own shared folder, they don't synch like that

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Yes, they do. Test it with a contact, I just tested it with two of my own. That's the point of shared folders .

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Actually Sean, the files do not get deleted out of your own shared folder, they don't synch like that

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I just tested this theory on WLM9 and what sean says is indeed correct, and this is also the expected behavior on WLM 8.5.  Sorry, the file do get deleted .

Whenever I've deleted files from my folder and I change computers or format my pc or something I always get the contacts started sharing folder requests and get all the old files back.

If I delete a file I don't get it sent back whilst I still use that computer but as soon as i switch or format then yeah i do, I've never had it work as you both say it works

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Whenever I've deleted files from my folder and I change computers or format my pc or something I always get the contacts started sharing folder requests and get all the old files back.

If I delete a file I don't get it sent back whilst I still use that computer but as soon as i switch or format then yeah i do, I've never had it work as you both say it works

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When I format my PC this also happens and occionsly when I go onto my sisters PC the sharing folders can also update on there

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Whenever I've deleted files from my folder and I change computers or format my pc or something I always get the contacts started sharing folder requests and get all the old files back.

If I delete a file I don't get it sent back whilst I still use that computer but as soon as i switch or format then yeah i do, I've never had it work as you both say it works

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Well there's a problem with the synch proccess. Are you sure that it's successfully getting synched to your contacts when you delete something? Because that's what point of haing a synched folder, the same files PC2PC (So if you delete something, it's deleted off both ends of the user).