Shortcuts/Dynamic Links in filelist

[[KUN.NL]mepmuff]

Having several harddisks with shares on them, i keep getting PM's from people complaining that their downloads get stuck, after i moved a directory to keep my shares organized. Not a big problem, but an inconvenience for those users (and me in terms of telling them what to do).

A way to handle this would be some sort of linking in the filelist, or following shortcuts. I searched the RFE tracker and found this request which is closed because following shortcuts could lead to recursive directory listings, so i won't post a request for something like this at the moment.

Q: So why this thread?
A: I'd like to see if we can come up with an idea in which the moving of a shared file won't create such inconvenience, and which would make it easier to create an organized filelist

One idea is to try and do something with the xml in the dcplusplus.xml, which now is:

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- <Share>
  <Directory>C:\SomeMusicDir</Directory> 
  <Directory>D:\SomeOtherMusicDir</Directory> 
  <Directory>D:\SomeMovieMusicDir</Directory> 
</Share>

and allowing a new tag, so we get:

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- <Share>
  <VirtualDirectory>
    <VirtualDirName>Music</VirtualDirName>
    <Directory>C:\SomeMusicDir</Directory> 
    <Directory>D:\SomeOtherMusicDir</Directory> 
  </VirtualDirectory> 
    <Directory>D:\SomeMovieDir</Directory> 
</Share>

which would lead to a filelist where the contents of the 2 musicdirs would be shown as the contents of one folder named Music.

One thing i don't know is if it is possible to encode something like this in the filelist.

Any thoughts?

[mai9]

Yes, this happened to me too. But I am a happy user since v0.242 was introduced. When you open a filelist you can see a button called "match queue", this button will requeue items that are in your queue and in the filelist at the same time.

So, when the guy you download from changes the path, you only have to download his filelist and press 'match queue'. After that DC++ will continue downloading.

Isn't this a better approach?

[[KUN.NL]mepmuff]

Right on.. that match queue feature is quite handy for changed share-dirs. But still, if it possible filelist-wise, an extension to the dcplusplus.xml might pave the way for easier and more organized share-maintenance.

sidenote: i'm the uploader, but at least i'll have an shorter answer to where's that file gone? with the match queue feature