kmldonkey downloads disappearing

[Donatas Glodenis]

I have a strange new problem after upgrade from kubuntu 5.4 to kubuntu
5.10 (kde 3.4.2 > kde 3.4.3): the files that I downloaded via Kmldonkey
(edonkey2000 network) do not go into ~/.kmldonkey/incoming - they
simply disappear. They no longer appear in the downloads list of
kmldonkey, but they are not in either temp (jugding by the number of
files that should be there - since filenames are not recognizable) or
incoming folders either. they do, however, appear on the list of
uploads of Kmldonkey. I tried to do searches by exact name with kfind,
to no avail.

I have a
~/.kmldonkey/
special dir for all kmldonkey files with subdirs
~/.kmldonkey/incoming
~/.kmldonkey/searches
~/.kmldonkey/temp

The incoming files used to go to incoming, but they no longer do. The files
in incoming also do not appear in the downloads view... After a new fresh clean install the
incoming dir is not even created, and the downloaded files still disappear.

The files that I have downloaded fully and that have disappeared (I did
search, and it turned in nothing) DO APPEAR in the Uploads view of
KMldonkey. But, as I said, I CANNOT FIND THEM IN ANY WAY AT MY DISPOSAL.

[Donatas Glodenis (dgvirtual)]

OK, so I did find them finally. they started to go to one of the shared directories, that was on another file system, therefore I did not locate those via kfind.

I still don't know why they changed the place where they would go, and I did not take care to have the backup of the config files, both before and after the upgrade (I did quite a lot of experimenting with kmldonkey since then). Therefore I cannot help with solving this problem, and since there is no one having it (or no one has joined this bug report), I would recommend to close it as unconfirmed.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Closing per request of reporter.

Thank you for reporting this bug.

[BigM (bigm-nick)]

Hi folks
I am having the same problem as above, I am using KMLdonkey and I dont know where my downloads are going although they do show up in the uploads view. I only have one file system, however.
I am new to KMLdonkey and ubuntu and dont know how to fix this problem. This is originally an old post so hopefully someone has found the solution to this problemby now.

[BigM (bigm-nick)]

PS Im using ubuntu 9.10
KMLdonkey 2.0.5
KDE 4.3.2

Thanks in advance.

[BigM (bigm-nick)]

OK folks, I too have found the location of the downloaded files. I found them by chance searching my file system (hard drive). This was the location they were in
/var/lib/mldonkey/incoming/files

It was unreasonably hard to locate these files. KMLdonkey is epitomising 'user unfriendly' at the moment.

[Christian Mangold (neversfelde)]

I think this is not a problem with kmldonkey itself. The incoming path is specified in the configuration of mldonkey-server.

[Mehdi (mehdid)]

I've never used kmldonkey. The configuration file of mldonkey-server says something like "incoming file should go there" and they effectively go in that place. Is that a bug ? My guess is: it's not! I don't know why do you say that there is a bug in mldonkey when there is not. If files changed from one place to another (when using kmldonkey), then ask kmldonkey why.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Does this occur in Lucid?