Step-by-Step eMule Setup

[Night457]

EDIT: and DreamScape gets his answer in quick while I type an essay.

If someone adds me to their friends, is there a way to know if I got their Friend request?

I do not know. I never saw anything, but maybe nobody wanted me as a Friend even though I consider them my Friends. I never even knew I could request Friend status.

Someone adds me to their friends on my current pc.. A few months later, I get a new pc and had to reinstall emule on the new pc (How would the friends transfer over to my new pc?)

I am going to GUESS this:
You have to start over being someone else's Friend with every new emule installation, because you will appear as a brand-new user even if you use the same name.

If you want to keep OTHER people as your Friend, then before your old computer dies, make a backup copy of your eMule/config folder (it is small) and save it on a flash drive. Keep this up to date occasionally, such as once a month, regularly on the first day. After you install your new emule on your new computer, use this backup config folder to replace the new one while eMule is exited and THEN start it up. That should restore all sorts of information you have stored in it: friends, statistics, and various preferences, all up-to-date as of the time of the last backup. Maybe it even keeps your online eMule identity? I have no idea. Of course you will also have to copy over backup copies of your shared files (much larger) if you want to keep sharing the same files. Or you can start from scratch too, as emule will adjust based on what files are there. If you ONLY want to restore Friends and nothing else old, I THINK that would be the "emfriends" OS/2 Metafile. Again, I am guessing. It looks like my Friends are stored in there. I have installed emule about 3 or 4 times I think, and started fresh each time. Right now I have so many Friends who I have not seen in ages.

It is also a good idea to have the config folder as a backup in case some emule error corrupts the files.

Those who have been emuling 15 or more years longer than I have, please correct anything wrong here.

[Moonee]

Also, how do friends carry over (Like below as an example) -

Someone adds me to their friends on my current pc.. A few months later, I get a new pc and had to reinstall emule on the new pc (How would the friends transfer over to my new pc?)

Friends are stored locally in config files. I transferred mine over when I replaced my computer last year.

AppData\Local\eMule\config

Huh, I randomly typed this in my pc drive to see what would happen and it randomly opened up a browser tab and says this site can't be reached

[Moonee]

EDIT: and DreamScape gets his answer in quick while I type an essay.

If someone adds me to their friends, is there a way to know if I got their Friend request?

I do not know. I never saw anything, but maybe nobody wanted me as a Friend even though I consider them my Friends. I never even knew I could request Friend status.

Ghost said he added me to his friends

I'm just trying to figure out if it actually went through because for some reason I keep getting sent to queue while trying to download a file of his

[DreamScape]

Huh, I randomly typed this in my pc drive to see what would happen and it randomly opened up a browser tab and says this site can't be reached

Sorry, I was typing it quick so I beat Night. AppData is in your user folder - assuming Windows.

I didn't remember the fancy macro at the time nor did I want to paste my username. Here is something you can type in that will magically replace with your username.

%LocalAppData%\emule\config

[Moonee]

oh, that worked this time

[Night457]

EDIT: 3 more posts while I typed! I like DreamScape's fancy macro, which I would never remember nor figure out how to search for it online.

Don't open it in your browser, navigate through the drives and folders in your computer File Explorer.
It may be necessary to do
View>Show>Hidden Items
to make the AppData folder visible, as I think it is Hidden by default in most versions of Windows

Mine happens to be installed in [Code] although you may have installed yours in some other location, possibly [Code] depending on what version of Windows.

(And Night457 is not my actual computer user name!)

See this page for information about files in the config folder:
https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread ... s-and-does

[Moonee]

Nah, I'm having 0 luck trying to find the file in Cdrive

AppData folder doesn't even exist

The only way I can find it is by pasting the text DreamScape posted

[Night457]

You probably have AppData Hidden then and you would have to un-Hidden it. Thankfully DS's shortcut works!

[Moonee]

If I find an emule file through the emule search feature, is it recommended for me to verify it first before posting it on FLM?

[Zorijer]

The config folder may be in eMule's own folder. I think it depends on what you choose during installation? Don't remember.