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Originally posted by indiana_jones
the donkey calculates a lot more exhaustive hash value than the FT clients
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Not just more exhaustive. What all other p2p apps do is hash the first few kb of a file for purposes of resuming, etc, to make sure that the files are the same. I'm sure it works most of the time, but we've all seen corrupt downloads and different files grouped together in Morph before, hmm?
eDonkey NEEDS to hash the entire file. It hashes the file because only byte for byte exact files will be resumed and multisourced. This also allows eDonkey to download 'chunks' (which are individually hashed), a feature much more powerful than the likes of Morpheus have ever seen. So yeah, it will take a while to hash all your files (I myself would not want to go through hashing 120gb off a network share again), but it does only have to do it once, and there's a good reason for that.
BTW, I've never managed to find any music on eDonkey, maybe some very popular tracks are available, but it's mostly for movies and apps/games.