files disappear shortly after transfer

[Guest]

I just aquired a new laptop for myself and got the chance to finally setup a
home network with that and my desktop. I wanted to be able to have all my
song files on both my laptop and desktop. so naturally i share my music
folder on my desktop and do a copy of them to my laptop.. sounds easy
enough?? well after a few hours the files that are added to my new laptop
disappear. They still remain on my old PC but have evaporated off my drive on
the laptop (like they were never moved to it at all, even disk space goes
back to full capacity, no trace of any new files).. So then I go and purchase
a crossover cable which works like a charm with XP pro.. however again the
files disappear. I tried to place them in different directories with
different folder names. All gone!! no matter if i copy 10 or 1000. BUT HERE'S
THE KICKER!!! I use musicmatch and it creates a directory for any artist that
you rip from a CD. So if i rip an eminem cd, a folder is created labeled
EMiNEM. Whatever folder I transfer all my music to those directories stay
there (only empty.) WEIRD!!! Pls help. Both systems running XP PRO SP2

 

[Jetro]

Do you have an antivirus program?

 

[Guest]

Yes,
I am running AVG free and windows firewall on both PCs. This might not sound
applicable but does the fact that I leave the shared folder "shared" have
anything to do with it? This has become somewhat of a puzzle to me. I even
tried moving them by burning to a CDRW over and over again. Nuthing seems to
work..