I can't say I completely understand the files module. Whatever it is, I'd put it off until D 7.1

If the file module is Boonex's way of handling existing shared media, I can't think of a worse solution. I've said on multipl occassions, that the way to handle existing shared media, would be to run an upgrade script, that reorganizes all the shared files and gives them back to the user that owns them. All ownership info is in the database and can be used to create a directory structure to organize see more all the media according to owner. This directory structure only needs to be created as it is needed. If a member has not uploaded any media, they don't need a directory structure to store it.

For instance, a users existing photos might be moved to:

dolphin7site.com/media/photo_albums/user_xx/default/

where user_xx is the member ID of the existing shared photo owners, and the 'default' subdirectory is the location of the deafult photo album. Then when the user creates other albums, other directories are created such as:

dolphin7site.com/media/photo_albums/user_xx/album1/
dolphin7site.com/media/photo_albums/user_xx/album2/
dolphin7site.com/media/photo_albums/user_xx/album3/
... etc, where album1, album2, & album3, etc, are new albums that the user created.