> I've found that you can resume incompletes if you're careful about the way you go about it (by initially searching for the sources.) In fact, even better is not to resume them but search for the sources & reselect to dwnld. If it's not the correct one (starting from the % of dwnld it should be) then I delete it from the dwnld window & select another from the search results.

yes i have also figured that's the most likely way of succeeding. i've just been trying that for the last several hours on multiple files -- i've not been able to resume a single one. they've all started off from the start again.

> However, I know for sure that some things that may seem easy and pretty straight-forward are actually really tough to make/do, so doing that may not be as simple as that.

having written limewire (therefore having that level of proframming skills) making reliable resumption without the downloads.dat file would not be a major hurdle.

as far as i can make out lw downloads sequentially from start to finish. in which case it really wouldn't be hard. the pick up point is simply from where it's got to. all that remains is reliably linking the file on the user's hd to the found file which really wouldn't be hard. in fact you could leave that to the user -- a simple open dialogue box to allow the user to do it manually if automatically doing it proves tricky, which i don't think it would. even if it doesn't dl sequentially, in a more random block kind of way, it really wouldn't be that hard i don't think.

any way thanks for responses. i've had enough of lw.