pensterspinster,

I just checked the forum now to append to my request for solving this same problem. A few times in the past a solution was to back up, perhaps 2 to 4 times per session, the download.dat and download.bak files in the incomplete folder to another one or two folders concurrently.

I used to have frequent crashes with limewire, and would have many files that were almost complete, files from 350MB to 700MB and more, several at once almost complete, only to have them all go back to zero once again after a crash or even after a good and regular shutdown. More often than not transferring copies of the saved download files, copied at the very end of a safely ended previous session would do the trick.

Today, that did not work. Not the last saved download.dat, nor the one prior to it. EVERYTHING was reset to zero, EVERYTHING, no matter which previously saved download I installed for each reboot of limewire, yet there was no poor nor improper prior downloads or shutting down of der pooter, nor any deleted files, whether manually nor automatically.

Just now, prior to my current startup of der pooter and limewire, I had 12 large files within the range mentioned above and larger, at from 87% to 98% completed, and anticipating completion in less than an hour of my current startup. NOOOWWWWW, I must wait another 5 to 20 days just to get them as downloaded as they were before this limewire dysfunction!!!!!

This is
THE MOST ENPISSENATING DYSFUNCTION OF limewire!!!!!! Soviet Quality. I'm sure a competent savvy attentive software developer can, and will, solve this garishly intolerable dysfunction of limewire.

Limewire will have become a far better software once that dysfunction is solved.