Phex is not waiting for idle time or anything, it was supposed to save the list when a certain size of data was downloaded, but it's not working correct in 2.8.10. Also there are some bigger open file and memory problems that might cause crashes.

Stopping and restarting a download could help... maybe..
What could help more is to add and remove a new dummy download from search, or from an URL via the New Download dialog. Something like http://phex.org should do it.

Phex 2.0 saved the download list differently, but it was generating problems with very large download list. They were taking very long to save and could get corrupted. The code was rewritten and new bugs introduced.

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