hi all,

it used to happen in the past that sometimes when i used to start limewire, it would give me a prompt, 'sorry but limewire could not start your old downloads' meaning the files that i was downloading would be left in the middle. then the download section would be wiped clean, no record of the 91% progress of the file i was downloading.

a few days ago, i got a new laptop with windows vista. i copied every last thing from the desktop, including the limewire folder from program files. after installing limewire pro on windows vista, i chose the same folder on my USB drive for saving files. limewire started and gave me the prompt that i didnt have permissions to write to that folder and wiped my downloads clean.

i tried fixing, got me administrator rights, reinstalled limewire pro but nothing happened. i made the mistake i guess of accidentally replacing the downloads.dat file with the downloads.dat file of the newly installed limewire.

is there anyway to recover those downloads and continue?

sorry for the novel but i thought i'd explain the whole problem.

stay happy!