Hi Lord of the Rings,
Thanks for your quick response to my query.
In LW prefs, I currently do not have the Download Sharing / Share Finished Downloads box ticked !
I have been a LW user since day 1 of your application being born, and I have experienced no problems in the past.
To reiterate, the sharing problem became evident after LW version 4.14.....the version I am now having to use to overcome stated annoyance !
One thing that may be of interest to you is that I have the same prefs set-up in FrostWire, and no such problem exists there.