i noticed the same thing, i downloaded a 7.3gb file, and it was only downloading for a minute, and when i checked the properties on the file, it said it was like 7.2gb, almost as big as the file was supposed to be when complete, but the download didn't even say it was 1% complete. i went back to check it later, and the file was still 7.2gb, it said it had not been accessed and modified since the night before, and yet limewire said it had jumped to 22% complete overnight.

how can it be that the file had not been touched (according to windows Properties on that file) since a minute after download began, it went from 0% complete to 22%, and yet it was at 7.2gb filesize the whole time?

i wonder... is it all part of the evil plan to get us to upload to "limewire pro"? do they deliberately delay the completion of the download in order to increase your frustration at the program so you will upgrade for the 'faster' downloads?

of course, it could be as someone else said, and the file is artificially large to take up space until the download completes, but one would think that the partial file would have been altered in 10 hours, that in going from 0% to 22%, that 22% would have been applied to the incomplete file, thus the file properties would reflect that the file had been altered as recently as when the progress went from 21% to 22%.

or am i missing something?