Sorry for the delay in replying - I've been out of the country.

I can't remember what the Vuze error message was, and I'd rather not find out just yet - LW does seem to be a little flaky and in the last day or so I've crashed it by running Dosbox (maybe to be expected) and then VLC Media Player (maybe not to be expected). I don't want to load any software that I don't have to right now. What I can remember is that it refused to load the torrent.

What I did was to search for the torrent on other sites. The size may give a hint as to what it was. I found another that seems to have no seeds for the first day, and then a third that is working. So far I'm about 30% through and due to finish in about 14 days.

Moving on, what is the reason for avoiding large downloads? Is it solely the risk of data loss?

M