Help Recover Download.dat
 

Hi folks,

I can handle all kinds of internet hiccups, but there is nothing more frustrating than booting up Limewire, only to find that all of your pending download requests have vaporized from Limewire.

I have heard a bit of chatter about the searches not being lost...but rather that they are in the download.dat file (which I have found in the incomplete folder)

My question is......how do I restore this. Don't leave any steps out or assume that I'll know what you are talking about. Go ahead....spoon-feed me. I am sure that I will not be the only one who wants to cut through the techno-babble and learn a step-by-step restoration lesson. It would certainly save me a lot of anguish, so any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Matt

It is impossible to recover a downloads.dat file.

Hey there,

Thanks for responding Taliban. So do you happen to know why my pending downloads have vanished? I used to think that it was because my computer would lock-up....thereby losing everything that I was hoping to download, but the last time that it happened, Limewire was off, and the computer shut down okay....but then Limewire was wiped of all of my queue, after all of that careful searching.

Really can't complan too much, as it's a freebie, and I am largely happy with the results that I do get MOST of the time, but occasioally I have hunted MONTHS for a particular song/mix to appear after MUCH searching. I finally find it again, and then <poof!> my downloads vanish. A trifle frustrating.

Could it be that I have too many songs/files awaiting download? I have had the same thing happen to me with Gnotella.

Any advice would be welcome.

Cheere,

Matt