Gnutella Forums - download resumption problems

My general complaint with the software is that it doesn't seem to be very good at finding new sources of a download after the download has stalled. Here is an example from last night.

I was downloading an old **EDIT** movie trailer. About half way through (19 meg file) it stalled. Okay no big deal, I let it sit the entire night supposedly searching for more sources and in the morning the download still hasn't progressed. So I do a search for the trailer. Immediately about 20 sources pop-up. I let those results sit there for a while, and dissapointingly my half complete file does not begin to use these files to connect (This is my first complaint... search results should be monitered to see if they match any incomplete downloads). Then I try to download the trailer from the search results. LimeWire tells me that it can't download it because it is already downloading. Terrific I think, but I let it sit for a little while longer and still it doesn't use the search results to complete the download. So finally, I cancel the half finished download so that I can click on the new search results. This works, and much to my delight the file doesn't start again from scratch but begins where it had left off last night, about half way through.

To conclude my problems are that the searches throughout the night were not able to find any files to complete even though when I did a search in the morning I immediately found 20 matches. The second problem is that when I did my search it didn't notice that the results matched the file I was already downloading. My final problem is that even when I double-clicked on the result it didn't force it to start connecting to the new sources to finish the download until after I remove the half-finished download from the list.

By the way this was all done with LimeWire 2.5.3.

-Charles McNulty