I have two incomplete downloads sitiing in my incomplete file doing nothing. How can I reenable these downloads. Everytime I start LimeWire shouldn't they automatically resume downloading?

Resuming a download can be a tricky thing. LimeWire will not automatically resume for you when you restart. You will need to search for the file you were downloading before. By looking in your library under your incomplete folder, you might see something like this:

Name Type
T-4505182-Kittie - Brackish mp3

You will have to search for this file again using the information in this entry.

From this example, you can see that the complete file size is:
4,505,182 bytes

LW search reports in kilobytes, so it will appear as:
4,505 kb

After the file size comes the name. A dash seperates the file size from the name, so the name of the original file is:
Kittie - Brackish

This is all the information we need:
Name: Kittie - Brackish
Size: 4,505 kb

Now that you have your information, you will search for the file by name once you are well connected to the network. When you find the filename or something close to it, look at its size. If it matches, then select it and click the "Download Any" button. LimeWire should resume from where it left off. I know this is a cumbersome and tedious task, but that's how it is right now. Hopefully, this will change in the future.

And just for the record, I don't like Kittie. This is merely an example. :-)

Nice suggestion from TruStarwarrior

From my 56k dial-up I just got an Incomplete 43MB file to resume, at 58%.

I had closed LimeWire and was forced to Search again an try to match the results with the Incomplete file info. in the Incomplete directory.

I was very happy to see this manual-resume work, but I should point out, I was lucky finding the same file.

The Search results included multiple files with the same-exact-file name, and the file size reported in the incomplete directory, T-43710936, did not match any of the sizes in the Search results. The one that finally matched was 42,686KB.

I had to experiment by downloading each duplicate name, hoping for a connection that suddenly incremented itself past 50%.

Luckily for me, I was able to get to the right GnutellaFourm thread to read TruStarwarrior's post, and had less that 10 names to experiment with, in LimeWire's Search results, before connecting precicely with the previous-source file, and luckily I was able to do all of this before the host of that exact same file went off line or otherwise became unavailable.

It sure would be nice if a <RESUME> button in the Incomplete directory could automate this process, or in the interim, it would help if the Incomplete directory could save file-location info. since Incomplete file size does not reliable match Search results.

Another interesting note:
My download speed improved from around 1 KB/s to 4.9 KB/s after I disconnected then reconnected my dial-up connection.

Sometimes this re-connection boost can really help speed things along. Too bad there is not a way to reset the server from LimeWire's file menu, which might achieve the same effect.

Roger R.
Fullerton, CA

I'm glad you got the resume feature working. :-) It would be nice to have a built in "Import Broken Download feature", but I'm thankful that I can ever resume at all. The import feature would be nice, but it is merely icing (sp?) on the cake. As far as I know, no other client is able to resume like LimeWire does.