I have Limewire 4.60 pro and I found a reference to smart downloading, but can find no preference or reference to it in options or anywhere I have looked. It's my understanding that smart downloading will keep trying the download until it finishes. I get tired of going back to use the force resume over and over.

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If it isn't there then it's for a good reason, the reason being that smart dlds continuously send a request to resume a dld until the request is fulfilled. That can quickly inundate the network with such messages, resulting in an overall speed drop. Not good.
I suggest that you don't force resume your downloads: instead, run an occasional search (launching a search every second will have the same effect as smart dlding. + you can't expect 100000 new sources for your file to pop up the next second) for the same file in hopes that LW picks up new sources.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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