99% Download Changes to 45%

Tufty · #1 (**permalink**) April 1st, 2005

Hello
Just installed Limewire last week, everything working well & had some good downloads - but just one strange thing happening occasionaly. I was downloading a large file, left my PC running all night and found that I had completed 99% the following morning.
After getting showered/dressed etc, I went to turn off the PC expecting download to have completed but it was back to 46%. It wasn't verifying the download and still had the 4 hosts.

Can anybody explain why it should do this? I'm on the second day of trying to download and it's now at 77% with 5 hosts.

Thanks

stief · #2 (**permalink**) April 1st, 2005

That usually means the file discovered a corruption, and redownloaded the necessary parts.

LW will only try a few more times, then give up if it is truly corrupt. Hope that's not the case for you.

Tufty · #3 (**permalink**) April 1st, 2005

Thanks for that, Steif

You could be right...it's attempting it's third download now. It's in the 'Incomplete' folder and I tried to run it. The length is correct but there are are quite a few 'wobbly' bits throughout. I've evn tried it on the other well-known file-sharing prog beginning with 'K' but it doesn't have the entire film, only clips.

Thanks for your help

John