download percentages going backwards
 

Weird and worrying problem: A download that was on 95% I noticed then was on 90%. I've been using a backup utility to make backups of the downloads.dat/bak files so I reverted to one which then displayed 95% again. I still suspected all was not well. Pressed pause and it displayed soemthing liek 40% downloaded. What is going on? This happened to another file aswell. Something serious seems to be wrong.

TIA

Check out the post below for an answer
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...1&postcount=17

and this from the gtk-gnutella section but can apply to LW:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...load+backwards

:)

But I've done a lot of downloading previously and never experienced this to my knowledge -- I'm pretty sure I haven't -- now I suddenly notice it at the same time for at least two files, possibly more. And it seems pretty severe. 90% of a 500 MB file down to 40% for one. And the amount that it back tracks varies each time I try (I'm using a backed up version of the downloads file so I can back track, but it looks like I may not have an old enough back up).

Thanks for the answer though. Could a starting to go wrong hard drive cause this? Got a horrible feeling that may be it. I used Data Recovery II to do a check drive or analyse drive, whatever it's called, and it's OK in that there were no out right errors, but the read time for a few sections were very high, which indicates I think the drive may be on it's way out -- possibly. It wasn't conclusive at all though.

Thanks.