I got that when I reinstalled, you need to set up a new folder in your hard drive, I just called mine LW. I'm not at my own home PC now and I can't rember exactly what I done. I'll put it up when I get home. (which is about 6.00 pm Belfast time and it's now 8.16)

Ah Belfast ... warning ... if any of you are from the UK, that includes Ireland, then it may well be your ISP's at fault. Not necessarily but possibly. Most ISP's in UK are anti p2p sharing. And since most isp's there have the same overall owner such as Tiscali for example, they will employ different techniques to prevent sharing.

Try downloading a magnet link from here: + MagnetMix.com +: The Source for Good Content
That is a site, so it should download fast. If not, your ISP is most likely at fault.

I deleted all the downloads that I had started before the update and the problem seems to have gone away.

The video files still freeze but after a few seconds of being frozen LW opens a dialogue box telling me the file is corrupted and asking if I want to continue downloading.

I've tried with two video files (with a lot of hosts) and happened on both. The videos turned out to be fine, so it must be a small corruption (like the ID tag or something)

Am trying to access the site but it's taking ages. Did you mean the site access or actual download within the site should load quickly?

thank u belfast...ill try that when i get home....

Nope, the new video file i was testing was looking good for a while but it got stuck on 33%..and still my old video files wont move.

Things are looking bleak.

Once you click one of the video links, it will open up in LW & start downloading.
hmm ... considering that is a site, not another user, then it does sound suspicious. Those magnet link files are free to copy.

A couple of options I can think of. (1a) One is back up all your settings in LW, make a note of them all. Then delete the LW prefs folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire (sample image included at bottom of page.) Vista users see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/genera...der-vista.html

(1b) Make sure your days to keep incomplete files is set to a large number such as 9999 days. The default age is 7 days.
(1c) Make sure your hard disk drives have plenty of space on them. And Defragment the drives occasionally. Remember, you can always right-click a download & change location or choose save as & choose location, if your main drive or partition is getting too full. In that case, I'd suggest changing your save/share location.

(2) Try another gnutella program such as Phex & see if same thing happens with those magnet link video files: Phex - Download
You can always uninstall Phex later. But if same problems with Phex, then sounds like your ISP's are causing the problems. BTW Phex has some nice attributes. One being that it connects to more gnutella client programs, unlike LW which mostly only connects to other LW users. And Phex has a size filter. Phex's downside is the interface is not as intuitive to new users as LW is. It takes a little to get used to understanding how it works. (Note: for magnet links to download in Phex or another gnutella program, you will need to change default magnet handler program. Otherwise LW will try to download it as it does now.)

Cheers mate, i'll try those ideas.

I've tried everything and im still having the same problems, downloads getting to a certain point then stopping or going backwards.

Anyone else still having similar trouble?

I'm having exactly the same problem. Yesterday I updated to Limewire 4.16.6, and I started downloading three movies. (So unlike retro's situation, they hadn't been In Progress between Limewire versions) Two of them finally got to 100%, and stopped. I read in the forums that I should restart Limewire (this has worked for me in the past as well) so I restarted the whole computer and when I reconnected to Limewire, the two that had frozen at 100% dropped down to 75% and 81%, respectively.
They have now been "downloading" at over 100Kb/s for the past hour, and the percent hasn't moved at all! The one that's at 75 sometimes moves up to 76, and then drops back down to 75 again.
I've tried re-searching the items, but to no avail.
BTW, I'm in Canada, not the UK. Anyone who has had this problem as well found a solution? Should I restart the downloads? Is it a problem with my computer/program or the actual files?

I tried downloading a song just now, and it worked fine. Maybe just these files?? But they work as movies when I preview them...