I've had Limewire for a few years, but I recently tried to install uTorrent. I had to uninstall uTorrent because I couldn't map the ports myself (internet is in roommate's name, and he couldn't remember his IP username and password, and has now scarpered). I stupidly tried the same thing with BitTorrent, and found the same problem (I am a n00b, didn't realise BT would also need manual port mapping).

Before my torrents were automatically opening in Limewire, but now all of a sudden after installing and uninstalling UT & BT the torrents in LW are giving me 3 errors: either "file is malformed" or "file does not exist" or "waiting 300s for sources". It can't be that these are fake files - I'm getting them from the same sites as I've downloaded previous torrents from.

Any ideas as to what's been going on? I changed the default program back to Limewire, but it's still not working. Even the torrent icon is just a blank white square (lol, the technical term) and not the green downwards-pointing arrow I've been used to the past few months of LW torrent downloading.

I'm aware it would be way easier to just go for UT or BT, but it isn't an option right now, as the roommate has gone AWOL and everything is in his name, and I'm in the middle of a massive torrent dl that I don't want to get messed up if I have to reinstall LW...

help?...anyone?...anyone?...

Hi julia, im having a similiar problem. I'm DL'ing a torrent and it was going pretty good till it hit 67% percent and now its not. It says its downloading from 6 hosts but no speed is indicated. I am doing this to my desk, alot.

Ah well that is frustrating, grr lol...to be honest I just gave up and uninstalled Limewire. There was no f-ing point when all it was doing was vacuuming up my memory, and nobody on here seems to want to bother answering my question, unlike other random questions that inexplicably get 20 replies. I hope yours sorts itself out though, good luck!

sod off Limewire! :

There is no solution. Limewire sucks for torrents, simple as that. When your roommate gets back have him contact his ISP and get the info needed to connect and if he forgot user/pass for the router, then just reset the router and set it up again including portforwarding for a real bittorrent client. I would recommend either uTorrent or Azureus.

BTW Azureus has ok UPnP capabilities, so if you could get Limewire to connect using UPnP (brick wall gone), then you should be able to connect using Azureus with UPnP on.