hi there new to limewire here and have downloaded movies successfully in past but recently get halfway downloaded and i get a corrupt file message .can some one explain and how to avoid or remedy in future thanx

When downloading Video Files, ALWAYS use Bitzi. See Instructions Below.

After you have completed your search, Right click on the file that you're interested in. Now go to Advanced > Lookup File With Bitzi. Left click on that and a new browser window will open which is Bitzi. Now you will see how other members have rated this file. If you see something like "Bitprint not found" then Leave it alone. Its probably a Fake or Corrupt File. If it has been Rated then you can read what or how the members feel about the file.

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I am also having a problem like this with music, coupled with an indication, on the FIRST item located for each search, that it has previously been downloaded (and the indicated "size" is always 5,611KB)

5,611Mb = 5.6 GB ... are you sure that was the size or was it 5,611 KB ?
A file the size of 5,611 KB would most likely be spammed porn stealing the name of the item you searched for. However there's other type of spam, etc. out there now too.

Bitzi is a great way to check the files. How to use Bitzi Web Lookup

To go back to the corrupted files, these all show a size of 3,462 KB on LimeWire's Logging. A clue to this outcome occurs during download when the file won't preview.

More: I have tried to get rid of these (and the 5,611 KB files) but they are shown as being "in use". I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the problem gets reinstalled as well!

Will someone please help?

Spammers are getting trickier by the day. Chances are then that they are not really video files. But exe files. Their true extension might be hidden. ie: might be viruses. Similar scenario with audio files.

Advice then is to ignore such files in future.

Try options here: Incomplete Download File won't delete at all (click on link)

Thanks for the Bitzi info, i didnt know that...