Problem with Download Progress status
 

scene 1: I was downloading a movie in limewire. I then Switched the download in frostwire by copy paste the file in Frostwire incomplete folder. But when frostwire start downloading that file it showed that 62% download was complete whereas i completed only 25% of the downloading. What is the problem here?

Scene 2: I was downloading a movie in Frostwire n i completed 48%. But after sometime when i restart frostwire n resume that download then It was showing that only 1% was complete. But in the incomplete folder i could see about 40 mins of the movie.


Scence: 3 In anothere incident i was after resuming download after restart i found that my download progress percentage (%) is not moving at all but i was downloading at a good speed.


What is the problem here? Is it possible that firefost downloading the same part again which it downloaded before? or is that download progress status is showing wrong percentage and i should igonre it? Please help me out. I have a slow connection and I dont know what i m doing wrong....

wow that is an odd scenario. I am aware of this: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...wards-why.html

Depends what you mean by resume the download. If you mean from the Library window, resume function from incomplete folder, then the proper download % will not show until the file actually starts downloading.

I have not heard of people continually swapping their downloads between LW & FW, so not sure what effects it has (though have heard of using same download folder). A file of same 'hash' that is in one of their incomplete file download histories might consider one swapped across between programs as being the same incomplete file.

It does sound like FW was redownloading the file, not having any history of the previous download in its records.

Then What should i to do in the future to prevent things like that?

If the file is incomplete & you have checked it via previewing the incomplete, then just need to keep downloading it. The problem 'might' be related to both LW & FW using same download folder/incomplete folder if they are. Not sure.

If the previews of the incomplete file shows it from beginning to end & plays fine, then take above advice in my link, you can cancel the download, then remove from the incomplete folder.

BTW which version of LW & FW are you using? (a) If they are different versions then that might cause an issue. (b) One of the versions might have a download % bug.
I see 4.17.3 fixed one hash bug, not sure about other versions.

I am using 4.18.8 pro. And i have deleted frostwire.

But this problem with (%) happened before when i didnt swap with Frostwire. From where i should resume a download everytime i restart it?

Shouldn't need to resume each time, though it is an option from the Download window. LW automatically attempts to find sources for the incompletes when you open the program, and again periodically. Personally, I use the search to find sources. I also use the Get More Results advanced search option. :)

I switched back to basic 4.18.08 but same problem happened after 69%. It was not moving from there. only thing i did wrong this time( i guess) was i lost my net connection and it was showing, '' waiting for busy hosts'', ''need more sources'' these two command. I then click on 'find more source'. I guess limewire dont totally act as torrent where this kind of things never happened.

But i got a solution now. I think limewire work same as Free Download Manager, Flash get. Cause I search for torrent and opened the the Relevant Torrent(The same file which i was downloading in limewire) in both of these download manager. Then i stoped downloading and replace the avi file with the avi file which was in the incomplete folder of limewire.

And then both these download manager showed that 69% of the download was complete and start download from there.


I dont know what the problem with my limewire. I really like it cause it is very faster than any other option. I guess too much pause and resume is the causes for this. I live in Bangladesh where there is lots of Load Shedding (I dont think you know what this is, cause you dont face this problem in your country!!!) and i think this is the reason.

Well, I have the same problem as Sunnynchelsea and I live in France. I also use the latest version of LWpro and my downloading also freezes after a while and it could be either 3 % or 64 % no matter what, and apparently the downloading continues at a good rate without anything changing in the progress status. I know nothing about frostwire and I don't even know what you are talking about but the problem seems definitely coming from LW. I've been using LW for several years and I've never seen that. I used to launch LW, the downloading began and unless it stopped for a lack of sources it took just a few hours. The problem seems to have appeared recently and only with movie downloads or TV series, not with music. So something technical seems to be going wrong which doesn't depend on where we live and I expect we should be more than 2 to be confronted with this problem.

It is very irritating problem when you see you hours of work giving you no results....

Yes; some downloadings remain stuck at so many % and don't move from there while at the same time the downloading is going on.
So either it comes from a bug in LW or from somewhere, maybe at government level, to stop downloading for copywrights reason

Did you try doing a Bitzi lookup on the file to see if any complaints or see if the files are listed at all? Just a thought it is file related.

The only time I've seen something similar is when LW detects a corruption or part of the file missing & attempts to redownload, but is perhaps struggling to redownload that part & have it match the download hash.

No, I didn't; still the problem doesn't seem to concern one particular file only but all large video downloading, TV series (350 Mo or so) or full-time movies (700 Mo or so). When LW detects a corruption we are immediately notified by a window opening warning the user that the downloading is going to stop.
This problem of downloading getting suddenly frozen while apparently going on has occurred only very recently.I shouldn't be the only person concerned.
I first thought it could be because my subscription to LWpro had run out but even after renewing it the problem persists.

Now it's working; I didn't do anything except that I sent a message to the LW support website. Did they do anything about this kind of problem,I don't know, the fact is that's working now