LW 2.3 beta fixes resumes

Look at the settings, there is an option to erase files after X days.
LimeWire does resume better, it just doesn't resume files with different names (and it's case sensetive).

We just discovered a bug where LimeWire can delete incomplete files immediately, making resumes impossible. The problem happens if you set the "keep incomplete files" option to anywhere between 24 and 49 days. Values between 75 and 99 days will also have the same effect, as will some other values. The problem is caused an overflow error.

I'm committing a fix now that will be released in LW 2.4. Many thanks to William Rucklidge for pointing this out and suggesting a fix. In the meanwhile, I'd recommend keeping the incomplete time at the default: 7 days.

-Christopher Rohrs

Would you please, please, please write something that recreates the downloads.dat file, using the data in the Incomplete folder?

--another one with gigabytes of incomplete files I'd hate to lose

I'll try creating a class, that does so. It won't be working perfect, however.

Aw, bless yer li'l heart.

Perfect, schmerfect--anything at all will be a big help to lots of us out here. Just think of the bandwidth you're saving with all of us not having to re-download files from the beginning!

Could you also put in the request to add the ability to restart downloads automatically when you restart Limewire, like back in version 1.8? Thanks

Don't be too optimistic. When I said "it won't be perfect" I meant "I don't know if it will even work". So far it seems as if you could leave your computer running for a day or two, before it recovered your gigabytes of incompletes. And even if you tried it anyway, LimeWire still mysteriously locks up, when you try the recovered downloads.dat.

It woud be ideal if you could manually tell a file to resume from a new source, or add download servers. I have a 200 meg file here with 3% to go, that can't find the servers it was downloading from, yet there are at least a couple coming up when I search. to be able to tell the file, 'go from here instead ' would be the stuff.

Also, chat on a mac? doesn't seem to work, and there is little documentation. how is this done?

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Yes, this would be a HUGE step forward for mankind!
It's a sorry fact that the human mind is more capable to make fuzzy decicions like "this file seems to be the same as that other one", so please let us override the software's logic when we want to.

Well, now that the "resuming" problem seems to be fixed, maybe you guys can figure out the next biggest problem, that is, getting the "re-query" to work....especially without the need to constantly re-search