Hello!

When you perform a search the results will come up in the window to the right. After you have performed several searches each search result list will be under individual tabs at the top of the search result window. I think that up to 8 searches will be saved then the oldest search list will be deleted when performing a 9'th search. When you are downloading something it will appear in the Download area/list and if for some reason the connection to the one you where downloading a file from got lost you will se the Could Not Download message. What you should do now is to highlight the particular file in the download area and click the Kill Download Button. Now look under the correct search tab that you found the file to download from and once again look up that particular file and then double click it and LW will now try to reconnect to the same host to se if it is still reachable and if it is LW will continue to download the file from where it left off. If not then you have to perform a new search with the same search term as the file name and if LW finds alternative sources for that file it will try to download it from there instead. If it does not find any you could just leave it there in the downloadlist and everytime you search for it LW will try to connect to the new sources and eventually you will get it. LW by default saves incomplete files in the Incomplete folder for 7 days before they get deleted. So you have 7 days by default to find it. After that then you have to start the download from the beginning(0%).

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<img src="http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/blob16.gif">Sincerely Joakim Agren!

Joachim
Ah yes crossed wires here! I thought that there was a 'researchable' menu area that I was missing. Your technique can only apply if Limewire is left running for several days with no more than 8 search tabs active.
I use the resume button under 'Library'-'Incomplete ' in any attempt to reactivate a connection.

Unfortunately I've never had Limewire run for more than a day without hanging/requiring a restart.
In point of fact I 'blame' L/Wire for causing Kernal panics.
If left running overnight I almost invariably rise to the dreaded 'Restart message'
Regards

Instead of getting this clearer, I think you have the wires twisted even more tightly. Let us take things to their simplest level. There are no automatic bells and whistles in Limewire. You have to do everything yourself. Although there is a Resume Button (and a hidden Force Resume) it does not work. There is no reconnect/re-search system. And leaving the machine for any length of time over one minute will not improve what you had at the end of one minute,

Step One. Search and download from the hosts in your search box. If you show up with anything other than a positive connection, highlight the original host and the failed download and kill the download and restart the download. If this fails to produce a connection, abandon that host and go on to the next one until you find a live connection.

Step Two. Management of the download. Most downloads stall so you have to be ready to go through the kill/restart download sequence every time it fails. For this purpose, you must keep the original listing under the appropriate tab in your search area. If it drops off because you do too many searches, you will not be able to restart your download. Use the manual delete (the little box with a cross in it on the tab) to manage your stored search results once you get to whatever maximum number of searches you have set in your Preferences.

You have to play Limewire like a computer game. Passively watching it will not achieve anything.

Thanks for the advice David
Twood appear I'm still @ the stage of typing with fists..........
Yet wait ...I've just gone to incomplete d/loads in the Library & 'resumed' a 6 day old search for Logic Platinum 6 OSX.sit. It reappeared within the Search list & proceeded to d/load 8% before reverting to C/N/D/load Await...etc.
I often leave things to reconnect & d/load to completion with varying degrees of failure.
I just disconnected/ reconnected to check Logic's current status- 'Waiting -- s for 1 busy'
The remainder in my search list still 'await sources'
Update: after 4hrs Logic now sits @ 12%

Well, we have now moved on to the problem of the stalled download which is more difficult because you have lost the original source from the search box. One option, assuming that you have managed to reconnect from the incomplete file (which, incidentally, stores the address of the original host) is to use the "hidden" browse host. Once the download has begun, highlight the line in the downloads window and either option or command click (sorry I can't remember off-hand which it is). That will disclose a window menu in which one of the options is browse host. Of course, not all hosts are browsable but it does at least give you a second chance if the source stalls. Once you have the browsed source, highlight the object file in the search window, kill the download and restart the download. That usually reconnects you to the host and you can chase the download to an immediate and successful completion by restarting the download every time it stalls. Simply leaving it will never reconnect you. That facility was removed from Limewire several upgrades ago. The "awaiting sources" is simply warning you that you have to take action.

After remaining @12% for a few days Logic Platinum now sits @ 63% without any intervention on my part.