my prefs were set to 999days

what do you think happens to my prefs when I delete the prefs ?
(as you told me to do)

the prefs revert to the default which is 7 days, which you should really know and if you did know this you wouldnt have advised me wrongly

sounds like you are back tracking on a confident response you made to my query

my downloads folder is on the root directory of the hard drive, I created it myself and gave it a specific name

one click on the hard drive and i can see it

when you delete preferences Limewire defaults to 7 days.
I had set this to 999 days before
but when you delete prefs this goes to 7 days
the only way to change this is to launch Limewire
When you launch it deletes old files
There is no way to save them from this
I went straight into prefs and set it back again to 999 days
but the files had been deleted on start up
something a real expert would know

You dont seem to be aware of this and yet you are posing as some sort of expert on limewire on this forum????????????

I explicitly asked you if deleting the prefs would delete any of my incompletes

you assured me that no this wouldnt happen

then I find that it will only keep whats changed in the last 7 days by default

Im not silly

You are silly

Dont ask me a question that you dont know the answer to and then presuming I have messed up call me silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I am silly then you are much more silly

Silly billy!!

You seem to think you are an expert in this forum, swaning around giving people advice but you screwed up on something very simple here today and Im really annoyed at you

You are telling me now, after the fact, that you didnt know I suffered from this problem but you told me what the solution is?

How can you offer a solution when you are admitting that you dont know what the problem was????????

In a previous post I asked

"just before I delete the preferences folder Im wondering if this will also delete the partial imcomplete downloads I have already? "

Your reply was

"NO"

If you were an expert and you knew something about Limewire what your answer should have been was:

"be very careful, you could loose some files, because when you delete your preferences Limewire defaults to only keeping files that are 7 days old. The only way to change the days from 7 to 999 is to launch Limewire and go into the preferences. But once you launch Limewire it will look at the old downloads and use its default preferences to delete any old downloads. In other words if you delete the preferences folder it will delete any incomplete download that has a modification date older than 7 days from today"

If you had told me that then that would have been expert advice and I wouldnt have deleted my prefs folder.
I at least could have made a copy of the files and then could have searched for them again.
As it is now I have no record at all of what has been deleted.
I might have read a newspaper one day and searched for something or had a conversation with someone which triggered a search but now that is all gone.
Totally unretrievable

Gone forever.

You gave me crap, illinformed advice and Im annoyed at you.

You should appologise instead of trying to call me silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not an expert & do not pretend to be so. I try to help where I can. I've been using LW for 4-5 years. Deleted my prefs many a time, sometimes just to experiment for users such as you on the forum. But I have never seen that problem immediately after deleting my lw prefs folder.

I can assure you , since I almost ONLY search for "rare" files, if my incomplete files become corrupt because I accidentally jumped back a version or whatever, I try to move on. Put it down to experience. As frustrating as it might be. Besides, if you've had LW for longer that 18 months, the due to the changes within LW, there would have been incompletes you would never have been able to resume anyway.

Sorry if my suggestion caused you problems & havoc, etc. But it was the most obvious suggestion to make. You could always buy pro & ask their support. I'm sure they'd know better than me.

BTW if you're using LW 4.12 then any files you've downlded during that period will recontinue from where they were. Just go to the LW Library window & resume those incomplete files from the incomplete folder. Also re-search those files to try to find sources for them. LW 4.12 is the 1st version that will recontinue downlds from where they were should they become corrupt.

Thank you Sleepless

If you delete your preferences there is a 100% chace that you will be left with the default preferences next time you launch the application

the default is keep any files that are 7 days old

delete any others

this is what Limewire does the first time you launch it after deleting the prefs folder

a very simple and basic aspect. Pretty logical if you think about it. If you actually remember what the default setting of 7 days is.

Limewire pro support have never responded to my emails despite buying the software and 6 month updates several times.

I know that you're p*ssed, but no matter how much you moan about it the files wont just reappear. Normally they are left intact even if it goes back to the 7 days limit.

Is there no software to search the computer for deleted files, that you know of?
I use Windows myself so wouldn't know about any for OSX.

If you are able to find some of those deleted files, there is a good chance that you can restart them by finding the file in a search, start the download and then close Limewire.

Then take the original file and replace the new file

Note: Filenames have to match exactly. If you need to rename, then rename the old file or Limewire wont recognise it.

P.S. Losing 4 Gigs isn't that bad + many of them you probably would have a hard time finishing anyway.

P.P.S. starting an argument with the site administrator = Not a good idea

Who is sleepless?

Are you suggesting that I would be sleepless after loosing hard found files? after waiting weeks for them to download?

How can I resume incomplete files when they have been deleted from the moment I launched Limewire, after deleting its preferences?

I dont even have the name of those file yet alone the data that I spent weeks waiting to download - some of the files were at over 90% and now they dont exist

there is no way to recover them and no way to even find out what they were called thanks to your WRONG advice to delete my preferences folder for Limewire

When it launches for the first time (after deleting the preferences) it will scan the old downloads, and it tells you its doing it (and theres nothing you can do to stop it) and it will delete any file older than 7 days

thats it,

you are left with what remains

I am Sleepless

We had a chat about this problem elsewhere. I didn't want to post because I don't use OSX myself

I think its important for users of this site to know that the advice they are getting might not be totally accurate?

my experience today would seem to prove that point

Im not starting ANY arguement here

I am simply pointing out that the advice I got was WRONG

plain and simply wrong

it didnt work

I lost a lot of files

Are you telling me that I didnt loose a lot of files

are you telling me that Limewire doesnt default to 7 day downloads and deletes anything older?

Are you telling me there was a way to avoid this??

If there was I would really like to have known this before

Dont pull the "Im the administrator" card on me

Thats just wriggling backwards

Get into your head that this does not normally happen. This is the first I have heard of this too. I have advised tons of people as well to delete that folder, and have never got any feedback about incompletes dissappearing

Also EVERYONE makes a mistake from time to time. Are you saying that you never gave some advise that backfired. If so, then what a boring antisocial life you must have.

And again. DOES OSX NOT HAVE PROGRAMS AVAILABLE THAT CAN FIND DELETED FILES AND RESTORE THEM????