Incomplete downloads not loading & lost
 

I am using an Intel Mac running OSX.5.6.

I was using Limewire 4.18 and it produced a message saying that it could not find my incomplete downloads. They were still in the incomplete folder with all of their progress.

I updated to Limewire 5 (just basic) and it wiped out not only my 4.18 but would not recognize the progress of my incompletes.

I tried to reinstall a previous version (4.14) and it also did not recognize the progress made but all of the files were still in the incomplete folder at their various stages of downloading.

I had read in another post that a solution to this was deleting the .dat &.bak download files however when this was done (and I only moved them to the trash w/out deleting them) it wiped out all but a few of my incompletes - over 60gb of partially downloaded material was completely lost and Limewire will still not recognize the few files that are still there. Returning the trash files to their location did not correct the problem.

What the hell is going on????????????? I have lost a file or two before but never everything!

Once the incomplete files start downloading, they will resume at previous download %, but until then will show zero %. This was true for LW 4. Not sure about LW 5. Deleting the download.dat & bak files? Who suggested you do that? I'd like to see a quote. They are the files that maintain your download preferences & download history.

In LW 4 all you'd need to do is go to Library window, select incomplete folder, select all files holding down SHIFT key, press Resume button. This would force all incomplete files back into Download window.

LW 5 does not have a resume option. And canceling files in LW 5's download window will delete the incomplete files.

I wish I'd known that
 

because I am not liking Limewire 5 AT ALL! Thanks for the words but I guess it doesn't do me much good now- all the partials are gone except for about 5. Know any way to get the others back?

I don't remember which post I read but it said something like LW would recreate a file from what it found in the folder. I guess that wasn't true at all. Or I misread it.

reinstall nightmare
 

OK - so I reinstall LW5 and all my downloads show up again but they are missing from the incomplete folder (which doesn't show up in my library at all).

Also, is this version a serious RAM hog because every other program I try to run concurrently is buggy and deathly sluggish when LW5 is running.

This really sucks. Where can I get my 4.18 back?

incomplete files do not necessarily show in Library for LW 5. They should definitely show in the Downloads window however. ;) In LW 5 there is no incomplete folder per se in library.

LW 4 http://www.gnutellaforums.com/mac-os...0-5-later.html

I am on an Intel Mac
 

and I'm still having trouble - the "lost" download names have reappeared but the actual partial files that were in the incomplete folder are totally gone and my hard drive shows 60gb opened up. Where those files went I don't know because they didn't go to the trash and I didn't delete them. I didn't delete the .dat & .bak files only moved them to the trash. I have found another set of these files in my downloads folder but have no idea how they got there and I'm afraid to touch for fear of losing the 4-5 partial downloads that didn't disappear.

Also, I am getting nowhere near the results I was getting with previous versions. All of my video searches show nothing but obvious junk/virus files for some CBS pilot and something called Women's World. I can't even get the junk results I used to get. Why won't the mostly decent search results I got in 4.18 show up in LW5?

Thanks for all the responses, btw.

Perhaps those particular ones finished downloading. Incomplete files start with a prefix T-xxx - filename. If the files do not have that then they are completed. :)

Again, I suggest you downgrade to LW 4 for 3-6 months until LW 5 picks up its act. ;)

Bogus search results
 

Beginning yesterday, I also started receiving A LOT of both "CBS..." and "Womans World EP..." results with nearly every search. I have not upgraded Limewire for months, if not years - still running 4.12.3 Pro.

What's happened?!

A good chance you were connected directly to a spammer ultrapeer.

These might help: 1. (a) Problems with the search, __ (b) Hostiles List, /OR SICK OF SPAM IP's stealing my bandwidth to upload junk files!!

2. How to find music

I do not have any Hosts specified and never have. I have disconnected and reconnected a half dozen times over the last 24hours and a search produces the same results. There are posts about this same problem in other forums (i.e. frost wire community). Thinking it's not the Hosts but I tried your suggestions and still receive same garbage results.

So you took my advice & filtered out CBS, etc. ? And still getting same results? Sounds to me like you do not have any keyword filters. People in different places may get different variations on spam. So need to customise their filter for themselves.

I 'never' do All Types search any more. That only seems to invite spam. As does using more than one search criteria in an audio search. But that's all discussed in the last link I gave you.

Looking at your topic "Bogus search results" & the thread topic, "Incomplete downloads not loading & lost", I don't see much in common.

Filtering is not the problem. Plain and simple. If it was, I would have received these crap search results long before two days ago. Also, as I noted previously, users of FrostWire are receiving the same search results - different P2P program, still Gnutella.

As for the "bad search results" being included in this thread, re-read orneryboy's last paragraph from about 3 weeks ago....

Anyone have a viable explanation for the sudden appearance of the garbage results?

Dirty skiddies thinking they're smart...

That's all it is, well in my opinion.

yes but that was not the thread topic. If he/she started talking about peanut jelly & marmalade, doesn't make it relevant. It would make it off-topic. Just being pedantic. :D

Put it this way, each gnutella program has a search horizon. They cannot search the entire network else each search would take hours. So search results come in from ultrapeers you are connected to & leafs connected to them, and ultrapeers connected to those ultrapeers, & ultrapeers connected to them. So somewhere along that chain are spammers. Sometimes people are connected directly to spammers who are ultrapeers so their spam results are much worse than other times. Sometimes there might not be a spammer within your search horizon. Generally when you connect to the network, the program will refer to previous connections it's had in the past, it keeps a list of them. So this in part can be the reason.

I have suggested to some people at various times, if you are only getting spam results, go to your connections window, remove the ultrapeer you have been connected to for the longest. Removing an ultrapeer can rock the connection so may need to wait a minute or several minutes for connection to stabilize. Then do a search, if still lots of spam, then repeat process.

Spammers have been around for many years, ... since start of century. It's just that they have become much worse, because it's a business for them, they get paid to do it (I think they get bonuses for stopping new releases being downloaded.) And now there's even more businesses, even larger networked computers set up to spam p2p networks such as gnutella.

Pedantic? Either pretentious or pompous is closer to the mark. More focused on prolixity than addressing the issue. I have a brother like that. No worries.

You obviously have not been around forums much. Most moderators will move posts out of threads that are off-topic. It's just the way forums generally are. Try to keep a single topic to s single topic thread. eg: Sometimes we get members who might post a connection issue to a topic about burning cd's or vice versa. The forums are like a library ... for easy reference. If you could imagine fiction books thrown into a section of non-fiction, etc. at a library:)

Although I had not use Limewire 4.1.8 in a couple of weeks, it does seem these "spammers" came out of nowhere (new). I will try the block host and even add to my filter list but still wonder why my search query would not appear in the list because it has been three diffferent times of day and random "new releases".

If I can cross reference, http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...d-results.html. You might be going through a period of not being connected to ultrapeers who are within scope of the files you are seeking.
I've gone through periods of not getting search results. One reason suggested to me was if searching the same search term(s) too frequently, the UP's can start to block it (not respond to it.) This usually repairs after a period of time (especially if you have a dynamic ip address.)

Also try doing single search criteria searches. eg: artist or title or album for music, title or ... for video, etc. :)

Just did the blocking of hosts etc and find out I have to do it for every search I make? They all came back with each search (3). Limewure is becoming too much of a head ache to continue using.

Perhaps you can refine your search terms a little. Changing the way you search, the search criteria can help change results.

Personally, I also browse a lot of hosts if they have similar types of files. This in itself may help lead me to better search results due to ultrapeers they may be indirectly connected to ... broadening the search grid in a way. That's if they're not spam of course. lol :D

LOTR....and yet here you are still answering questions about both incorrect search results and voluminous spam in a thread about incomplete downloads. I know moderators usually move off-topics threads to a more appropriate forum, but they usually are at a loss for where to move useless feedback, as demonstrated here.

I've been around forums plenty but not quite as often as I've been around people like you. One I've found value in, the other I have not. I leave you to figure out which while being hypocritical, and contemplating this - racking up a few thousand posts doesn't make one a sage.

Live long and prosper. Wait....that's the fairy tale for you.

Excuse me? We generally wait until the discussion is finished before moving the posts. Or didn't you know that? Pretending you know how things function. Post tally I am not interested in. I have over 30,000 posts, yet my tally shows how many? That's because I do not like being seen as a big poster. Goodbye GMAGDNA, go insult the administrators of other forums instead. At least I get the rare files I seek on gnutella network. Just because you have not a clue & prefer to insult the people who are trying to help you. :p So if you did not find my suggestions helpful .. I'm sure someone else will just love to help you here or elsewhere.

And I presume you are using a mac. This is the mac section. :rolleyes:

BTW I referred obsurv to this thread from another similar topic thread to read the previous posts.

hey LOTR....do you mind?

too late....hehehehehehe