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downloads won't continue I keep running into the problem that if I quit Limewire with downloads in progress, the next time I open Limewire, they are no longer in my download window. Does anyone know how to avoid this, or some other way to redownload something in your incomplete folder? |
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The bug was fixed in LimeWire 2.3. I know it's working on Linux and Windows now. The file, that is used to save the downloads, downloads.dat is saved when you close LimeWire and when you add / kill downloads. If you are having trouble, check if LimeWire can save to your downloads.dat file (located in your Incomplete - directory). Check file permissions, etc. |
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Do the downloads to resume appear in your downloads-panel after you started LimeWire? If that's the case a possible explanation could be, that you downloaded a grouped search result and LimeWire now resumes a similar file with a slightly different filename. If that's the case, the download will start from 0% again and it will create a new temporary file. This is a defect, indeed, and the LimeWire-team is trying to solve it by implementing another addition Gnutella protocol, the HUGE proposal, which will allow to identify similar files with different file names securely. So far, I don't think it's an MacOS-specific bug, since the methods used to write and read the file are working with JRE 1.1.8. |
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I do tend to go after a "grouped" file as the odds of finding one of them with an available download slot are much better, However, the problem also occurrs with a single download host request (download all). My recollections are, that (with ANY- LW 2.x.x) when the incomplete (resuming) download appearrs in the LW download window after a restart, the host address is the same as the original attempt, and, although I do nothing, the incomplete download appears in the download window and resumes at 0% regardless of the % I reached in the previous session. This problem does not happen in my LW 1.7, LW 1.7 usually completes incomplete downloads as long as the original host is (still) available. |
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