First, I thank all involved in the development of Limewire. When Napster kind of went schizoid, and my HD crashed (with no backup, of course), I was tearing my hair (the only one I have ) out, wondering if I would be able to replace the missing files. Thank you, LW!

Now, to the problem for you gurus...

This is an example - I have, unfortunately, several instances of the same problem:

According to the D/L Status frame in the Search screen, I have d/l'd 21% of a 908.4 MB file.

Yet, according to the display in the Library screen for Incomplete files, which appears to show, at least for most of the files listed here, what the actual downloaded amount is, I have downloaded 908.4 MB (or 100%) of this file!?

This last piece of info coincides with the file existing in my Incomplete folder, labeled "T-952561120-[filename].mpg," with a size of 930,236 KB.

MY QUESTION: How do I resolve the sizes of files in my Incomplete folder with what is being reported by LW?

P.S. I think it's possible, but cannot be certain, that this problem occurred because of a system/LW crash. Any thoughts on the cause, and a possible prevention of same?

Thanks in advance for any help, and apologies for my long-windedness.

Sincerely,
Cruising Bull

This is quite normal. If the First and last part of a file get downloaded, it often shows the entire filesize. Nothing to worry about. Actually a good thing, because that way the videofile won't get fragmanted.

BTW Please edit the names of copyright material out of your post. It's against the rules to post them.

The size you mention MB vs. KB are the same size (908.4*1024)

Thanks very much for replying, Sleepless. I should have caught the copyright error, and think I have corrected it now.

Yes, I realize the MB vs. KB sizes are the same; what I didn't communicate well (sorry) is that I have, sitting in my Incomplete Dir in Windows Explorer, the file showing that size (i.e., 908.4), BUT in the LW D/L status window, it is showing only 21% has been d/l'd.

As a overview, I have what appear to be fully d/l'd files in my Incomplete dir, but their status in the LW D/L Progress window shows anywhere from 0% (Awaiting Sources) to (at a glance) 54% (for example).

AND... none of the files in the Incomplete dir will play in their entirety; oh, some will play to a point, some will not open (error message in WMP).

BULLETIN: I just found one file (~398 MB) in the Inc dir which played; so there may a few others. We are talking about over 30 files, and over 12 GB.

If I am being overly dense regarding your explanation, apologies... but I don't think, based on your answer, that it was realized there "seem" to be completed file downloads which are not being recognized by LW and/or not being released (and tagged/processed as completed).

Any further aid would be much appreciated.
Cruising Bull

These files are not complete.

The reason the filesize shows the size of the complete file is because most if not all P2P programs download random chunks of a file depending on what's available. These pieces then get put in the right place in the file when written to the harddisk. Some programs give you the choice of whether to allocate the space before download or not, and doing this is recommended. Limewire does this for you and you have no choice in the matter, which is actually a good thing.

I know that if you have space problems, this can be a bit annoying at times, but it's still for the best. This way your harddisk won't become as fragmented as it would otherwise be, and keeps performance as high as possible.

Sleepness,

As mentioned above, aha!!

I notice the dim glow of a 20w lightbulb in the far distance... unless that's a locomotive bearing down on me.

Last question about this topic: should I have seen that (the advance allocation of file space per file) somewhere? I.E., is this a RTFM situation I stumbled into?

Take care, and thanks again,
Henry

This was not a RTFM question. Actually I think you're the first to ask it (At least since I joined this forum)

People sometimes ask what is taking up so much e space, but otherwise no.

Might be good to include it here:

Partly downloaded files that you cancel in the dowload window are not deleted from the incomplete folder, in case you want to continue them later. They should be deleted from them manually if not wanted. Same goes for previewed files. They are copied in the incomplete folder.

In case you do this outside of Limewire, DO NOT delete the Downloads.dat and Downloads.bak files unless you want to start clean, as they keep all the info on pending and completed downloads.