i often am in the position of wanting to quit limewire, but some uploads are in progress (other people getting files from me)

limewire should offer an option such as 'disallow new downloads' or 'quit after all uploads are completed'

otherwise, sure, i'd like to let the current guys finish their downloads, but having done that, someone else will start new downloads while the current ones are in progress and there is never a 'clean' time to just quit.

this would also solve the problem on the other end, that is, you get 80% of a file, then the server goes down

this would be a huge feature

i strongly agree. i used to keep my computer on to let users finish up their downloads but the disconnect after uploads complete is an impotent feature as it's currently implemented. an improvement would be awesome.

I've found that if you want to quit LimeWire but don't want to disconnect from the people who are currently downloading files from you (and vice-versa), if you set the "Max # of Connections" under the Upload Prefs to "0", and then set your exit prefs to "Exit After Transfers Complete", LimeWire will refuse further upload requests, allow the people currently downloading from you to complete their downloads, minimize to the system tray (under Windows) and exit once all transfers (up/down) have completed. It's not the same as having a "Exit After Transfers Complete/Prevent Further Connections" option to quit LimeWire but it gets the job done.

I've tried the suggestions, e.g. set uploads to zero and "quit after transfers", but I find the next moring that Limewire is still sitting there chugging away. There are no uploads going on, but Limewire stays alive, and lets everyone search my files - there are always 10 in the queue. As a result, my hard drive continues to thrash all night. So what do I do? Exit Limewire completely in the middle of others' downloads.

I don't like doing that. 80% of my large downloads don't complete for just that reason with other users. What's the use of having such an excellent file selection if you can't complete the downloads, and they come in at a pokey 3kbps?