helooooo out there...
ive been using the lovely limewire for about a year and a half now sharing over 2000 files of my own and aquired-thanks to everyone who shares!!

Every time I crash limewire (usually when im running too many programs-even with a gig of ram) or when I upgrade (using.8 now) I loose my 'downloads' list. Since I mostly search for the 'not popular' stuff, my list is long and takes weeks to find files. It is so long that I forgot all the stuff that was there.
I have tried to cut n paste the list to word but no go.
Any suggestions short of making a side entry for every search?

Also, the new restriction on connections seems to have slowed me down about 33% (dsl/work, cable/home bandwith).
I also get far less hits whan tapped as an ultrapeer.
No complaints-just looking for wisdom...

Unfortunately, when you crash, you will always lose your downloads list and there is no provision for making a separate list within Limewire (except, of course, that the Incomplete file will hold all the partials and could represent an aide-memoire for you). I run a separate want list that I chip away at over the months. As I collector of less popular music myself, I enjoy the hunt. But a word of clarification. The point of keeping a long list of incomplete downloads has been removed. Earlier versions of Limewire used to send out requests for reconnection. This no longer operates. so the only point of keeping a "full" download tray of incompletes is as a want list. My own strategy is to kill a download the moment it becomes obvious that it is not going to be bullied to a conclusion. The incomplete file remains available for the next time I repeat the search and attempt reconnection so I lose nothing by deleting it. And, although it is good to be sociable, I would disable the ultrapeer option and concentrate on simple upload and download as a leaf. You are obviously the kind of person we want on Gnutella but experience shows that operating as an ultrapeer eats bandwidth and, unless you are running an unlimited broadband account like mine, it may be too expensive for you to leave Limewire up passively to operate as an ultrapeer while you do other things.

Thanks for taking the trouble to ask the right questions. If anything is not clear from this, come back.

David,
thanks so much for a clear and concise reply. I had suspected that the downloads list was not re-searching and went throught he list yesterday hitting the 'resume' button. It worked in a few cases, but not often.
Iprefered the older version of the software because I could 'open -up' 6 nodes and rely on the program to keep searching. Anyway, I realized a long time ago that a good download session is a full time effort-researching every 5 minutes or so, changing your connections by deleting the oldest ones broadening (hopefully) your search to new leaf users, deleating morpheus conections, etc.
Even with the old version I repeted my searches every 5 to 10 minutes as replies drop to zero by then. As you posted someone in another thread- this is a great way to (as hannibal would say:) "try new things".
There is no doubt that my tastes have been sharpened and refined because of Limewire. I would never have 'sampled' all of the various music that I have this year if I was forced to buy an entire album for 'perhaps' one good cut. As anyone who likes photography knows, you take a whole 'roll' to get one or two good pictures.
I am saying some of these things here as I remember how much I learned by reading the 'chatter' in the postings. Perhaps we will give some good insight to someone just starting out.
In this vein, I want to plug what Jobs has done at Apple with the new iTunes store. THIS is the way music should have been sold all along; cut by cut. Unfortunatly, they are not yet licenced for some of the things I'm having trouble with (like Paul Hardcastle-'FirstLight' and Emma Kirkby) but it's a start.
p.s.
Was in Thailand last year (Bancock/ChangMai)and was "Amazed".
Slip over to RAFFELS for me and down a "sling" in my name (till I can get there myself!).

Hmmm. I'm relatively new to this Limewire lark and, in the short months of experimentation, I've never had resume work. Browsing the threads, I read that it had been "disconnected". As far as I can determine, even the hidden "Force resume" doesn't work (which is strange because if you take the trouble to hide it like buried treasure, you might expect the pirates to leave something valuable in there). So you must either be using a very old version of Limewire or something strange is happening. However, if it works for you. . .

And, as a final thought, we actually avoid the tourist places and live in the Heartlands, subsisting on roti prata and kopi oh. But I'll buy you a beer if you make it out here.