I have had LimeWire Pro for around a year now, and never had any problem with it. I was just sitting here listening to my music tonight and all of the sudden my whole music folder except for one song was gone. Can anyone help?? What did I do?

No, they're not there... I did a search for them, looked in the recycle bin, they're just plain gone. Ran AV scan, spyware, etc. and nothing abnormal turned up. Could someone somehow have taken them from me? Am I getting in trouble for downloading? I'm just really confused and have no idea where all my files went.

Sure they were not accidentally deleted thru the LW Library window? If so, then it by-passes the recycle bin. You'd need a file recovery utility such as Norton to recover them. Or a free one here: PC Inspector File Recovery (click on link) OR if you have windows XP then see this System restore for deleted files

If not deleted then perhaps your shared folder is misplaced. Search for the word shared or whatever the name of the folder is. Also search for .mp3

Do you have a younger brother or sister or family member who might have interfered with LW whilst you were not at the computer? Could be the culprit.

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I don't think so. I was just sitting here listening to music and playing a game and all of a sudden the music stopped. I go try to change the song (because I'd been having problems with the LW player sticking after 2-3 seconds of songs since I upgraded) and it said it couldn't play any of the songs. I went to open them with WMP and it said the files were no longer there, and sure enough, they weren't. If I was to get in trouble, wouldn't it just be something like being served papers not them hacking into my computer?

No, they were totally deleted, not just removed from the library. I'm not totally computer illiterate, I know more than most of my friends, but I'm just stumped here. My kids were in the other room and my husband was at work, so I know nobody else physically touched my computer. I've just never seen anything like this.

No nothing like that! lol It sounds like your wmp has lost its links to the downld files. Of course you don't delete the mp3 files after you downld them do you? Open up wmp & click on Media library tab & click Add to at top of window & select search computer for media files. See example here: Using windows media player

Oh late post from you. Yes ok all you need to do is relink them to WMP as I recommended. If you move them after creating a playlist with WMP then WMP won't be able to find them. So you'll need to re-add them as suggested. No big deal!

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

I just did a system restore, I've done a thorough AV scan, and still nothin'. After it happened I was reading about the lawsuit LW is facing right now so I thought maybe I got in trouble or something. *Sigh* Ok, I guess I'm going to quit downloading music if I'm going to invest all that time in it and have them disappear on me. The files are literally nowhere to be found except for that one random song that remains. That wasn't even the song I was listening to when it happened.

No, I don't erase the files after I download them lol that would be a bit pointless I've been doing the same thing as usual and somehow this all happened. I'm about to give up on it.

Just curious have you tried downloading on limewire since it happened. If you have where did the files you DL go to. Did it start a new DL folder or what.

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I have 4.9.30 I just upgraded like a week ago because I experienced the upgrading glitch too (told me to upgrade then installed basic on me) but then I got .30 installed successfully. I didn't think a SR would have helped but I figured it was worth a shot. Thanks for your help everyone.

No, I haven't tried DL anything since. All of my incomplete DL's are still there just not the complete ones.

Oh well, I guess they're gone. Thanks for your help everyone.