I just got limewire yesterday and downloaded about 50 songs, now most of them are gone off my computer. They at first went into my folder under my name, but then started going into the "saved files" folder with the little lime by it. Now all the ones in the "saved files" folder are gone after I restarted my computer. Is there a reason why this happend?

Go to your LW Library window, select Saved Files folder & press the Explore button. Sample image here: Using Library Explore button to access downld folder (click on link) This will open the folder up for you. So double-check if the files are there after all. The Saved files folder is simply a LW reference to your downld location. This was added since not everybody wants to share what they've downlded. The Saved Files folder is not a shared folder, purely a reference folder for most recently downlded files. The eventually move from off that list. If you're not sharing your downld folder then it won't show in the LW Library window.

The default downld location is: C:\Documents and Settings\"your account name"\Shared

If you have changed your mind & want to share your "Shared" folder or whatever you named your downld folder, then see 1. See How to Share Folders (click on link), & also this 2. Advanced Share options

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So I have to share my files in order to have them saved? I restarted my computer just now and the files are still there... Will they stay there for good or will they dissapear?

You only need to share your files if you want the "Shared" folder to appear in the LW Library window. All your new downlds once 100% completed will be moved by LW from the incomplete folder to the downld folder. You can see these in the Saved Files folder in the LW Library window. But yes, only if you share your downld folder will this folder ("Shared") continue to display in the library window. BTW the Saved Files folder that appears in the library window was introduced for those people who don't share their downld folder. So that way they can see what they've downlded. The Library window is primarily to show files that are either incomplete or being shared. That's all it means. It doesn't affect your downlds. But I hope you're sharing something. After all, this is peer to peer, ... what you are downlding is being shared by others like yourself. If nobody shared then there'd be nothing for anybody to downld. lol

About sharing files & folders: 1. See How to Share Folders (click on link), & also 2. Advanced Share options

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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