Has this ever happened to anyone? I downloaded a complete movie (approx 1100 MB), and I had been able to preview it during download so I know it was a valid movie. I happened to be watching Limewire's screen when it finished completing "verifying file contents", it took a longer time than usual in the "saving file" mode. Then when I went to the shared folder, the movie was listed there with an icon that indicated unrecognized file...and the file size shows 0 kbs? I have never had this happen before. I have most every video application on my pc. After re-booting I still get the same file listing with no change to icon or file size. Is the file buried somewhere and is there any way to make it work?

AFAIK, Limewire has a file size limit of 1GB, above that it can't be shared (or downloaded)........that' might be your problem.....though I'm not sure.

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That should be 2 GiB. 1 GB as limit does not make much sense. But why would LimeWire start the download of a file it cannot finish anyway?

As I said, I'm not sure....
However, since I got the information from "grandpa" who is definitely an experienced user, I thought I could state it the way I did.....including me not being sure.
Read here of a reply from him to one of the threads you've also suscribed:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...limit+limewire

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Same thing happened to me once

I have no idea what went wrong. Had enough space. I was able to get almost the complete file back using Restoration (approx 6 minutes of the movie missing)

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=47967

Use your computer as little as possible until the recovery. You may overwrite parts of it by accident

BTW the file I lost was only 730 MB, so it wasn't any filesize limit causing this

LimeWire uses signed 32-bit integers for filesizes. Therefore it cannot handle files larger than 2 GiB. They will certainly fix that somewhen but haven't done so for years.