hi ther, i downloaded loadsa files, and they were saved in my folder that i had designated them to be saved in. it was all going well so i deleted the files from the Limewire library, and vamoosh, it also deleted them from my designated folder. i cant find them again! is there a way of getting them back or are they gone forever?

Gone forever! You could try using a file utility to rescue them. But you'd need to stop writing to your hard disk drive otherwise you'll write over them. Yes even files that've been deleted can be rescued at times. Even though you've deleted them, their skeleton is still on your hard disk drive. As long as you don't do any more saving with LW or any other application, you can use a file utility to recover these files. Norton Utilities has a program called Unerase. For others a quick google has uncovered these ones: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...e+Search&meta=

The 1st one on the list has a trial version which might do the job. But you should try to save to to another computer not you one you use LW with.