Resuming partial downloads

LimeWire 1.5 will support your "resume from old download groups" feature.

-Christopher Rohrs
Sr. Software Engineer
LimeWire

well, i dont mean to bitch but when you download a 675 megs file and your download stops at 500 megs, it aint fun to hear that you actually cant resume the download... especially when you are on a 56k modem like I am...
please fix this quickly because otherwise you'll have a lot of users that will use other gnutella-based programs...

I have the same complaint about resuming downloads. Often times when i connect i am trying to get a file that is quite large, and and have only a few hosts to choose from when i do smart download. So i'm pretty much screwed if the download gets killed or interrupted. "Screwed" meaning starting that 200meg download all over again. i'm going to try Phex...

LimeWire 1.5 will do exactly what you want, I think.
We've built the installers and are testing in-house now.
Should be available to the public next Monday or Wednesday.
I think you'll like it.

-Christopher Rohrs
Sr. Software Engineer
LimeWire

ok, i'll look for it. i don't really want to leave Limewires great interface, and Phex requires that i install 32 megs of java software to run correctly. So if Limewire can deliver on resuming broken downloads, i'll stay loyal!

ok, i'll look for it. i don't really want to leave Limewire's great interface, and Phex requires that i install 32 megs of java software to run correctly. So if Limewire can deliver on resuming broken downloads, i'll stay loyal!

Phex doesn't need any more Java Software than LimeWire.
Just install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE, 7 MB), not
the entire JDK. The JDK is for writing Java programs, the
JRE is all you need for using them.

PS: What exactly will LimeWire 1.5 do ? Research for a file ? Handle a dynamic list of download sources ? Download the way Phex or Gnucleus do ?

PPS: If LimeWire's grouping feature is for resuming Smart Downloads, why does it actually group by name and not by size ? you cannot resume from a file that has a different size!

I saw someone mention that most "transfer interrupted"s were caused by the users. I cannot believe that. I have watched close to 99% of uploads afflicted by the bug. Hard to believe that many computers have connection problems. I've looked around this site, and this is the closest I can come to finding any mention of it. If I'm doing something wrong, please help me. Running 1.6 on a Mac with 9.1 and 512 MB of RAM. Everything else runs great. I like the LimeWire, and would like to let users upload, but I'm gonna **** a lot of people off if they can't get through a download. I actually watched an ip address get 1% at a time, get interrupted, force resumption, get another 1%, and so on until he got to 100. Of course there were times in between when all the upload slots were taken, so he/she is out of luck for the moment. Then they get through, and somebody else gets bumped off. Looks like a bandwidth problem on the Limey side to me. Please tell me I've got a setting incorrect so I can fix this thing and make it work.!!!!