downloads return to 0% when shutting down limewire
 

hi everyone ive only been using lime wire for about 2 weeks now and found it great till a couple of days ago when for reason unknow to me my downloads started to fail ....ok heres what happends... the downloads start just fine reach 10% 20% and so on but if i shut lime wire down for a sec or an hour when i restart it my downloads return to 0%

pls can someone help me ! as i said it worked fine up till about 2 days ago
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I noticed this also. I'm not sure when it started doing this, but I'm sure it wasn't doing it the whole time. I'm curious to know what people say about this.

maybe fixed
 

ok i think i may have fixed the problem i just shut down lime wire and my downloads didnt return to 0%. anyone else having this problem try this and please post a reply so i know this is what is wrong ok heres what to in lime wire go to tools then options then saving and if your incomplete download files are set to 0 days change them to 10 days then click apply ...thats all i done and i just shut lime wire down and my downloads stayed at the right %
ok as i said if this helps please post a reply

I changed that to the maximum number, because i deally, i want to handle keeping and deleting incomplete files myself.

I have been having a very similar problem, but changing the days doesn't help, because mine has always been set to 15 days. I believe this is some bug that popped up in the last week or so, because my downloads don't all go back to zero, some of them reset to an odd percentage, but always the same one, so I think all the "saved" in process downloads are "stuck" on some day last week, that's where they keep reverting to, the percent they were completed that day. I also keep getting download that I had deleted back in the active download section, even when I try to permenently delete the files. SOMEBODY HELP US!!!!!

Well I have my incomplete files set to close to a thousand. It's better to be on the safe side. lol :D

Keep in mind that when you close LW, you must wait for LW to totally close down (which might take a min or 2) before shutting down your computer. Otherwise this might result in corrupt downld preferences.

If you have problems with a computer that crashes consistently (which will also potentially corrup the LW downld prefs), then back up your downld preferences files. These files are called 'download.dat' & '...bak' & are located in your incomplete folder. Make a copy of them & store them else where or off your computer. Then reload them next time before you open LW.