Thank you for your response, Ringster. I discovered the high number of days option many moons ago and did that. Perhaps one of my many crashes may have affected the software's ability to save the incomplete register. Seldom does my new computer 'not' crash after anywhere from just a few minutes to as high as - when I'm lucky - an hour of running limewire.

Yet, there still needs to be a solution to wiping out any record of alllllllllll those incomplete downloads I/we have been waiting to complete over many months, of not recognizing, in their proper place, all of those incomplete files sitting there taking up sooooooo much of our hard drive space, ignoring them and starting from ZERO again, regardless of what's directly in the path ready for completion. If limewire is such a crash-happy engagement, surely a solution is in store for such a deliriously destructive bacchanal.