huge file sizes/verifying file contents

[jofreakdotcom]

Hi guys,

maybe you can help me on this, I'm facing quite a limewire problem and I haven't found any help in the forums:
I'm using 4.10 Pro and am mainly downloading avi files (tv series), about 300-400 MBs of size. In fact there are two problems, I don't know if they are interrelated:

When the files go into "veryfing file contents" the green bar goes up and sometimes passes way beyond 100%, up to 400%, then sometimes works its way backwards, but never actually releases these files as completed. The file however seems to work in Windows Media Player.

The other problem: about half of my files are turned into size 3 to 4 Gigabytes! They seem to download normal (with size 300-400MB), sometimes finish properly, sometimes with the problem as above, but they are just incredibly large in Windows in my folders. Obviously, this slows my computer down immensely and Limewire is often on the edge of crashing. My computer is not the newest but I guess the file sizes just kill it. Most of these files I cannot load into Windows Movie Maker to compress them back down.

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance, jo

[Lord of the Rings]

I've heard of the 1st issue before. I'm not sure there is any answer. I thought it was a bug LW got rid of.

For the 2nd issue, I'm not sure but I'm guessing it's because you're previewing the files in LW. If you do this, it creates a preview file called: eg: PREVIEW - my holiday.avi
This file will be about the size of the video at the time you previewed it. Sometimes preview files might be larger. So ... after previewing or after completing downlding, go to the incomplete folder (go to Library window, select incomplete & select preview file & press delete. A safer way is select incomplete folder, press Explore button & this will open the folder for you after which you can send the preview files to the recycle bin.

Personally I preview them from outside of LW by opening the video file from the incomplete folder. Also, as I just tried, you can launch them from the incomplete folder in the library window & this will not create a preview file!

[jofreakdotcom]

Hmm, sounds reasonable but I'm never previewing the files, this can't be the problem, unfortunately. Any other ideas? It's so weird...
Thanks!

[Lord of the Rings]

When downlding video files, use Bitzi; How to use Bitzi Web Lookup ..., to see what user-feedback there is ... if there is any. Others might have reported similar things.

Check your system over. It sounds to me like you have directory damage. ie: the system is not able to calculate the sizes of files properly. I know of mac OS utilities that can repair this but I'm not sure about windows. Norton utilities is definitely one that can repair it. It might be worth asking Norbie in the general area of his site; see NorbiesWorld (click on link). Directory damage is not so much the system as the partition directories, or at least this is how it is on a mac, on windows it "might" be more-so registry related I don't know. So it might just be a single partition that has damage. Try copying the file to another partition to see if you have the same file size issue.

Here's an example of a mac utility which explains how such damage occurs & can be repaired: http://www.macos.utah.edu/Documentat...kwarrior3.html

Before posting on Norbie's site, try runnng his highly recommended Crap Cleaner to see if this makes any difference.