A Fix To The Resume Download Problem

[andreytcho]

Well after letting LimeWire download files overnight i had the misfortune of my win98 freezing up on me and I ctrlaltdeleted it .
When i turned LimeWire back on there was nothing in the download section to resume , all of them gone.

Hell what's that all about?

I go to see if the files are in the Incomplete and they are , so i reopen the program and nothing happens.

Solution to the problem :

Well i came to the forums here and realized that everyone is having this annoying problem.

Here is the solution:

When it happens

1.Reset Computer
2.Copy all the files from Incomplete into a safe place and delete the originals.
//make copy of downloads.dat , note size//
Infact this is the most important file of all, i make backup of it every hour or so
3.Open LimeWire
4.Close LimeWIre
5.Copy the old files back to Incomplete
6.Open LimeWire

This should do the trick and all of your stuff is trying to resume.

Now i have done this and it works, though i haven't done much extensive testing but in 1hr this is what worked.

I tested different variations of the resume also in case someone has a question about them.

1. Single file / Single Host
2. Single file / Multiple Hosts
3. Multiple files / Multiple Hosts

All of those seem to get fixed in the same way.


Other things i noticed :

When you uninstall the version of LimeWire and reinstall it , the fix does work.

But if you install a different version it doesn't

Again Limited testing.

Update: Well it happened again , this time i had complete backup of the files and the downloads file, and it worked again.

//It has to get fixed in the code , it's getting more than annoying//

-Have Fun and Share good complete files , remove the Incomplete directory from the share list.

-[MILF]-Trib