Negative Downloading

PrincessLayla · #1 (**permalink**) March 17th, 2008

Thanks, I got it fixed now. ^_^ I have anotheer quicky question, when I want to download an episode, I only get so far and then it goes to "Awaiting Sources". It doesn't even try to connect! Can I fix that or do I just wait around till it feels like downloading again??? And yes, the bars are all the way up (green).

busy_bryony · #2 (**permalink**) March 17th, 2008

This means that nobody who is online on the Limewire network has that file (theoretically) for you to download. You can click on the file (hold the control button and click them all if there are multiple files) and then click the Resume button at the bottom of the downloads/Search page. This will change the status to "Queued", and Limewire will then search to see if any new sources of the file have come available. You may notice that each time you log into Limewire (I only run mine overnight, when I get free unlimited downloading, hence log off during the day) all the files on the list are returned to "Queued" status, and Limewire then searches through them at that point to see if the equivalent files are available to download. If it's been ages and nobody on the network has that file any more, it is worth running the search again to see if any other different files with the same content are available. Go for ones with the highest frequency, as obviously if 13 people have the same file, the download is more likely to complete than if only one person has it - you never know when they will go offline! I sometimes find that when the status is "need more sources" then searching for the same file will make it somehow re-find files it hadn't "noticed" were there before, so obviously Limewire doesn't find everything!

Xcom46 · #3 (**permalink**) March 17th, 2008

PrincessLayla
Just wait a little not all of us tend to leave are Lw on all the time i dont.And i do share.

Busy_bryony
Who is your (Isp)
And what state do you live is usa or other.It all depends.And that file that you say is stuck at 52% downloaded.It might be a fake file or the person that you are downloading it off of is off line.Not ever one leaves there Lw on all the time.If that 52% file do's not re-start on it's own than most likely it's fake.