My LW's setting is not to share 100% completed files. So at no time should it have been communicated to the network it was shared. Basically from moment of beginning of downloading to after completion, it should not have been shared at any point.

Only time i turn on Partial File sharing is if my uploads are a little quiet.

point taken...again I am guilty of speed reading a post and missing a vital point...


as a BS user I've seen that message a lot of times from supposed sources of a file....

and perhaps its not really a 'bug' rather something included into the program so that 'others' can track content on the network...you know, those 'people' LW has been 'working with'...in theory if you don't partial share and don't share completed downloads then you should never be listed as a source (i.e. in possession) of a file...this 'bug' allows downloaders to be 'detected' by people who are not the source of the file....

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Well...it's been several weeks, and no matter how I choose to "share", I still have the same problem!
But another odd thing happened to me...i found myself on the exact opposite side!
I had searched for documents, and found one particular user had a lot of what I was needing...so I clicked on "view files".
It showed this person wasn't sharing ANY documents, yet I was currently downloading 2 and had already downloaded 3 others!
Yes, I was able to get entire downloads...even when the user had yet to add them to the "shared" portion of their library!
Many other types of files were shown...just not documents.

I also had an entirely different problem with another user...it got me so upset I didn't get back on for nearly a week!
Seems every file I tried to download was conveniently "unshared" by the user...was still online and was still able to access files, just not the ones I was trying to download. Even deleted almost whole files (over 90% complete), searched again, and found nothing! Just makes me wonder...especially since this user had no idea who was trying to download files...how bored do you have to be to sit and watch your uploads just so you can quickly "unshare" the same file? Why share at all if you're going to go through the hassle I describe?

I'm really starting to agree with you all and wonder if these are really "users"! Too many weird things I've found lately! Really thinking about totally leaving. Would miss it, but you know the old addage...just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that people aren't out to get you! LOL

Forgot to mention in earlier post...
Yes...I download a lot...but also share more than 5000 files.
I nearly always limit my downloads to 3 at a time...and will even cut down to 1 at a time if only able to find 1 or 2 users to download from.
Yes...this tends to increase my time online drastically...but I think it's proper "netiquette" in order to make sure that everyone is able to share.
Just wish others felt the same "netiquette" urges as I do!
Just getting increasingly harder to not get upset...especially after I see the long list of uploads!

LW's browse host function has always been quite unreliable. What I do after a browse search has finished, I choose Get/Find More Results several times, also rebrowse them from scratch. Sometimes when using the Get More results tool the browse search tab disappears because it failed. But still, this is a handy extra to use when browsing people.

There definitely are people out there who unshare files. Perhaps because they have their settings to share files upon completed downloading, but then wish to get the files out of public view. lol ... it might be because they are at work, or because someone in their family might look over their shoulder lol ... whatever reason, it's highly annoying to other users .. and tends to suggest they are simply leechers (in the gnutella sharing sense of the word ... torrent leecher has a different meaning. Gnutella meaning = take but no desire to give back.)