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Old July 4th, 2010
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There are other threads with this title - sorry if I'm duplicating but they don't seem to cover my circumstances.

Vista 6.0, service pack 2
Limewire vn 5.1.4

I rebooted the PC and got the message when restarting Limewire. This was a torrent that I had been downloading, and I've rebooted several times (it's a large download) without any problems. But now I can’t resume. When I restarted there were no downloads that started – before any uncompleted ones would restart automatically. I wondered if the torrent might be corrupted, because when I downloaded it a second time the file size changed, but I get the message when opening the new torrent also.

I have tried changing the save location, deleting the preferences folder and opening as administrator - all suggested in other threads. None work.

Grateful for any advice.

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I've heard of this issue before & it applied to Torrents. LW is not the best torrent program out there (there's better such as uTorrent & Vuse.) And some torrent sites block LW as a torrent program from connecting with their links.
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The torrent came from Demonoid, which I use frequently. I checked before my first posting in the thread by downloading another torrent at random, which worked fine. It's 86gb of files and I'm a little over half way through, so I don't want to lose them and have to start again.

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I've been away for several days, and this thread seems to have gone quiet. Does anyone have any suggestions please?

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Try reopening the torrent with LW. Another option is to redownload the torrent file from that site & open that with LW.
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Sorry - did both before. I have the files in the Incomplete folder but I can't progress any further.

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Are there many seeds/peers for the files you want? Seems to me that 86GB is way too large a file to try to dl as one torrent. I have found it much faster to dl such content as multiple files (i.e., instead of 12 one-hour episodes in one file, I would dl 12 files that each contain one episode).
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Seems to me this is one of the areas LW lets users down with torrents.
With some other 'torrent only' programs such as uTorrent & Vuse, it is easy as pie to restart torrents if something goes wrong with the computer that mucks up the downloading. Question is what the exact problem is. You could arguably try using either of those programs mentioned & open the torrent up with them to see if they recognise the previous download % & continue the torrent. LW 5 unfortunately does not have resume functions, once a download vanishes from the download window for whatever reason you cannot restart it usually. For gnutella network files you can go back to LW 4, resume the incomplete downloads then revert back to LW 5, but I do not know if this would work with torrents.

Are the incomplete torrent files showing up in the Download window at all? If yes, I wonder if someone 'kick & banned' you for downloading using LW.
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By 'kick & banned' you for downloading using LW I take it you mean that my broadband provider or somebody is taking action against me. That is not happening - just a few minutes ago I downloaded another torrent chosen at random and it worked. I have reverted to LW 4.1.18 and installed utorrent and Vuze, but nothing seems to work - they all have their own error message.

In answer to other points, the number of peers varied but was normally about 50. The speed also varied, but when it stopped it was due to finish in about six days, having got through about 52gb out of 86gb. It was by far the largest torrent I have ever used, but it worked fine for nearly a fortnight.

The problem seem to be limited to one torrent only. Am I allowed to name the torrent on this forum? There are two similar ones, both giving the same size of download, and neither of them work on any program, even though one previously worked fine for a time.

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Cannot name the file if it is a copyright file, no.
Sounds like a dud file perhaps. Perhaps google the issue see if anybody else has reported issues with that torrent.

By kick & ban, I meant another user using a different torrent program. However, torrent sites can ban particular torrent programs. Private torrent sites usually only allow a particular limited list of torrent programs to use.
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