Thanks for your response Lord. Well that's basically a bug in the LW software then. I'll report it to tech support. I've tried both your suggestions above but neither have fixed the problem. I've also had about ten tries at downloading music at various times of day and night and the files NEVER transfer to iTunes. Does this mean that LW is "too busy" just about all the time? One other thing I've just noticed : When I use finder to explore the LW folders I notice that all the music I've downloaded so far is located in "LimeWire>Saved" but when I do a "Apple Key/I" to get information for this folder the "Shared Folder" option is not ticked. Is this relevent or am I barking up the wrong tree? Cheers!