"Could not download ; awaiting sources"

[procureur]

And... Is it a problem from me or is it normal : most of the time when i try to download, status column indicates "Could not download ; awaiting sources" ??? Is there anything to do ?

[Joakim Agren]

Hello!

This message was introduced with the 2.9X versions. It is a replacement for the old Requery Sent message. When Requery Sent was used it meant the LW would try to find alternate sources for the file to download it from when the original source was no longer available. It would do so about once every 45-50 minutes. But this function was considered by the LimeWire developer team to have become an Evil function that increased traffic on Gnutella. Therefore LW will no longer send out requeries. Instead you will get a more honest Could not download awaiting sources message. What you should do when you get such a message is to just manually perform a new search by using the exact same search string as the filename in question and if LW finds alternate sources for the file will attempt to download from that/them instead. And if a succesfull connection was made it will start to download the file.