AFAIK, LW stops looking for sources whe it displays the following statuses:
"Need More Sources" (1)
"Awaiting Sources" (2)

(supposing you don't get the even less desireable statuses like "Couldn't move to Library" and others)


In both cases, you have to reinitialise the search yourself if you want your dld to have a chance aat continuing.
In case (1) however, you can press the "Find more sources" button and LW will look for sources for 300 secs. Also (unless I'm mistaken), if you close LW with that status on your dlds and the reopen it, it will try to find some sources.
(2) is a more terminal case, where LW has "given up" looking for sources and you have to do it yourself with a manual search.
Now, please don't start with the usual rant of: "Man, other P2P do this by themselves" and "Why the hell doesn't LW do it? I'm not a babysitter!" 'cause the why's have been answered before. all you have to do for some answers is search with the search function the LW section of the forums.

Cheers

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