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Old March 4th, 2008
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Default I Can't Find My 2500+ Downloaded Songs

i don't no way happened to my songs in my library, i can't find them to restore them. can someone please help me this is an EMERGENCY
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They should be in a folder C:\User\your name\Downloaded Music (or whatever folde)r you told limewire to save your files to. It has a preference to not just go into a folder under C:\
My other suggestion is for you to do a search from Start Menu\Search for a file which you know you should have... for example: Beatles - Let it Be
and see what comes up as the location from doing that.
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I have the same problem i accidently unchecked one of my shared folders and now all my songs are not in the library, i find them and i can put them back, but when i click out of limewire and come back they are not there and i have to do it all over again can someone tell me how to put them back without having to repeat the steps everytime i start lw?????
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I seem to be having the same problem since the recent update. No songs are in my limewire library and the last tracks I downloaded do not go to the library. I have done a search for the recent downloads and came up with nothing in my documents or anywhere.

All the previous tracks before the update are in my itunes library,but I can no longer find or transfer anything I download after the update.

Beginning to regret the update,everything was fine before.
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Old March 6th, 2008
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Did you both try the thread i gave you.
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Old March 6th, 2008
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Did you both try the thread i gave you.
Yes I did. The files are definitely stored somewhere and not deleted because they still play in itunes,but I'm stuffed if I can find them.

I can now get new downloads into my library,so at least I have something to work with. The limewire library is starting from scratch it would seem. I'm a bit of a twat with computers anyway so stuff has to be really straightforward and obvious.

Appreciate your input,ta.
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Old March 10th, 2008
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Do a search from the start menu for a song you know you had that isn't in your Limewire library and it should show the folder where all your other files are kept as well. The new version has a preference for newly downloaded files to be in a place other than in your C:\ main directory.... usually somewhere like C:\User\Xcom46\downloaded music. Your shared music can be anywhere including below the ordinary C:\ main directory.
iTunes has it's own directory structure which is usually under: for example
robert\Music\ITunes\ITunes music\then a list of all your albums containing the individual files.
Your main music folder should still be intact under C:\Music or whatever you have called it.
You will have to copy and paste your downloaded files from the download folder into your main Music directory if that's where you want them to be. I have two directories one called just: My Music and another called: Shared Music where I put 100 or so songs I want to share with other Limewire users. You don't have to share your entire library of songs if you don't want to ([although it's good etiquette to do so]) it's not compulsory. By doing a simple search from the start menu you should easily be able to find your other songs. (for example a search term could be) Beatles - Yesterday.mp3. From there it should show you where your other files are located.

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Old March 10th, 2008
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Do a search from the start menu for a song you know you had that isn't in your Limewire library and it should show the folder where all your other files are kept as well. The new version has a preference for newly downloaded files to be in a place other than in your C:\ main directory.... usually somewhere like C:\User\Xcom46\downloaded music. Your shared music can be anywhere including below the ordinary C:\ main directory.
Limewire has it's own directory structure which is usually under: for example
robert\Music\ITunes\ITunes music\then a list of all your albums containing the individual files.
Your main music folder should still be intact under C:\Music or whatever you have called it.
You will have to copy and paste your downloaded files from the download folder into your main Music directory if that's where you want them to be. I have two directories one called just: My Music and another called: Shared Music where I put 100 or so songs I want to share with other Limewire users. You don't have to share your entire library of songs if you don't want to ([although it's good etiquette to do so]) it's not compulsory. By doing a simple search from the start menu you should easily be able to find your other songs. (for example a search term could be) Beatles - Yesterday.mp3. From there it should show you where your other files are located.
Tried that and search came back with no results.

I think I'll just give up now,cheers for your time everyone.
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Old March 11th, 2008
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When you do the search be sure to have the search include your whole computer.
This is usually listed under the "advanced search" option, and you select that option by selecting: Location/Everywhere
To do this: click Start menu, then Search... when the box opens click the Advanced Search arrow. This should open a box where you can be more specific about what and where you search... like I said; make sure you select the "Everwhere" option from the location tab and make the search term either something like: Beatles - Yesterday.mp3 (for a specific file you know you should have) or *.mp3 (star/dot/mp3) which should show the location of all your mp3 files.
I hope you can find your files... it would be really frustrating to lose so many songs all at once.
Good luck!

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