> I think that it's your donwloads.dat file that got corrupt

well, imagine the downloads.dat file no longer exists for one reason or another. say i was to email you (and also say we had the same os and version of lw) one of my partially downloaded files -- are you saying that you'd be able to resume the download process of that file, just from that file itself? -- no further information, such as the downloads.dat file.

it looks like the downloads.dat file, i guess, keeps a record of what part(s) of the file has been downloaded and what part(s) hasn't. the request i'm talking about is resuming without that downloads.dat file, becuase, yes that get corrupted for one reason or another -- that's what's happend to me several times. now i have an awful lot of time's worth of partially downloaded files, which at the moment are unresumable, so useless.