There's two files, one with the .dat extension & the other with .bak The 1st is the main one.

AFAIK If he installed over the top of his program folder which is where he was saving his downlds to, then yes it most likely will erase the downlds since the installer will remove the original folder at the beginning of installation. The issue here is the download folder being inside the program folder. Unless I'm missing something here.

I have just been using the pro version for a few days and I find it the same as the free edition. Regardless, I love LW. The downloads are the fastest that I have seen from any p2p program.

I think that LimeWire is the best of its kind going...however...having made all the recommendations above my stored partial download files STILL keep getting zapped from time to time. VERY annoying and so is the fact that LimeWire support doesn't answer my queries.

Does anyone have any idea why?

Thanks

oldtrout which version of LW are you using? There was a bug in one or two of the recent versions re: incomplete files.

See http://www.limewire.com/english/cont..._history.shtml ? up to 4.10.4 had this bug!

Perhaps you should update to the most recent version. ;)

I had 4.10.0 Pro.

Thank you I have updated it. I wasn't aware of a newer version.

I don't think I have come across a software provider that didn't advise their customers when an update was available.

My God even the infamous Bill Gates does that!

I hope that clears up the problem as it has been most annoying.

Thanks again.

Actually LW has been criticised for their prompting updates. So I'm surprised you didn't get one. :D

I had "major" selected but have now "selected ", maybe that will make a difference.

Once again thanks for your help.

I really don't think the notification option works very well, I have mine set for beta releases and it has only notified me once when the last dozen or so beta releases were available.