I know we "newbies" are a pain in the butt, however, we need your vast experience! I'm trying to figure out this enormous "life" of file sharing. My problem is when going to my Shared Files under Complete, then clicking a file to download, they all come up w/file is corrupted and will terminate. Can anyone help me w/this?

Your description is not clear. Are you meaning from within LW? Are you meaning from the downld window or the Library window?

If a file is corrupt during the downld process then you'll get a warning normally. If you ever clicked to always to use that answer, then you may need to revert popups back to default.

It might be worth seeing this T3 Spammers; mp3 Bit-Rates Versus File Sizes

Thanx for your prompt reply! It's in the Library of LW. They are under Shared Files; Complete. They are about 100. They are all formats (docs, images, videos, etc.) These are not ones that I have downloaded, however, they appear to be somewhat downloaded and the file available? Thanx for the link, I will check out right now.

I think you're confusing Complete with Incomplete aren't you. Those files are the ones you've partially downlded. So partially downlded images or programs won't run. You should be able to open video files if they're more than a few % downlded such as say 40 MB or more.

The incomplete folder is where all your partially downlded files are stored. As soon as they reach 100%, then LW will move them to your downld folder (which is normally called shared by default.)

LOTR: I'm positive it's the Complete folder. I'm looking at it right now in Library under Shared Files. What I am confused about is that I didn't request these dls and was not aware that they automatically get dld and from where? I don't understand most of all this file sharing process, however, it's fascinating. It must be that when I'm online dls are happening from all over. How do I control what gets dld to my computer, i.e., movies, not music? Also, they are all the same size 197.7KB. Why are some of them in red?

Under the InComplete option, there are two movies I canceled during dlg and thought they would be deleted. I don't want them to Complete and have deleted them now.

Thank you so much for quickly prompting to my questions w/great answers and resources! I would have quite by now if it wasn't for you and help! (I'm still trying to figure out T1-T3?) You're my mentor LOTR!

You can find out more about T1 & T3 speeds here What speeds are T1/T3, etc. for LW, & also this More on LW connection speeds

Those files are viruses I suspect. They may be multiplying. Can I ask you to go to Norbies site & post on his forum following his instructions to do a report using Hijackthis & post it for him. See NorbiesWorld (click on link) I don't know if you're infected but you do have such files on your computer.

In future ignore all files less than 1 MB (1,000 KB) in size.