LimeWire 1.6b beta
 

I have placed the beta versions of LimeWire 1.6b in the LimeWire beta directory at:

http://www.limewire.com/beta/1.6b/

You will find installers for the various operating systems there. The OSX installer is not there yet, but will be by tomorrow.

The changes in this version are relatively minor. The most significant change was a bug fix on the Mac where LimeWire would crash if users tried to share a top-level directory. There was also a bug that would occasionally arise on various platforms with accessing some configuration files on startup.

It would be a tremendous help if anyone who has a spare moment could give the new installers a try and report any problems back on the forum.

Many thanks to all.

-LimeWire Team

1.6b wont let me exit on Redhat 7.0. I get the following stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at a.a.a.bx.k(bx.java:352)
at a.a.a.c.Initializer.c(Initializer.java:170)
at a.a.a.c.r.actionPerformed(r.java:153)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Abs tractButton.java:1450)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.act ionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1504)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed (DefaultButtonModel.java:378)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultB uttonModel.java:250)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseRe leased(BasicButtonListener.java:216)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEven tMulticaster.java:230)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.jav a:3715)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:354 4)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:116 4)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.jav a:2593)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:1213)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:24 97)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent( Container.java:2451)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(C ontainer.java:2216) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Conta iner.java:2125)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:1200)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:914)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:24 97)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java: 339)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierar chy(EventDispatchThread.java:131)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(EventDispatchThread.java:98)
at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:380)
at java.awt.Component.show(Component.java:946)
at java.awt.Component.setVisible(Component.java:903)
at a.a.a.c.o.a(o.java:118)
at a.a.a.c.MainFrame.shutdown(MainFrame.java:491)
at a.a.a.c.cj.actionPerformed(cj.java:151)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Abs tractButton.java:1450)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.act ionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1504)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed (DefaultButtonModel.java:378)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultB uttonModel.java:250)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton. java:279)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$MouseInputH andler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:886)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.jav a:3715)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:354 4)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:116 4)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.jav a:2593)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:1213)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:24 97)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent( Container.java:2451)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(C ontainer.java:2216) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Conta iner.java:2125)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:1200)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:914)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:24 97)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java: 339)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierar chy(EventDispatchThread.java:131)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(EventDispatchThread.java:98)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThre ad.java:85)

Limewire 1.6b beta
 

All attempts to download fail (displaying the message "Couldn't download") on Redhat 7.0

Thank you very much for posting about these issues.

Do downloads fail at the end of the download, or do they simply never succeed fully? I recommend trying 4 star downloads whenever possible, as this will dramatically increase your success rate.

Could you possibly send me the limewire.props file located in the directory where you expanded LimeWire? My address is afisk@limewire.com. That would be a tremendous help.

Also, what directory did you choose as the directory to save files?

Thanks again.

Mac Download Solution
 

Use a download application with strong download resume (e.g., Interachy), but doesn't work with Internet Explorer.

It may take several resume attempts, but it eventually comes through.

Mac 1.6b Beta - Still Minus 2 Options
 

The latest Mac Beta version (1.6b released 7/17) is still missing the last two "Options" tabs (Filters, Advanced) on one of my machines (iMac 233), but they are still present on my other machine (PowerBase with G3 accelerator). On the latter machine everything works perfectly and completely, and this strange situation has been the case for all betas since version 1.4b, including released 1.6.

However with 1.6b, Limewire on the iMac now preserves changes to the other options involving typing in a value--that is, the cancel, apply, and OK buttons now work, whereas before they would just turn dark colored with a click and nothing else happened. With the exception of the two missing Options tabs, Limewire works fine on iMac.

Both machines run OS 8.6 with _all_ latest Apple software updates, and they are connected to a LinkSys Cable Router with latest firmware. I use the most minimal extension set (that is, to get online) for both machines, using latest version of Conflict Catcher. Limewire folders on each machine have an identical installation of files and file sizes.

I always install with no extensions loaded (shift-key down). I always give application at least 40mb memory.

Thanks to badger for posting regarding the options tabs.

In LimeWire 1.6, we added some logic where we reduce the size o(particularly the height) of the options window if we detect that your screen size/resolution will not allow us to display the entire window. If we sized the window normally in these cases, the OK, Cancel, and Apply buttons would often be pushed completely off the screen, making it impossible to change your settings.

To solve this problem, we had to remove the two tabs with the largest y value (the tallest ones), which were the "Filters" and the "Advanced" tabs. These tabs were likely two of the less frequently used tabs, so we chose to go ahead with this change.

In LimeWire 1.6, there was a bug were applying changes on this reduced-size tab would cause an error. That is now fixed in LimeWire 1.6b.

In future version, we will likely move to a more extensible solution for the tab user interface so that you can have all of the options in a way that is not dependent on screen real estate.

Mac 1.6b Missing Options Final?
 

Without being critical of the devoted developers of such excellent software, I can only say that I _really_ hope you reconsider and find a way to make all options readily available in future releases. Those options are extremely useful, and for those of us on a network or behind a firewall, they can be critical.

In summary, would you agree with this as a (hopefully) temporary workaround?:

If you have a screen resolution of 800x600 or less,
Temporarily increase your screen resolution (via Monitors control panel) so options for 'Filters' and 'Advanced' will "appear",
Set desired options for 'Filters' and 'Advanced',
Quit Limewire,
Reset screen resolution,
Restart Limewire.

The option settings should hold until the next time you want to change them. Note, that the missing two options appear at screen resolutions of 832x624 or greater, right?

We will be making the options window independent of screen size in a future release, switching to a tree structure similar to that in Netscape.

For the time being, however, the solution that you mentioned will not work -- the sizing is determined dynamically at runtime and is not persistent between LimeWire sessions.

There is another option, however, although I would advise proceding with some caution.

The Options window changes the settings in the "limewire.props" file located in your installation directory. You can edit this file directly if you wish. The keys for the Advanced and Filters tabs are:

FORCE_IP_ADDRESS,
BANNED_WORDS,
FILTER_HTML
FORCED_IP_ADDRESS_STRING,
BLACK_LISTED_IP_ADDRESSES,
FREELOADER_FILES,
FILTER_ADULT,
FILTER_GREEDY_QUERIES,
FORCED_PORT,
FILTER_VBS,
FORCED_IP_ADDRESS,
FREELOADER_ALLOWED,
FILTER_DUPLICATES,
CONNECT_OK_STRING,
CONNECT_STRING,
FILTER_HIGHBIT_QUERIES


I may have missed some, but I don't think so. I can't go into the details of each one, but hopefully you can figure it out by looking at the file. LimeWire reads in these settings when it starts up.

One option would be to copy your limewire.props file from your other computer, or at least copying the settings you want.

I hope this helps.

Listening Port
 

I've seen this issue come up with a few people with the recent version of Limewire. For me, Limewire won't connect. When I start Limewire, it tells me that it can't find a port for incomming connections, and when I try to change the port it says that all ports are unavailable, even the default 6346. I didn't have this problem with previous versions of Limewire (specifically 14b), and now, after I installed the recent version of limewire, bearshare and other gnutella programs can't connect for the same reason (port 6346 unavailable). Any ideas or help?

We are unfamiliar with this issue.

Are you completely certain that you have a live connection to the Internet when you start LimeWire? What operating system are you using?

This should not happen unless you are disconnected from the Internet. LimeWire will automatically search for a port to use if the default one is in use, so it should be able to find a port without a problem if you are connected to the network.

Any more information you can provide would be helpful. Any word from anyone else experiencing this problem?

I'm currently on Wi***. I'm sure that I have a live connection to the internet when I try to connect. I am on a cable modem, and right before I upgraded I had been connected using 1.4b (before I uninstalled it, of course). I know some other people had this problem...there's another thread about it, called "listening port." Under the configuration window it had automatically changed the default port to 6355, but I was unable to change it to anything else, and I was unable to connect.

Hmmnn...I'll have to give this one a little thought. What ISP are you using? I'll post the same question on the other thread to try to get some idea if this might be an ISP issue.

I currently use @home...it happend immediately after I installed the new version of limewire, so I would doubt it's an ISP problem though.

Do you still have your old version of LimeWire kicking around anywhere? If not, you could download it from:

http://www.limewire.com/download/1.4/LimeWireWin.exe

It would be a tremendous help if you could check whether or not this was a problem with 1.4 as well, as we are unable to duplicate that issue internally. (don't worry, I won't hold it against you if that's too much to ask =)).

Also, I assume that you are using LimeWire 1.6b beta? If not, you might want to give it a try at:

http://www.limewire.com/beta/1.6b/win/LimeWireWin.exe

Thanks for all of your help.

I uninstalled 16 and reinstalled 14 from the link you gave me, and it works again. I think I'll just use 14 for a while, and settle for an older version :-)

PointyEgg-

Thanks for trying this out -- glad to hear that it worked. Were you previously using LimeWire 1.6b or LimeWire 1.6? Do you still have 1.6 installed on your system? If so, does it continue to have the same problem, while 1.4 connects successfully?

I'm only asking because that section of the code has not changed significantly since LimeWire 1.4, so the bug is somewhat mysterious. Thanks again.

Mac Limewire 1.6b bug?
 

I was hoping that this release would remember the config settings, but *now* it's bringing up the config "wizard" on each launch!

Otherwise, getting momentary freeze-ups (that affect the entire system), though can't quite figure out just what is going on when these occur.

Aside from the above, seems to be working fine.

Keep up the great work, guys.

Are you using LimeWire on OSX?

If so, LimeWire will only save your settings if you exit through going to File>>Exit instead of exiting through the OSX toolbar.

If you are not using LimeWire on OSX, then there may be some issue that we are not aware of.

I had 1.6b. I tried to install both 1.4 and 1.6 (to different folders) and the problem would still exist in 1.6b while 1.4 worked. I even tried installing the two in a different order to see if it was the installation that did it, but 1.4 would always work while 1.6 wouldn't.

Do you know if the message you received read:

"Could not find a port to use for incoming connections. Please specify a port from the configuration window."

or:

"Could not listen to socket for incoming connections; aborting."

It would also be a great help if you could send me the "limewire.props" file located in your installation directories for both LimeWire 1.4 and LimeWire 1.6. If you could send them to afisk@limepeer.com, that would be wonderful.

Thanks very much -- I know this is a bit of a pain, but just think of all of the LimeWire users out there who you'll be helping!

Startup problems
 

I can't get 1.6b to launch. I continue to get an error stating that LimeWire can't find the .lax file, even though it is in the same directory.

I've tried reinstalling multiple times.

Fortunately, I can still run 1.4, but I would like to try the new version

I'm on MacOs 9.1, using MRJ 2.2.4.

Any ideas?

Success
 

LimeWire 1.6b beta loaded and runs just fine on RedHat 7.1 using jre 1.3.1. I was getting nowhere with the stock 1.6 version, so this is a very welcome development. Thanks.

Hi afisk,

all my _numerous_ attempts to install LW 1.4 as well as your new 1.6b on my iMac running MacOS 8.6 have failed...

Your installer installes hundreds of files into the TRASH and that's all. Nothing else gets installed on my mashine. Look at other postings in this forum - there are dozens of people with the same problem out there.

I am greatly disappointed and will certainly stop trying to install your programm anymore - too much time lost already.

Regards,

Valery

where to find 1.4
 

Hi,

I would like to download good old 1.4 that worked great for me whereas 1.6(b) refuses to connect.
The given link does not work (for me). Where can I find version 1.4 for windows?

Always getting "Failed to connect" in 1.6b
 

The version 1.6b does not work at all for me. Simply cannot connect to any host, the only message I ever get is "Failed to connect", then "Disconnected". Version 1.4b still works fine as usual. I got Wi***, and I'm behind a firewall. Any ideas?

1.6b Features
 

In the feature list on the Limewire websit It says that you can minimize to the System Tray. I can't figure out how to do this. Any Ides? Thanks

Re: 1.6b Features
 

Read http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=2483

"Couldn't Download"
 

No matter what I try to download, I get the "Couldn't Download" status.

This started with the version of LW that I had been using with very few problems. I upgraded, thinking that perhaps version was an issue. The problem continues.

Can anyone help me?

"Couldn't Download"
 

Just to clarify -

I am on Win 98, I am connected to the internet. Originally, I was behind a firewall, and things were working fine. When the "Couldn't Download" status began popping up, I forced an IP and set up my computer as the DMZ host on my router.

The status appears when a download would normally begin. Instead of beginning, it says "Couldn't Download".

Resume download
 

I noted elsewhere in the posts that this might be a problem on Mac's only so here goes.

Downloaded files in the Incomplete folder are ignored when chosen again for download from the main download window. Therefore starting the download of the file from the beginning and ignoring the percentage of the file already takeing up room on your hard drive.

Also "Drag and Drop" or "Cut and Paste" from the Imcomplete folder to the main download window or search window would be a great way to resume downloads.

Hope to hear from you.

d.r.ritter@t-38.usaf.org

After 1.6d install Internet explorer 5.5 would.nt load till I removed Java runtime 1.31. Running win2K, administraor, sp2.

After 1.6 install Internet explorer 5.5 would.nt load till I removed Java runtime 1.31. Running win2K, administraor, sp2.

PointyEgg and others
 

To all of you that uninstalled 1.4 and went to 1.6b and can't get it to work, check my post on the main page Windows 95 but with 1.6. Evidently Windows 95 is missing some kind of a Mircosoft update that is included in 98 and later versions. I only discovered this after I tried to install Audiogalaxy and THEIR download detected that I needed this update and even gave me the exact update page. It was called " Winsoc32 " or something very close to that. If nothing else download Audiogalaxy, get the update, then uninstall it, and re install Lime 1.6d. It was kind of a pain, but now I can run it on Windows 95. My other computer with Windows ME had no problems connectiing. Hope this helps you all. Are you listening Limewire techs???

Thanks for posting about this. This definitely makes sense as a solution for Windows 95 users, and we will look into this further. We're still working on solutions to connections problems for other Windows versions.

Thanks again.