UPDATE!!!!

TO EVERYONE WHO'S HAVING THIS GOOFY PROBLEM!

i've been having this problem (see original post below), and i figured out an interesting way around it...(five minutes after my original post...haha)

i chose a folder inside the LimeWire folder...just goofing off, i hit "browse" and selected the Incomplete folder that it had already created, and it worked! woohoo!

of course, i didn't want that as my shared folder, so i went back, chose /home/username/LimeWire/Shared as my shared folder...and blammo...everything's cool.

i'm a linux newbie, so i dont' know why this is....but i would definately like to know, if anyone can explain it to me!

thanks in advance,
juztin.

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i've installed twice now....

the first time was under root, and everythign worked fine...that is, as long as i was logged in as root. upon logging in as my username, i got the setup options again, and the ''unable to use the specified directory'' problem. it didn't matter what directory i picked, i couldn't use it. i even tried to chmod 777 the default directory, as well as several new ones i created myself...and no go.

so i uninstalled, including deleting the hidden .LimeWire folder. i then reinstalled using my regular login name....it installed fine, but i got the same ''unable to use the specified directory message'', no matter what folder i use. i even installed it to my home directory (it was /home/username/LimeWire/).

any help on this would be greatly appreciated, as i'd rather not log in as root every time i'd like to use this great software. thanks!

-justin moody-
justingmoody@yahoo.com