I'm on Mac OSX

Tried the posted 'fix' and it was no good whatsoever!

The strange thing is that despite having a bar which reads (Disconnected/no files available) I seem to be still downloading stuff.

I have found that on a couple of occassions a 'Force Quit' (how else will Limewire quit anyway, it refuses to obey commands to quit) will result in LW connecting, at least for a while, on restarting the program. Of course you have to go through the whole startup process again each time, but SLOWLY you can gather your download. As I have not managed to actually COMPLETE any download yet, I don't know if it will work?

I bought Pro because I assumed it actually worked. The basic was not working, but like a fool I presumed that was to get you to buy Pro, which I assumed would work.

Now I imagine that UNLESS you guys get this fixed, there will be NO POINT of anyone downloading even the FREE LW, because frankly a program that will not connect to the web is actually NOT ANY GOOD.

Does Limewire actually intend to fix this BLATANT ERROR - or at least WARN potential buyers that it is a lottery whether the program works or not?

I need a FIX NOW - if that cannot happen, then I suggest we all warn all those on our Address Books and Lists we belong to NOT TO BUY LIMEWIRE.

Any human Limewire employees out there reading this, do your company a favour and reply to me.

john@rondadirect.com

John

the deleting user preferences work for me on XP but not the first time as i did not shut down limewire from the sys. tray
thanks

Hey sdaswani i want to say thanks it worked.

I am another frustrated user. Limewire is very inconsistent. At times it works great and then there are days, weeks, even months that it won't work. I always update with the newest versions. I always read the forum. I always follow the steps they say to follow and still NOTHING is working. I have deleted all preferences. I have done it all and still nothing. I wish they could leave Limewire alone when it's working and stop messing it up for us. Please let me know when it works!!!

I am another frustrated user. I'm on OS X 2.8 and Limewire is very inconsistent. At times it works great and then there are days, weeks, even months that it won't work. I always update with the newest versions. I always read the forum. I always follow the steps they say to follow and still NOTHING is working. And I have paid my money for this to work. I have deleted all preferences. I have done it all and still nothing. I wish they could leave Limewire alone when it's working and stop messing it up for us. Please let me know when it works!!!

I purchased LW pro two months ago (twice - as the first one didn't work!). In that time I've managed to connect for maximum one hour. I have tried every single suggestion mentioned here with very little success. The only time I manage to connect is when I have explorer and LW open at the same time and sometimes after surfing the internet for a while and with LW open at the same time I can connect up and even then very rarely and not for long. I am running OSX 10.2.7 and am becoming very frustrated. Help anyone?

WELL DONE! It worked for me on WINXP, thanks!

I have OS XP and I have disabled tips at start up. worked once, then lost the connection in the middle of downloading. I do not have limewire in your_documents folder. So what now?

I completely exited LW, even sys tray icon. Went to add/remove and completely deleted it from my system. OH, PS before I did this, I did a search all files & folders, and found NOTHING! The reason it wasn't showing up in 'your_documents', I discovered, was that when I installed it both the first and second time, I opened and ran it from it's current location, I did not save it to disk. I re-installed it and now connecting is 'flighty'. it will connect for a few minutes, then go off, then automatically comes back on within a few minutes. Even when I am not connected, I still see the downloads in progress??? Well, I'll give it a few more days and hope it works. I know the admin. and mods. are doing all they can, but...
As far as purchasing the pro version, I DON'T THINK SO! I read on here where someone purchased it twice to try to correct the problem. (Boy, they saw you comming!) I'll keep my $20.00 and just go purchase a CD. Good luck!

Hi,

I'm using MacOS 9.2.2 and tried the latest beta version of LW as well as the official latest release. The beta doesn't run at all, the official release starts up and kind of freezes.

When I start up LW, it loads until it arrives at "core components". From there, is takes forever. After a while, I managed to load LW (took me 20 minutes) and turn off "conntect on startup". This prevented LW from freezing when arriving at "core components". However. as soon as I choose Connect from the file menu, it freezes again. It takes almost all CPU time and hardly allows any user input. The computer hardly responds to mouseclicks, LW doesn't respond at all.

Not being able to solve the problem, I decided to install old versions of Java and LW and installed several versions that used to work perfectly in the past. They just don't work anymore!

I had to reinstall LW because I had to reinstall the entire Mac for different reasons.

Reading the posts here, I get the impression that those who solved their problem have no understanding of what they did. They just kept trying until LW somehow worked again. I am looking for real solutions from people who know what's going on. Even if you don't have a solution but know why it doesn't work, I'd appreciate your explanations. I believe, I have tried everything by now.

Thanks,

Mark