Thanks Songreviewer, but it really doesn't appear to budge. I am using Limewire 2.4.6 Pro and like you when I load in, the first bar turns green but it never increases up the connection level and then eventually times out after an hour or so.

I'm not sure what you meant, I loaded up, connected, then closed down L/W, closed it in my task bar and then reloaded it from the desktop. Nothing. Thanks for the advise. Any other suggestions, it's been down for a month now all over my holidays and i'm starting to go MAD!

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I'm using Mac OS 9.22 and dumping that folder solved my connection issue after a couple hours of pulling my hair out. Thanks!!!!!

I can't connect either. I have...

Windows XP (not SP2)
No firewall. I did figure out after reading this thread that I have the windows firewall running, but I followed the steps provided to (forgive my poor technical discriptions) let gnutella through.
512MB of Ram.
I believe I have 27.5 free GB of HD space.
I have a cable connection.
I am connecting from home with a Cyber Surf Wave modem provided by my ISP (Shaw Cable Systems) and I am connected through another computer with a Netblaster II wireless router.

I was once upon a time able to use Limewire, but one day lost my connection and never got it back- and like others thought that if I paid for Limewire it would work again to no avail. I have used Kazaa and Edonkey before with no problems. I, like everyone else am experiencing the "connecting" message with 1/5 green bars in the bottom left hand corner of my screen.

I clicked on the link provided by LOTR to see if a firewall was a problem and I loaded the page successfully which tells me my firewall is not a problem.

I followed all the steps correctly (I believe)

I have been
1. Closing Limewire
2.Making sure it is shut down from the system tray
3. Deleting the .limewire folder
4. Running Limewire
5 Changing the options from "Automatically connect..." so that it doesn't....(and clicking apply)
6. closing
7. Restarting from the desktop
8. Hitting my head on my desk. Sometimes my wall.

I am prone to user errors, or as my friends like to say ID10T errors.

One thing I have noticed is that it tells me that it can't run something to do with ITunes, which I don't really care about, but it seems abnormal so I thought I would report it here. If it makes a difference, I will try to get the message again if you need to know the exact details.

^here is the ITunes error:

"LimeWire was unable to start the Digital Audio Access Protocal Service (for sharing files in iTunes). This feature will be turned off. You can turn it back on in options, under iTunes.-> Sharing."

Likewise I once went thru a short period of DAAP iTunes errors, but I was using a LW beta at the time.

Unless you're connected to a network you don't need DAAP to be enabled.

Try these things:

1. Repair LimeWire using the Add/Remove Programs utility. Go to Control Panel then Add/Remove Programs & click on Limewire on the Change/Remove button & it comes up with options and one of them is Repair. Try this.

2. Right-clicking the Limewire icon and going to properties and changed compatability setting to Windows 2000.

3. Update your Java version 1.5 (take the JRE)

4. Right-click on the Limewire icon on the desktop and click on Run as. Then it should come up showing the current user and then switch it over to Administrator.

5. Delete the LW Preferences folder called .limewire (whilst LW is closed!) & found here: C:/Documents And Settings/your_username/.limewire

6. Try forcing ip: Force IP instructions & sample image


Open LW & let it try to connect for up to an hour. Then do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is it True/False?

Thanks for your help. I'm using Windows XP had problems downloading after a search, followed your directions and it appears to work now. I was careful to not only close LW but deleted the LW process that was running in background as well. Maybe this is causing some others a problem. Appreciate your support.

Bill

My problem sounds very much like "I really am Nikki's". I open Limewire and it stays at connecting forerver with only the tiny bar turning green. I also get the IPod error. I've tried deleting the preferences, I've enabled my Norton Internet Security to bypass the firewall and did the Windows Firewall enable stuff. I clicked on the test page link and that was succesful (which I believe means my firewall is ok?) but when I did the Bug report and sample image thing I got a false reading. Here's my computer information.

Windows XP with all current updates
Norton Internet Security
Plenty of Ram and hard drive space
I have a cable modem provided by Cox but I'm not sure what kind.

I read a suggestion earlier that Cox may be the problem but they deny blocking person to person transfers.

Thanks in advance for whatever help you can give.

I was gone for about three weeks and I've been back for one week and haven't been able to connect at all I press the connect button and it doesn't respond at all please help

i followed all the directions exactly and still cant connect. i have no firewalls connected. i deleted the reccomended limewire folder and reopened lw.after i reopened lw, i noticed that i still cant connect and im missing the search button thats usually located on the bottom left of the screen. this is frustrating..... help!

worked 4 me. also try exiting oput of lw on both the screen and toolbar then restarting it