when I try to connect I get a message saying 'Limewire has encountered an internal error.....' I delete the application and re-install but I get the same message every time.
I then got a message saying that a file associated with limewire was missing, and it asked if I wanted to re-associate the file and I selected yes but nothing has changed.
Please advise.

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