suddenly, I can no longer point to my music directory to save files
 

I have been pointing to my music directory where I keep all my music (c:\My Music) even w/ the most recent version of Pro (2.4.4), then suddenly, 2 days or so ago, Limewire switched itself to the limewire shared directory & will NOT let me point back to this folder saying it's in an invalid directory for saving files I should choose another or use the default. It was working fine before, don't know why it's suddenly invalid. Must have download about 1000 files this way....maybe 50 or so w/ the newest version before it seems to have changed itself....

What happened? How can I get it to point back? I don't want to move all my files to another directory as I point to this directory w/other programs & it's be a lot of other changes I'd have to make as well....

Thanks!

I've no idea what the problem might be but...

It is possible you have some file system corruption - try doing a checkdisk or scandisk or whatever its called on your version of windows (a thorough check may need you to reboot your computer).

Mark

Checkdisk found no errors & it didn't fix the problem. I have Windows XP if that would make any difference, though it was working fine before, so I don't know why it wouldn't be now. Any more ideas?

LimeWire may not have permission (privileges) to write to My Music?

Nope, that's not it as it will let me create another folder C:\my_music & download there--the only difference being the underscore--it's like limewire updated itself & suddenly wouldn't recognize a file name w/ a space in it when it would before. All I did was change the icon & designate the folder as a music folder & then this one stopped working--but that's not the reason as I've changed the icon back & the other folder is also designated a music folder. Any other ideas?

I also have this problem
 

I also have this problem and am running XP. I also have my system spontaneously reboot after 10 to 40 minutes.

My problem was solved by simply creating a new folder of the same name, moving everything there & deleting the old folder. I've never had problems w/ spontaneous reboots. Praise be.

The folder you're pointing to us probably flagged as Read Only. You'd need that clear that attribute. If this is a Windows machine, it would be better to put all the songs in a folder within My Documents rather than just under the root directory.

I have exactly the same problem in that for many versions of LimeWire Pro I have always had my downloads go to E:\My Music with nary a problem ever until version 2.65 or 2.7 (can' t seem to remember when this issue started) at which point my default save issues became the same as previously posted here.

One observation though since I have no answers just more questions -

1. LimeWire Automatically creates a folder in my E: drive root calles "Incomplete" and no matter how many times I delete it the next time I start LimeWire it recreates it. This folder never has a file in it so why does it create this.
2. Further to that If I select as my save directory E:\My Music\Incomplete (not to be confused with E:\Incomplete) all of my downloads are successfully saved there. Go figure! This is a bug in the software not in my settings or permissions.

Gratefull for any assistance for it is a pain to think that I have to attempt to modify all of my other proggies that use My Music to compensate for this.

The Incomplete folder holds files as they're being downloaded. Once the download is complete the file is moved into your destination file. So LimeWire must have that Incomplete folder available to do its job. No point in deleting it, as it will always come back.

Don’t use the Incomplete folder as your download location. Use some other folder. Let LimeWire create and manage the temporary files in Incomplete on its own, and just forget that Incomplete even exists. Use E:\My Music or whatever as your download folder.

When I attempt to point to any another folder inside of the E:\My Music folder except Incomplete (E:\My Music\Incomplete) I am get the message that "Invalid Directory for saving files. Choose another or revert to the default" which is not very helpful. I can also point it to the E:\Incomplete folder and it also is accepted. No other folder is accepted as a save directory.

Exceptions. I can choose as my save directory any root drive I want. In my case I have 5 partitions all in excess of 20 GB with at least 40% free space on every one. I can select any one of them and they are accepted so my save directory becomes C:\ or D:\ or E:\ or whatever I choose. So I then created a new folder in the root directory called Unsorted or My Music and I then I selected it as the save folder and it worked. BTW it also created another Incomplete folder in this directory. It should be smarter than that by creating one inside the save folder not outside however I see the logic in not having more than one Incomplete folder per root direcory.

Therefore I must come to the conclusion that there is an issue with my current My Music folder and all of my previously created folders. I run WIN XP Pro SP-1 and I have checked the permissions for all folders and they are identical - including the new folders I created. So I then reset all of the permissions on the folder to make sure but no change in the original problem.

I am next goint move all of my music to another folder delete the My Music folder and then rename the New Folder "My Music" and see if it works. This however does not address why this has happened to so many of us. Your assistance is greatly apprecaiated.

This may be a duplicate. I am not sure if my post went or not.

When I attempt to point to any another folder inside of the E:\My Music folder except Incomplete (E:\My Music\Incomplete) I am get the message that "Invalid Directory for saving files. Choose another or revert to the default" which is not very helpful. I can also point it to the E:\Incomplete folder and it also is accepted. No other folder is accepted as a save directory.

Exceptions. I can choose as my save directory any root drive I want. In my case I have 5 partitions all in excess of 20 GB with at least 40% free space on every one. I can select any one of them and they are accepted so my save directory becomes C:\ or D:\ or E:\ or whatever I choose. So I then created a new folder in the root directory called Unsorted or My Music and I then I selected it as the save folder and it worked. BTW it also created another Incomplete folder in this directory. It should be smarter than that by creating one inside the save folder not outside however I see the logic in not having more than one Incomplete folder per root direcory.

Therefore I must come to the conclusion that there is an issue with my current My Music folder and all of my previously created folders. I run WIN XP Pro SP-1 and I have checked the permissions for all folders and they are identical - including the new folders I created. So I then reset all of the permissions on the folder to make sure but no change in the original problem.

I am next going to move all of my music to another folder delete the My Music folder and then rename the New Folder "My Music" and see if it works. This however does not address why this has happened to so many of us. Your assistance is greatly apprecaiated.

If you're talking about the My Music folder that appears in My Documents, you don't want to delete that because it's built-in. If I were you I'd create a folder named Downloaded Music on whichever drive you want to use (other than C). And use that as your download folder.

See my previous reply regarding the Incomplete folder.

Also, you can't use a folder that's flagged as Read Only as the download folder for LimeWire. So after you create that Downloaded Music folder, you may want to right-click its icon and make sure the Read Only option isn't selected, so you can then point to it from within LimeWire.

Really, try to stay away from using My Music as the name of your folder. You're going to complicate things because there's already a built-in folder named My Music.

Sorry I did not make it clear earlier. When I do a clean install of WIN XP one of the first things I do is to move the "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents" folder and it's contents to F:\My Documents. And the "My Music" folder I refer to is in here. I created a new folder called "My Music 1" and successfully downloaded several filed into it. I then created another folder called "My Music" in G:\Backups\My Music and LimeWire hac no problem here either. On the read only issue - all of my folders are read only by default and when I attempt to remove it all returns t0 read only almost instantly.

Seems like a silly thing to work on a small problem so hard.

OUt of Ideas

Paul

i am running windows xp and just installed lime wire and am haveing the same prob not shure what to do

ditto. too many other sharing progs and it's not worth this much effort.
WinMX Kazaa and XoloX have no problem sharing same dl folder