I occassionally get the Java error windows too. The Limewire error messages seems rather terse and useless; the "please cut and paste and email this error message to us" is ridiculous. The error messages thrown by Xolox are really informative (to a programmer, anyway) and they are automatically sent to the Xolox support team's web site. It's a really cool setup. Now is Xolox would also support live, automatic updates.

But I agree with your assessment--Limewire's stability seems to have degraded over the past few releases.

This is rediculous. This forum is based on a shoddy self help system. Endless posts about what people think is the reason for a problem and bad suggestions on how to fix it. Not one good answer from the developer. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away, and I'm tired of reading back and forth posts which amount to nothing more than a "No, YOUR stupid!" argument.

It is undoubtable that limewire 2.8.5 is rediculously flawed. It is undoubtable that much more than a fraction of an improvement to the download errors can be obtained by the users. Limewire needs to do something about this. I would never register a program this bad. I used limwire 2.7 and considered supporting p2p sharing (registering), but it has become apparent that I might as well just throw my money in the gutter. I would never pay for a program with a degrading future. It's barely useable now.

Someone from the inside should explain this "could not move to library" issue. It's a lot better than a hundred people randomly guessing at what's wrong! Throw us a bone man!

Guys, guys, guys !!!!

If you continue to ignore the "Could not move to library" problem, it is going to kill this product !!!!!!!!!

I have spent considerable time experimenting with different solutions and nothing *fixes* it. I have tried every version from 2.6.3 to 2.8.6 and they all do it. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it numerous times. I have lost at least 50 downloads.

There are numerous complaints in this forum and I have only seen a few explanations. None of these explanations hold water.

Explanation # 1. The file has special characters. Response: I did not see any special characters in any of the 50+ downloads that failed. Are the special characters hidden?

Work-around #1. Kill the download before it finishes and restart it. Response: If the problem is special characters, then why does killing the download and restarting it work??? It should fail either way, right?

Don't take my word for it. Search through this forum and read all of the different comments where people HAVE had success with this work-around.

Explanation # 2. The file was corrupted. Response: Limewire only reported corruption in 1 of the 50+ files.

Explanation # 3. Hard drive is full. Response: I have over 50 megs. available on my hard drive.

Explanation # 4. The problem is caused by a Firewire drive. Response: I do not have a Firewire drive.

Explanation # 5. Insufficient system memory. Response: I upgraded from 128 megs to 256 megs of ram and still get this error.

Work around #2. Go to the Incomplete folder and move the file manually. Response: I have not been able to find any of the 50+ downloads that failed with this error. It appears that Limewire deletes the file from the Incomplete folder BEFORE it determines that it can't save it to the Shared folder.

Don't take my word for it. Search through this forum and read all of the different comments where people have NOT had success with this work-around.

At this point, I have completely given up on Limewire. I have not had a successful download in 2 weeks!!! I really like the product and I am not trying to slam it. I just want some one to take the problem seriously and fix it.

Thanks!
Lee

Well, I tried to download a 500MB plus download from limewire. I found that when the file said, "could not move to library", that I would kill the download and restart the download, and it would pick up where it started. Sometimes it would pop the message back up immediatly, and sometimes it wouldn't. It seems to depend on who it's downloading it from.

I'm using a quicksilver g4 Mac and 2.7.3. I suggest when you get that error, search for the file. When you find the file with THE EXACT SIZE AND NAME, kill the failed download and download the new file. It should pick up from the download from where it left off. If it fails immediatly again, find the file again, kill the failed download, and start the download on the new file again. But quit the program immediatly before it connects. This will keep the program in the data. Then try again later.

This is only a suggestion. And I'm not sure if it will work on other platforms. The key elements is that the name and the size remain the same. Otherwise it will restart the download. I also set the pref's so that it will keep incomplete downloads for 60 days.

Another note: When I finished the file, the file was renamed to something along the lines of "party.mpg", which was much different from the .dmg file that I intended to download. Renaming the file, I found that the data was OK. Maybe the problem is that the file matching feature of limewire confuses the file for another of similar size, and then errors when the data doesn't match. That's just a guess. See my above gripe if you like to listen to angry rants.

I recently installed DEADwire (based on a friends recommendation) and have tried to download several files. If the download is completed (a big if) IN EVERY CASE I receive the message "cannot move to library" in all other cases I receive the message "requery sent waiting". I HAVE YET TO DOWNLOAD ONE FILE SUCCESSFULLY! When viewing the forums such as this one I note that this is not only a common problem but is getting worse! Obviously the powers to be at DEADwire are incapable of solving the problem or worse do not care! In either case when enough members leave, maybe they will then have enough spare time on their hands to rectify the problem. I can assure you that I will do my best to keep new members from joining.

I have better things to do with my time then baby sit this program!
Adieus!!!!!!

2.8.6 PRO doesn't work either, and their supposed "support" is total crap. Emails to Limewire get the same response that the file's too big, it has strange characters, or you don't have enough disk space.

All this is crap. I used the free version of 2.6.2 and had no problems with it, but then I started getting messages that it would stop working soon unless I upgraded. So I bought the Pro version of 2.8.6 and now it totally blows.

I never had a problem like this with any other gnutella program. And the worst part is that limewire couldn't seem to care less.

I guess it's back to Xolox. Screw limewire.