I just upgraded from an older version of LimeWire (circa 1.8 I think, though I didn't check prior to upgrading.) That version was working just fine for me - no problems at all. But seeing that 2.0 had so many new features, I upgraded, and bought the pro version.

Now, when I try to download files of any type, I am never able to. They ALL say 'waiting for busy'. I've been using Limewire a long time - certainly I've gotten plenty busy messages in teh past, but not this many.

What could I have done wrong? What is configured wrong making all my downloads "fail" like this?

I should add:
- searches work fine, I get plenty of results from one to four stars (as configured)
- uploads work fine, I see the incoming searches normally, and someone is grabbing a shared file off my computer now
- I have the same problem no matter how many stars something has (though I typically just try 4 star items)

The only problem being, as described earlier, downloads never start. The ALL "wait for busy". I didn't have this problem until I upgraded earlier today.

Whoops, figured it out.

When I first installed the new LimeWire, it wsa crashing on startup. I then tried running it as root, and it worked fine. I then fixed the original problem, but by this time my 'Incomplete' folder was owned by root. Hence, any download that was attempted, failed due to write permissions. The only ones that didn't fail right away, were the ones truely stuck in a "waiting" queue...