Limewire remembers corrupt prefs
 

This is weird but extremely painful.

Have an external firewire hard drive called "Big Fat Mac 7". I use it to store music files, so I set up the "Music" folder on that drive as my shared folder and as my save folder.

I quit Limewire, unmounted (trashed) the firewire hard drive, then turned off the drive (I don't leave it on all the time).

The next time I turned on the drive, it remounted as usual. I started Limewire, but now it lists that drive as "Big Fat Mac 7 1". Everything seems to work, EXCEPT when I download songs into that folder, they disappear! I do a Sherlock search but the file is not on my hard drive.

So, I uninstalled Limewire using the uninstall application. I trashed the Limewire folder, even did a search for any file with the text "limewire" in the title on any of my drives and trashed them, including OS 9 files.

When I reinstall Limewire, it continues to find only "Big Fat Mac 7 1" and continues to prevent me from downloading. How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Brennan

I think your files might have gone to /Volumes/Big Fat Mac 7/<pathtoyourdownloadfolder>

When you ran Limewire with the drive disconnected, it simply created the folder it was looking for by itself. So when you mounted the drive again, it couldn't be mounted at /Volumes/Big Fat Mac 7/ and the System gave it a new name (Big Fat Mac 7 (1)). So Limewire is still using the directory it created itself, while your drive, using a new name, is ignored.

Use the "Go to folder" menu command and copy the files to your external drive in the finder, then remove the folder (to delete it, you might have to use the terminal and sudo or use another way to get root access) and remount your drive. It should have the original name again.