Finally Limewire 4.10.9 fixed;-)
 

The latest 7.1.1 quicktime update from the software panel finally fixed my crashing Limewire....:)

Thanks for the info. Could you describe what the symptoms of the crashes were.

As Limewire would try to connect it would simply quit. The problem was, I think related to a past firewire bug. Now its fixed.;-):D

Well I never had that bug but! I didn't upgrade until I found out why my external firewire device stopped working with final cut pro. The previous QT 6's left overs in the receipts folder is what caused my problem. After that no QT version has affected me.

yeah I had tried that qt receipt fix, but it didn't work for me, thankfully apple's update did the trick.;-)

Good to hear!!! Thanks for letting us know!

well it was working fine for 2 days and then it began to quit again. Yeah Im stumped as well.....

Do a safe boot & repair permissions. That's a start. And remember a safe boot will take a lot longer to start up as you found out last time. In Tiger during the safe start it eventually comes up with a window asking if you want to continue with a safe start, press yes or continue. Of repairing permissions reboot normally.

If this doesn't help, then delete your LW preferences found here: /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

If reinstalling Java didn't help, perhaps reinstalling Tiger might help using the latest offline updater that includes all previous updates. That's a big download though.

The safe boot solved the problem; Limewire is back. Thanks.
Damn, a safe boot takes an abnormally long time..., Anyway, Im running 4.11 beta; and cant yet upgrade that version to pro. Also, where are the font settings? Thanks

Xcellent! Glad to hear that fixed it. ;) :)

erm ... font settings for LW? I didn't know it had any! :confused:

Did you know that if you are a presently registered pro user, you can download the pro beta? Go to your personal pro downld page & look at the bottom of that page & it will have a pro beta link. I'm using the pro beta 4.11.2
Or did you mean your pro registration with 6 months of free updates had finished.

somewhere there was a font smoothing pref....hmm

System Prefs > Appearance > Font Smoothing Style option at bottom ... is that the one?

In earlier OSX's I also thought there was a more obvious font smoothing option. If it exists in Tiger I can't find it.

For Java there's an option for font smoothing in the Java prefs "if" you're using Java 1.5 or later & Tiger or later; if you see Setting up Java 1.5 & tick 'Smooth all text in Java applets' option & save, then that might help. ;)

Limewire had been working nice; but soon after I updated and upgraded to Limewire Pro 4.12.6 the quit problem came back. I just did 2 safe boots, then trashed prefs. No luck yet. What java version should I try to reinstall, got a link? Thank you oh Lord;-)

You did safe boots, did that include repairing permissions? For Java see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...8&postcount=97 & perhaps also check the posts after that. If all else fails, try one of the nightly builds by Jum http://www.mager.org/LimeWire/ which are not the official LW, but are sort of beta developments.

Yeah the whole schmear; latest version; Pro; registered; safe boot; repaired permissions; trashed prefs; reinstalled the latest java, and reinstalled the combo update and it still quits. Concluded it must be a bug on their part.

It works fine on my mac. Did you try the jum version? There's some minor differences (the media player is disabled) but it's based on the same program. Try the nightly builds. Jum's innovations & bug findings have frequently been added to the public version.

K; I'll try Jum since I don't use their player; BTW; I timed the Safe Boot; at least on my system, I have to stare at the gray apple and hold down the shift key listening to that fan power up and then off for a full 10 plus minutes....

thanks;-)

It's normal for it to take much longer. I don't know why but even at apple's site they warn it takes much longer. 10 mins sounds a little too long but I guess it depends on model/system. I've heard of someone else complaining the same thing.

I think in Tiger all you need to do is log out unless I misread it. But I'm not so sure about that. I've never tried it by just logging out.

BTW something else you could try is creating a new account on your mac & installing LW on it. See if that works. If yes, then it is probably something in your account that is causing LW problems. It's very easy to swap between accounts in Tiger & quite cute the way it goes about it.

Well well well; got it to work by creating another user. (Made a copy and put it in 'shared' folder.) I just use fast user switching now. Much much easier than a safe boot;-) So it must be something on my system....hmm APE? Limewire is on the master exclude list. Anyway; can I leave it running on my second user while working on my main user side? Things will still continue downloading?

Thanks;-)

AFAIK Yes ;) :) It worked for me.

Excuse my ignorance but what is APE?

APE is unsanitys Application Enchancer system pref; responsible for many bugs because it changes basic system functions; but otherwise it does cool things:Smilywais:

http://www.unsanity.com/products/

With OSX's Java being as unstable as it is (pity Sun didn't develop it instead along with Java for all other platforms), then APE 'might' be triggering some type of issue. It's hard to know. I did see you can disable APE in the pref panes. But the problem might not be APE, it might be something else. :confused:

At any rate, I was an idiot for not _initially running limewire in a second user account. It is much more seamless; you can just do a fast user switch; and boom; up comes a full screen limewire in the process of downloading. It can download in my other user while I do important work in the main user :idea: :rolleyes_2: