[Fatal Error] :1:146: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity r
 

Hi Im running Limewire 4.12.3 on mac os 10.4.5
java 1.5.0_06

I have a lot of incomplete downloads and they havent been downloading well or turning up in searches

I opened the CONSOLE LOG of mac osX and found loads of these warnings which I think are relating to limewire searches?

[Fatal Error] :1:146: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.

does anyone understand this FATAL ERROR and what I can do to fix it?


Thanks

these are some other errors

[Fatal Error] :1:147: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
[Fatal Error] :1:147: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
[Fatal Error] :1:267: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x4) was found in the value of attribute "title" and element is "audio".
[Fatal Error] :1:537: Attribute name "DRM" associated with an element type "audio" must be followed by the ' = ' character.
[Fatal Error] :1:131: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
[Fatal Error] :1:131: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.


[Fatal Error] :1:125: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity.


I wonder if i need to update my java or if limewire is not making searches properly?

Make a note of all your LW settings. Then close LW & delete your LW preferences folder found here: /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

I don't know the reason for the problem. There are some characters that can't be used to save a file in OSX that's all I know. But I don't think that's the issue. Hopefully it's only a corrupt prefs setting(s) that's the issue.

As far as incompletes go, yes I tend to collect large numbers also & not willing to let them go because they're all rare files. But just in case, have you seen this: Recognising fake files

BTW if your incompletes are more than 18 months old, then there's a high possibility LW won't be able to continue them due to the differences between LW now & back then. In which case you might want to consider this Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue!
I did it recently but arranged my incomplete folder by date & got rid of the old ones. Actually some of the audio & video files were still playable so I've kept them for use but removed from incompletes folder.

great thanks for the tip

the oldest incomplete is from august

but

just before I delete the preferences folder Im wondering if this will also delete the partial imcomplete downloads I have already?

Ive a load of almost finished big files and I think I might jump off a tall building if they were all deleted or I had to start again!!

No. The downld prefs are stored in the incomplete folder & are called downld.dat & .bak so they're in a totally different location. ;) :)

thanks - do you mean delete the whole folder containing 26 items?

I was expecting just to see a file called preferences in this folder

My prefs folder has 34 items in it but yes, that's the one. But only whilst LW is closed!!! To reiterate: /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

just lost 4 gig of downloads because when you delete the prefs folder the pref for how long to keep files defaults to 7 days

so it has just deleted about 150 files that I had been downloading

no chance of getting them back now - gone for ever

I not happy

ok correction

any files that were modified in the last 7 days were kept but I have lost at least 130 files and I have no way of knowing what those files were

they werent moved to the trash so that I could have an option of going backwards (ie being able to put them back into the incomplete folder and reload)

Im pretty pissed off I have to say

despite your 19,465 posts you didnt know that Limewire was going to do this ??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:-(

I not happy at all

Well the 7 day limit is default, but most people change it. Mine is set to 999 days & you should do something similar or change it to 9999 days.

Where is the location of your download folder? If it is in your prefs folder then that's silly. And if it's within your program folder then that's also silly, in case you should upgrade & reinstall over it.

I didn't know you'd suffer this issue because it's the 1st time I've heard of it. Everybody's system is set up differently. Some put their downloads into their program folder & then are surprised when they upgrade LW that their downloads are gone. I mean the default location is outside of this folder so ...

BTW have a look at all the Stickies in OSX lw section. Have a look here at the link for utility that backs up ... http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=36378

my prefs were set to 999days

what do you think happens to my prefs when I delete the prefs ?
(as you told me to do)

the prefs revert to the default which is 7 days, which you should really know and if you did know this you wouldnt have advised me wrongly

sounds like you are back tracking on a confident response you made to my query

my downloads folder is on the root directory of the hard drive, I created it myself and gave it a specific name

one click on the hard drive and i can see it

when you delete preferences Limewire defaults to 7 days.
I had set this to 999 days before
but when you delete prefs this goes to 7 days
the only way to change this is to launch Limewire
When you launch it deletes old files
There is no way to save them from this
I went straight into prefs and set it back again to 999 days
but the files had been deleted on start up
something a real expert would know

You dont seem to be aware of this and yet you are posing as some sort of expert on limewire on this forum????????????

I explicitly asked you if deleting the prefs would delete any of my incompletes

you assured me that no this wouldnt happen

then I find that it will only keep whats changed in the last 7 days by default

Im not silly

You are silly

Dont ask me a question that you dont know the answer to and then presuming I have messed up call me silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I am silly then you are much more silly

Silly billy!!

You seem to think you are an expert in this forum, swaning around giving people advice but you screwed up on something very simple here today and Im really annoyed at you

You are telling me now, after the fact, that you didnt know I suffered from this problem but you told me what the solution is?

How can you offer a solution when you are admitting that you dont know what the problem was????????

In a previous post I asked

"just before I delete the preferences folder Im wondering if this will also delete the partial imcomplete downloads I have already? "

Your reply was

"NO"

If you were an expert and you knew something about Limewire what your answer should have been was:

"be very careful, you could loose some files, because when you delete your preferences Limewire defaults to only keeping files that are 7 days old. The only way to change the days from 7 to 999 is to launch Limewire and go into the preferences. But once you launch Limewire it will look at the old downloads and use its default preferences to delete any old downloads. In other words if you delete the preferences folder it will delete any incomplete download that has a modification date older than 7 days from today"

If you had told me that then that would have been expert advice and I wouldnt have deleted my prefs folder.
I at least could have made a copy of the files and then could have searched for them again.
As it is now I have no record at all of what has been deleted.
I might have read a newspaper one day and searched for something or had a conversation with someone which triggered a search but now that is all gone.
Totally unretrievable

Gone forever.

You gave me crap, illinformed advice and Im annoyed at you.

You should appologise instead of trying to call me silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not an expert & do not pretend to be so. I try to help where I can. I've been using LW for 4-5 years. Deleted my prefs many a time, sometimes just to experiment for users such as you on the forum. But I have never seen that problem immediately after deleting my lw prefs folder.

I can assure you , since I almost ONLY search for "rare" files, if my incomplete files become corrupt because I accidentally jumped back a version or whatever, I try to move on. Put it down to experience. As frustrating as it might be. Besides, if you've had LW for longer that 18 months, the due to the changes within LW, there would have been incompletes you would never have been able to resume anyway.

Sorry if my suggestion caused you problems & havoc, etc. But it was the most obvious suggestion to make. You could always buy pro & ask their support. I'm sure they'd know better than me.

BTW if you're using LW 4.12 then any files you've downlded during that period will recontinue from where they were. Just go to the LW Library window & resume those incomplete files from the incomplete folder. Also re-search those files to try to find sources for them. LW 4.12 is the 1st version that will recontinue downlds from where they were should they become corrupt.

Thank you Sleepless

If you delete your preferences there is a 100% chace that you will be left with the default preferences next time you launch the application

the default is keep any files that are 7 days old

delete any others

this is what Limewire does the first time you launch it after deleting the prefs folder

a very simple and basic aspect. Pretty logical if you think about it. If you actually remember what the default setting of 7 days is.

Limewire pro support have never responded to my emails despite buying the software and 6 month updates several times.

I know that you're p*ssed, but no matter how much you moan about it the files wont just reappear. Normally they are left intact even if it goes back to the 7 days limit.

Is there no software to search the computer for deleted files, that you know of?
I use Windows myself so wouldn't know about any for OSX.

If you are able to find some of those deleted files, there is a good chance that you can restart them by finding the file in a search, start the download and then close Limewire.

Then take the original file and replace the new file

Note: Filenames have to match exactly. If you need to rename, then rename the old file or Limewire wont recognise it.

P.S. Losing 4 Gigs isn't that bad + many of them you probably would have a hard time finishing anyway.

P.P.S. starting an argument with the site administrator = Not a good idea

Who is sleepless?

Are you suggesting that I would be sleepless after loosing hard found files? after waiting weeks for them to download?

How can I resume incomplete files when they have been deleted from the moment I launched Limewire, after deleting its preferences?

I dont even have the name of those file yet alone the data that I spent weeks waiting to download - some of the files were at over 90% and now they dont exist

there is no way to recover them and no way to even find out what they were called thanks to your WRONG advice to delete my preferences folder for Limewire

When it launches for the first time (after deleting the preferences) it will scan the old downloads, and it tells you its doing it (and theres nothing you can do to stop it) and it will delete any file older than 7 days

thats it,

you are left with what remains

:confused:

:eek:


:mad:

I am Sleepless

We had a chat about this problem elsewhere. I didn't want to post because I don't use OSX myself

I think its important for users of this site to know that the advice they are getting might not be totally accurate?

my experience today would seem to prove that point

Im not starting ANY arguement here

I am simply pointing out that the advice I got was WRONG

plain and simply wrong

it didnt work

I lost a lot of files

Are you telling me that I didnt loose a lot of files

are you telling me that Limewire doesnt default to 7 day downloads and deletes anything older?

Are you telling me there was a way to avoid this??

If there was I would really like to have known this before

Dont pull the "Im the administrator" card on me

Thats just wriggling backwards

Get into your head that this does not normally happen. This is the first I have heard of this too. I have advised tons of people as well to delete that folder, and have never got any feedback about incompletes dissappearing

Also EVERYONE makes a mistake from time to time. Are you saying that you never gave some advise that backfired. If so, then what a boring antisocial life you must have.

And again. DOES OSX NOT HAVE PROGRAMS AVAILABLE THAT CAN FIND DELETED FILES AND RESTORE THEM????

Do you both live in the middle of the atlantic and if so does that make you both fish?

Incompletes have an age, they are not immune - this has massive implications if the default preference is set to 7 days

any file whos modification date is older than 7 days will be totally and utterly deleted

the file will be deleted along with it the name and whatever data was downloaded

Im writing this so that other users who do a search will find this and not make the same SAD mistake that I have just made

Simple fact is, deleting your LW user preferences should not in any way affect your download prefs. It looks to me like after re-opening LW & resetting options you have set them differently to before such as the download location. (I've used LW in OS 8, OS 9, OS 10.2, OS 10.3, OS 10.4, windows 2000, windows XP, but never seen or even heard of your problem before. I've deleted the LW prefs in all but one of those OS's.) This suggests to me a user issue.

Don't blame us for your "own" user mistakes.

Like a broken record :D

Grow up and try to fix the problem.

Actually only I live in the middle of the Atlantic, well the country is in the middle of the atlantic, but like in the rest of your posts here you only see what you want to see.

You don't even want to find a solution to your problem, just moan moan moan

Getting tired of the same thing over and over again so bye

BTW I wish all the Irish luck there is for you. But just don't frig the members of this forum around. We try to help ... don't abuse our efforts without even looking at our ideas.

Just here to make trouble huh ... ? Wait till we get the king hitter onto you if that's what you really wish.