stalling and crashing on osx
 

:mad: I just purchased the new limewire 4.10.5 Pro and it is constantly crashing and stalling, far more than my old lime wire program. What can I do to correct the problem? I'm running osx.3.9. If it's a problem consistent with limewire and macs (and from the looks of the other posts it may be) I think it's your company's responsibility to warn me of the potential difficulties.

Re: stalling and crashing on osx
 

LimeWire do not own or run this forum. This is the Gnutella forums which cater for many gnutella programs. Limewire is one of them & is the most popular.

Try changing the skin & see if you still have the same problems. Go to menu bar, View>Change Skins.

Also check the Stickies out in the OSX sections for the forums. QuickTime 7.0.4 has major bugs with Java. The Stickies list the common problems faced by people. Quick answers to problems you may face.

BTW how long after you open LW does it crash? How much HDD free space do you have? How much ram?

As a Pro member, you can get direct Pro help from here http://www.limewire.com/english/content/support.shtml Check the link at the top for Pro support help.

I am having a similar problem, with LM Basic 4.10 on OS10.3.9. The problem actually started about a month ago, before I upgraded from LM 4.9 to 4.10. The program just keeps quitting unexpectedly on me (and that is the error message I get). I now have seven in progress downloads that I can't seem to finish off (as much as 95%!) because everytime I start back up again, I'm always waiting on busy hosts. Shortly after it finally does start downloading something, it quits! I seem to be uploading quite fine (with the exception that it quits), but I can't seem to download anymore. I have 10Gigs free on my HD, and 512mb ram. I've even closed all other programs, but it doesn't seem to help the problem. If I don't find a solution soon, I am going to give up entirely on the whole thing because clearly I have more important things to do with my day.

I'm having the same problem. OS 10.3.9, 1 gig ram, and the latest version of Limewire. It had started crashing on the free Limewire version and I thought the problem might go away when I went for Pro. Stll crashes unexpectedly. I asked support for advice last weekend but still have heard nothing - Limewire doesn't support Mac very well. They probably don't have a clue. Have you figured ut the problem?

How much spare space do you have on the OSX system HDD or partition? That is important. The problem is generally Java. But then, your problem sounds like a general utilities run over might not do it harm. Repair permissions with Disk Utility after a safe boot. And then use the repair from Disk Utility on the install disk.

Also consider Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue! as this can add a lot to Virtual Memory (VM) use. Reduction in incompletes will reduce HDD space used via VM.

Just updated to LM 4.12, and recently performed much cleanup and repair on my HD, but still within an hour LM quits, even if I couldn't get any downloads started, with only two in the line, and the incompletes is empty. I now have 35Gb free on my HD, and nothing else running, but it always quits, usually within an hour of connecting, even if nothing has gone up or down.

Can you find your crash report & post most of it here (or copy it into a text document like textedit & include as an attachment here). If you double-click the report, console will open it. You'll find crash reports here: user account->Library->Logs->CrashReporter-> (look for LimeWire) & also, do you see many java crash logs in there?

I'm not very good at reading crash logs but someone else might be able to deciphor it.

Also, you can run the LW Console for a short time (perhaps 20 seconds) & include the report as a text attachment here. Instructions on how to use the LW console can be found in the LW Beta archives section.

These reports will hopefully show where the problem is.

Stalls/ freezes
 

G4, 125ghz, OS10.4.6, LW 4.12.6...

I would love to open a crash log, but LW just freezes up, when I hit quit nothing happens, when I go to Force Quit, it doesn't show LW as not responding (it just doesn't do anything, can't click or move anything)

When I restart all seems fine.... but I haven't sat there & watched the freaking screen waiting for it to freeze. This has only started happening recently...

Try these things:
1. Delete the LW prefs folder whilst LW is closed. Found here /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

2. Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue!

BTW are you sharing from external drives?

Hey thanx....
 

It seemed to work, and like a knucklehead, gee why don't I try to find some of those obscure tokyo garage bands from the 70's.... bad ideal.... more zero download files.... purged again, we'll see what happens.... I'm going to back off a bit on the searchs.

I am using an external HD for both my download folder location & shared folders. What would happen if I moved the application there? Can it run from there or does it need to be on the same HD as the internet link & the OS???

When ever I use LW, all of the other internet things SLOOOOOOW WAAAAY down.... so I generally set up searchs and go too bed.... kind of like fishing at night and waking up too see what I've caught....

Thanx for the help....
steve