I had a message saying the limewire shut down unexpectedly and I guess I did not eject before turning the computer off. It gives the options of relaunch, send report, and ignore. When I click relaunch it just keeps giving me the same message even when the message turns to reset and relaunch. I will not work either.I have tried to trash limewire and reload it but....nothing changes. Help?

Which OSX version are you using? Which version of LW?

1. Do a Safe boot & repair permissions, then reboot normally. See SAFE Boot & Repair Permissions (ignore the File System Check and Repair (fsck) for now)

2. Whilst LW is closed, delete your LW preferences folder, instructions here: Deleting LW Preferences folder in OSX

If still no good, report back. Stief might have some ideas.

using mac osx leopard, tried getting rid of limewire in preferences folder but no help. I am new to mac so details will help me. Thanks so much.

mac osx 10.5

Let's see what suggestions Stief has. At this point he is not using LW 5 however he might have some suggestions all the same.

My only other suggestions would be to remove the install limewire.pkg file from the library folder & reinstall LW. Receipts folder sample image. Other than that, trying LW in a separate account to see if same problems. And last suggestion would be downgrading to LW 4.18, however let's see if Stief has any suggestions first.

Oh ... one more suggestion, go to menu bar, top-left corner click on Apple icon & you will see a menu appear. Choose Software Update to see if any updates are ready for you. Sample image here Updating Apple software such as Java.

No additional specific solutions here, sorry. LOTR has the main ones already covered (installing in a new account is probably not practical)

However, the latest version of 5.1 was just released, and helped one other 10.5 user. Maybe that will work.