".limewire" questions: copying and hacking
 

Happy New Year everyone! I have 2 questions re: .limewire.

1. I do full reinstalls, not "upgrades." Just personal preference because I like everything "contiguous" on the hard drive following a defrag. With Firefox for example, you can copy your profile folder or any elements of it, and drag them into a new profile. I'm wondering if Limewire allows you to do the same - burn your .limewire prefs folder to disk, and re-insert should you upgrade. I realize there might be compatiblity issues as versions improve (4.1, 5.1, etc) - but does anyone do that?

2. I love Carbon Classic Theme. I'd like to get rid of the Black Theme, Windows, and any others (you might have to keep "default" and "other"?). How is that done - they seem to reconstruct themselves as soon as they're deleted.

Thanks in advance - I'm reloading 4.10 today and wanted to clarify the above before I do it.

By full installs do you mean you uninstall first then reinstall. Or do you go through and manually delete all files and folders after uninstall.

If you just uninstall first you will not need to burn your .limewire folder it should remain in C:/Documents and Settings/User Name your data and .bak files should remain in the incomplete folder. You may want to make copies of them but I have never had a problem.

Your Themes folder is located in C:/Documents and Settings/User Name/.limewire you should be able to delete them from there.

Sorry! To clarify: I use AddRemove, then delete manually the Limewire Program folder and .limewire folder, and all reg entries. I restart, and then install new version and reset prefs.

Re: themes, I have found and deleted extra themes per that path, but they "resurrect themselves" upon reopening the program. There are the theme "files" and above them the folders for that theme - I delete both - but they return. Optimally I would like to keep default and CarbonClassic ONLY, so others never appear again. If that's not possible that's fine - I was just wondering.

I will try burning .limewire to CD, and should I do subsequent reinstalls, try dragging that replacement (obviously making sure it's not marked "read only" coming from a CD) - and see if it works. It would save having to re-enter filters, junk prefs, regular prefs, etc. I much appreciate the response, Grandpa - thank you.

It is odd that they are coming back. When I read your post earlier I deleted the black theme both the folder and the .lwtp file and it did not and has not resurrected itself. Do you have some kind of recovery tool running on your machine that may be recovering them.