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Connection Problems Problems getting the LimeWire or WireShare program connecting to the Gnutella network. (not about connecting to files, that is a Download/Upload Problems section issue.) Please supply system details as described in the forum rules.
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LW Prefs are/should be in a folder called '.limewire' note the dot in front. For me they're in Documents and Settings/User Name. Correct me anybody if I'm wrong here. They could be elsewhere for other people.
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LOTR,

That's where I find them too.

Did you give up the Mac? It sounds like you are using XP.

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Retired from mac now using pc. Reborn lotr.

Norm you're the 2nd person to ask me that question in the past 5 mins. lol Actually I'm using win 2k on a G4 using virtual pc. Slow as hell.
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OK, please bear with me if I don't have all the info you need as I am on a Mac and know nothing about them.

I am running OSX 10.1.5 with LW 4.0.8 on a cable connection (Roadrunner). The last time I used LW it ran fine (Saturday) and today it won't connect. It would say "connecting" but never go anywhere. Interestingly, someone was able to connect to me and start d/l a file but I was not able to do any searching etc.

I deleted the prefs file per the instructions in the forum and when I restarted LW it simply said "disconnected" and clicking the connect button did nothing.

I went to bug report and couldn't find anything about "incoming this session" but the "Ever accept incoming" was true. I started the Classic environment and ran LW 4.0.7, with the same problem (I was thinking maybe it was the upgrade). In this version, the error report does say "incoming this session" and it is false. I read that OSX has a native firewall, but I went to Prefs->sharing and did not see a firewall tab. If OSX has a firewall built in, how do I find it to see if it is on, and why would it suddenly start blocking LW when it hasn't in the past?

If the file that is used to store connection information has gone 'bad' (as one post mentioned), and I can't connect, how do I get a 'good' file? I couldn't find one on the LW site but I may have missed it.

Hopefully I can sort this out. It seems a lot of people are suddenly having this issue ... makes me wonder
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The no. of people who post probs here represent less than 0.1% of all users so I wouldn't necessarily agree with that statement. OSX's firewall is by default turned off. It is not a good idea to run LW in Classic envt. Better to boot into OS9 if you have a dual startup computer.

Check your Sys Prefs, Softw Update app & see if there's any java updates compatible with 10.1.5. For OSX I'd suggest it's rare for the dwnld prefs to become corrupted. Do a general maintenance run for your comp. Do a SAFE restart, & use Disk Utility to fix things. Alternatively, use the mac osx startup disk & choose disk utility & check your comp all over including repairing all permissions. See these threads (click on links): http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...6094#post96094 (permissions)
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...3462#post93462 If you have 3rd party utilities, it never hurts to give your system a run over (eg: Norton, DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, etc.) but make sure they're update for OSX 1.5 (that's very important!)
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I rebooted & ran disk utility and found no errors. I reinstalled LW and it still wouldn't connect. I rebooted again to Classic OS 9.2 and ran LW 4.0.7 and lo & behold, it connected fine!

I'm going to go back to OS X in a bit to see if 4.0.8 will run under it now. The computer does have a problem with its clock and when I use the apple server under OSX to set the time, it sets it to 1936. Maybe that's causing a problem somewhere.

A bit of a pain to have to run 9.2, but at least LW is working right!
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I'm behind university proxy and could not connect at first to gnuttela network with Bearshare so I switched to LW but same problem stayed.
Than I tried with force IP option and it worked!

Hope this will help someone
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Well, I've tried everything I could find and nothing has worked. Looks like its time to uninstall Limewire and go back to Kazaa. It was nice while it lasted.
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ive also tried everything.my firewall is off and it still wont connnect??port 6346 is allowed to connect and it wont work.i delete the LM file as it was explained in the beginning of this thread and it didnt work.i deleted the tip of the day and the auto start option and it did not work nothin works messin with the computer made it worse.it use to stay at poor connection now it wont connect at all.help!!!!!!!!!! i really dont want to use kazaa
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