For those who are having trouble connection to the Gnutella network using LimeWire, we have a potential fix. You need to delete your WHOLE LimeWire preferences directory. The directory can be found in the following locations:

OS X:
/Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

Windows:
C:/Documents And Settings/your_username/.limewire

Linux:
~/.limewire

Please shutdown any instance of LimeWire you may have running, delete the whole directory, and then restart LimeWire. You should be able to connect.

I'd love to hear how this works for everyone.

Thanks!
Susheel Daswani
Software Engineer
Lime Wire LLC

One side effect of this potential fix is that you'll lose ALL your preferences. You'll need to reset them. For most users this shouldn't be too huge a deal.....

If you really want you can keep the deleted directory around and simple move your limewire.props file to the new directory, but this may invalidate the fix.

We will hopefully discover what is causing this issue and integrate an automated fix in a future version.

It didn't work on OS X.

I didnt work for me either on WinXP

didnt work..green light only goes on for about 1 or 2 seconds and that happened before i tried this deleting prefrences thing.. help please

I'm sorry to hear this method isn't working for people. One thing: are you positive you 1) completely closed limewire (this means making sure that the limewire icon is not residing in your system tray, dock, etc.) and then 2) deleted the appropriate directory and then 3) restarted LimeWire?

I should have made step 1 more clear - you need to make sure LimeWire is totally shutdown before attempting this fix.

Thanks!
Susheel

Hi Susheel!

Thanx you for supporting us! I appreciate that! I have Mac OS 10.2
I don´´t have a Limewire Libary in my preferences and i cant can connect :-)
I hope you can help me out!

Greetings from Vienna, Austria

Vincent

Right On!It Worked For Me And I Have Xp Maybe The Other Xp Usere Deleted The Wrong File...
Thanks So Much For The Info

i tried to shutdown limewire and deleted the directory c:\windows\.limewire.

but still the same i can't connect.

what's wrong?

i am using windows 98 and this "C:/Documents And Settings/your_username/.limewire" i know is only for windows xp.

any work around for windows 98?

hope i can connect soon.

thanks.

i shut down LW, i exited the tray icon, i deleted c:\windows\Owner\.limewire, i reopened LW and was able to connect long enough to seach and being downloading 5 songs, then i was disconnected, i tried the same 3-step process again and am unable to connect for more than 1-2 secs at a time... what to do?
im gonna try a third time... but....

help!