ps i am also trying the frostwire forum. just thought id let u know so i can maybe give u any info that they come up with.

Hi everyone,

You are probably all barking up the wrong tree updating Java and fiddling with firewalls (if the problem is that LW used to work and now it doesn't).

The problem is to do with the Gnutella Web Cache (GWebCache) - basically this is a bunch of web servers which have a persistent memory of other peers on the network - without it everyone would be blindly trying all machines on the internet on all ports until it found someone to pair with.

Somehow this has got out of date in LimeWire and you can't set it to something new in the LimeWire preferences.

This is how I fixed it on my Mac - I have no idea about XP...

1. Quit LimeWire completely

2. Find LimeWire's gnutella config file and move it somewhere else e.g. on Mac rename ~/Library/Preferences/LimeWire/gnutella.net
to ~/Library/Preferences/LimeWire/gnutella.net.old

3. go here Gnutella web cache scan report and copy a high ranking GWebCache URL into your copy buffer (e.g. Skulls! Multi-Network WebCache 0.2.8) (note: use the URL of that link, not the underlined text)

4. Create a new file called ~/Library/Preferences/LimeWire/gnutella.net containing the GWebCache URL (e.g.
Skulls! Multi-Network WebCache 0.2.8) and nothing else (well maybe a newline after it)

5. Start LimeWire again
(I had to quit and restart LW one more time before I could type in the search box for some reason)

note that you may have broken some other config (e.g. firewall setting) while trying to get LW to work.

Someone should post this as sticky (with Windows instructions) if it helps a lot of people.

I did a search in files and folders and windows found gnutella.net I right clicked on it and renamed it to gnutella.old I closed the search box and fired up limewire and it connected like it used to before after about 30 seconds. Thank you very much for your post, everything else I tried from this thread failed to work. very simple solution to a frustrating problem, thanks again.

This worked GREAT!!! the answer to all my problems!!! U ROCK!!

This may be my problem I don't have a gnutella in my files and folders.
How do I fix that???

how do i create a new file though?

worth noting that the cache file is rewritten (with all original urls) by default once LW is restarted regardless of the above editing but it's interesting that some users are finding that this solution works although as yet I've had no result with it (G4MDD Mac)

First off, this problem arose for me because I didn't use LW for a year or more. During this time, all the cached peers and web cache URLs became invalid.


Making the new gnutella.net file containing just one valid URL should work, e.g.:

http : //gwc.eod.cc/skulls.php

note you must remove the spaces around the ":" (I had to add those to stop the forum script making a nice underlined link)

If you can't make a simple text file then I hope someone else will help you.

As people have said, deleting the file may work, since then LW will try again with default GWebCache URLs.

having experimented for several hours and knowing an absolute i.e that my router/firewall/java settings were fine before LW stopped connecting, I've finally got it up and running again BUT I'm sure that the above solution only applies in situations where the cache hasn't been updated for quite some time (as Farj3R says) and it is definitely rewritten each time the app is started which means inserting a new cache url may be unnecessary.

I personally found that increasing the locale preferencing setting finally did the trick - still unsure why but was always convinced that a preferences file was corrupted somewhere within the .limewire folder

The same result you will get, if you delete your prefs folder.

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