I understand what you are saying but any type of file I try to download gives me problems. I have been using limewire for a year now and ever since I upgraded to the latest version I have been having trouble. The files I am downloading are legitimate. Could you please offer further assistance. I tried port fowarding but I still have the same problem.

Hi there, I had the same problem and tried everything everyone suggested. (No joy)
:-(

I turned off "Show Licence Warning" (under Options/Searching/Basic)

Hey presto! Back in the game!

:-)

Go back to the old version then & see if you have the same problems. The fake files syndrome is reasonably recent. Do you use bitzi to check the files are true files?

Literally, I get nothing. Uninstalled and re-installed, everything connected. I click on a file and nothing, I mean NOTHING happens. I've checked firewall, and read through these forums to try to find a solution on my own but nobody has reported "nothing" (no error messages, no pop-ups, etc.) I'm getting thorough searchs, but absoultely no response when I click "download". Please help! Thank you!!
Here's my info:
1. OS version? xp
2. What firewalls you have? mcaffe firewall
3. How much ram? 1g?
4. Hard Disk space available? 44g?
5. Connection type? dsl
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? don't know
7. Where are you trying to connect from (house, appartment complex, school, student accomodation, work, etc.)? house
8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? 4.12.6
9. Who is your ISP provider (Internet Service Provider)? sbc dsl
10. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there? Your test worked
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. No
12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. Working great for months now. This is a new problem for last three days or so.
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? we're all green for connection, no brick wall

Okay, I poked around more in these forums and tried the "revert to default" and "slots is 1 or larger" solutions, then went back and tried to download and ureeka!, it's working. Any idea, though, why my "Library" got cleared out? I found the files within my c/drive, but still curious why the library took a dive? Any ideas?

OK dancski here's the likely deal ... if you had originally had your library time limit of days to keep unfinished files at a time of more than 7 days, when you reverted to default it reset that back to the 7 day limit and the files were purged. That seems to be one of the biggest problems with using the "revert to default" feature. Anything older than 7 days goes bye-bye. In the future you can avoid that by first moving your unfinished files to another location unrelated to limewire and then and only then use the "revert to default" option in the tools.

I tried to download previous versions of limewire but my limewire still will not download. Do you think it has anything with the port fowarding I attempted?

Possibly. Actually I didn't realise you port forwarded. The most important step is the 1st step & that's often where people make mistakes; ie: setting up a static ip. Without a static ip set up "before" the port forwarding, then the entire process was a waste of time. I've heard it's also better to do a separate port forward for each of TCP & UDP, as compared to doing one for both in a single port forward. Two options to get passed the linksys nat firewall is to either enable UPnP or port forward. (port forwarding instructions here http://portforward.com/routers.htm ) Else see the connection problems link above under UPnP section about how to enable UPnP. I don't know how good your model is re: UPnP

But before you do this, try this ... make a note of any important settings in your options & then delete your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire (sample image included at bottom of page.) Next time you open LW you will need to reset all your option settings such as days to keep incomplete files to a large number. Also under advanced>firewall settings set it to manual port forward or UPnP whichever you set your linksys for.

See how the connection goes, & then try downlding a magnet link from here http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml & tell us what happens.

hi guys, i have a slight problem, i am trying to download a video but each and every video is either fake or irrelevant, any suggestions?

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