I tried the procedure described in the posting "I found an answer for me!" above. Worked beautifully. LimeWire now holds its prefs and I can customize the way I want.

The URL to the "Tinker Tool" mentioned is http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...inkertool.html

I'm using 2.7.3 Pro with OS 10.2.1

Hi, I posted the "i found an answer for me" post, I got registered today, I'm glad to see that someone found the post helpful and found tinker tool on apples site. I saw a post by one chap that said he trashed a preferance file and it still didn't work, it's not a preference file your looking to delete, its a directory (folder in mac terms) that has the same name as the preference file that limewire needs to create, and because that directory is there it can't make the pref file. the exact name of the folder is, limewire.props its the folder you need to delete BUT its located in a hidden folder so you need tinker tool or the terminal to get to it, the limwire.props folder lives at this location ~~~> /users/(your home dir)/library/preferences/.limewire/limewire.props
after I deleted it I have had smooth sailing, but once again try this work around at your own risk. Another thing I'm not using jag but the other mate that posted that it worked for him was (using 10.2) so all I can say is you might not have delete the right thing, hope this helps

also someone asked for system vitals

ibook 600mhz 256mb ram
os x 10.1.5 (i got the ibook with 10.1 and gone through all updates to 10.1.5)
limewire 2.7.3 (free version)
any other system vitals just let me know, I do use a few system hacks (clear dock, diffrent startup panels, nothing that would affect limewire though)

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greetings

running imac dv+ 450 mhz...jaguar...9.22...640mb

finally had some time to try the tinkertool fix and it worked for me...restarted and everything...it remembered prefs. and it fixed the error message that has been previously posted....

seems like a minor fix on the developers end, but then i know nothing of developing! keep up the good work guys!!!

The problem was solved by using Tinkertool, just select show hidden files, delete the limewire.props folder. Put it in the trash. reboot the finder. Start Limewire go through the wizard and you won't get the wizard again. What happens is that when you run it again it puts a file named limewire.props. Before there was just an empty folder. This is a mistake on Limewire's part. I'm using the Pro version $9.95 I thought it was an attempt to get us users to buy the Pro version. I sent in a bug report since I'm registered for the Pro Version. Wonder how the "Pro support is"

We're working on a solution for an upcoming 2.7.5 beta. Thanks for all of the helpful information and comments!

We've now released 2.7.5 in beta. We have not found a solution to the problem, but 2.7.5 adds more debugging output that will give us much more information in assessing what the problem is. If anyone has a chance to just run it once, that would be a big help.

Thanks!

I don't have the exact same problem. But every time I install a new version of LimeWire (which is quite often due to regular updates) I have to redo all my preferences. Why can't LimeWire keep the old settings of previous versions?

We just released 2.7.6 with a fix for at least 1 major but regarding preferences. Basically, we put in a workaround to get around a bug in the 10.1, but the workaround broke things when the bug was fixed in 10.2.

Hi again everyone, I was reading all the postings and one thing comes to mind for the developers end, and thats take the limewire.props dir out of the program install. you said mr. fisk that the work around that you guys developed worked in 10.1 but not 10.2. Ok I have 10.1 and others that have tried the work around I found have 10.2, sooo why not just take the directory out of the install. What does it do for the program? I haven't experienced any problems or anything, so what is its job, and why can't it be removedd from the offical distro? I'm just rather curious as I've only done work on much smaller and less complex programs. happy hunting

Thanks for the input. I was a little unclear in my last post. What I meant was, a long time ago (say, LW 2.4.4), we put in code that worked around a bug in 10.1. It turns out that our workaround, however, created a problem in 10.2 where sometimes your settings would be saved, and sometimes they wouldn't. 2.7.6 fixes that problem.

That said, I'm VERY curious about this "limewire.props directory." There should not be any directory called limewire.props, only a file called limewire.props. Where are you seeing this directory (I've heard rumors of this happening, but if you could tell me all the details, that would be great).

Thanks very much.