A window pops up and says there's been an internal error, but that it can survive it, and to select all the text and email it to limewire for debugging purposes.
Only problem, how do you select and copy the text? There's no edit on the menu bar, the darn thing scrolls forever inside a tiny little box, and although you can highlight what is visible, what's visible is about 3 lines out of maybe 300.

No wonder we have bugs, we can't report the dang things and of course there are no instructions on how to do any of this stuff.

Hopefully, I am overlooking something, so if anyone can help, mucho appreciado.

There should be a copy button in that window, which you can use. Otherwise click in the text box and press control-A (select all) and then control-C (copy). You might need to replace the control key with the command key to get it to work.

I tried the copy button, but nothing happened. I'll try the keyboard command. Thanks!

A suggestion to the powers: add a method to bring forward a window that will open a new email message addressed and with the information the developers need in it.

Shareware programs like Popup Zapper do that, so I know it can't be a big deal to do.

Your keyboard method worked, thankfully.

Minutes after sending the email, I received an automated response that I want to share with you all, because I think it is telling :
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"This is an automated bugs@limewire.com email response.

Your submission to bugs@limewire.com indicated that you are using a buggy version of LimeWire that requires change. Please visit the LimeWire download page and switch to the current version. This may involve a rollback to version 2.7.13.
http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/download

Thanks,

The LimeWire Team"
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This makes me wonder, did their computer read my bug report, analyze it, and send out the appropriate answer, since it's an automated response, or is it programmed to send out a warning when it sees the numbers 2, 8, and 5?


Well, unfortunately, the Pro link still points to version 2.8.5, not 2.7.13, and the free version currently is 2.8.4.

So, I am now forced to shut off file sharing until they make some needed repairs to their software and their company operations.

LimeWire version 4.8.1

Java version 1.4.1_02 from Sun Microsystems Inc.

Windows XP v. 5.1 on x86

Free/total memory: 3208312/4128768



com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader$StartupFailed Exception: invalid xml.war

at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.sanityCheck(G UILoader.java:283)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUILoader.load(GUILoade r.java:43)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknow n Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Un known Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:31)



STARTUP ERROR!



-- listing properties --

FILTER_HASH_QUERIES=true

APP_HEIGHT=560

DIRECTORIES_TO_SEARCH_FOR_FILES=C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Shared

LAST_EXPIRE_TIME=1115315023031

DIRECTORY_FOR_SAVING_FILES=C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Shared

RUN_ONCE=true

COUNTRY=

CLIENT_ID=63D468D85218713AFF0E8E10DBAC3400

EVER_ACCEPTED_INCOMING=true

MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=32

TOTAL_UPTIME=656345

AVERAGE_UPTIME=656345

UNSET_FIREWALLED_FROM_CONNECTBACK=true

APP_WIDTH=798

INSTALLED=true

MAX_SIM_DOWNLOAD=3

LAST_GWEBCACHE_FETCH_TIME=1115929671109

WINDOW_Y=-2

MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=191

WINDOW_X=2







FILES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY:

C:\Program Files\LimeWire\.NetworkShare

LAST MODIFIED: 1115935412312

SIZE: 0



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\clink.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200036125

SIZE: 627752



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-httpclient.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200036468

SIZE: 463786



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\commons-logging.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200036593

SIZE: 59154



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\COPYING

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397778140

SIZE: 18349



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\daap.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200036796

SIZE: 310773



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\GenericWindowsUtils.dll

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397777750

SIZE: 12279



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\i18n.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200037109

SIZE: 25678



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\icu4j.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200037281

SIZE: 741440



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\id3v2.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200037406

SIZE: 94430



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\install.log

LAST MODIFIED: 1115932403500

SIZE: 0



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jcraft.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200037500

SIZE: 135834



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jl011.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200037703

SIZE: 255016



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\jmdns.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200037734

SIZE: 69306



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire 4.0.6

LAST MODIFIED: 1115842519468

SIZE: 0



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire On Startup.lnk

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200041156

SIZE: 1547



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397778015

SIZE: 81920



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.ico

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397778031

SIZE: 13806



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200034984

SIZE: 5262588



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire20.dll

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397777828

SIZE: 32768



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\logicrypto.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200038203

SIZE: 227510



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\looks.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200038375

SIZE: 630634



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\MessagesBundle.properties

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397769171

SIZE: 99605



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\MessagesBundles.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200035750

SIZE: 2057292



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\mp3sp14.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200038671

SIZE: 40064



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\pmf.ico

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397778062

SIZE: 3262



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\ProgressTabs.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200035843

SIZE: 5964



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\root

LAST MODIFIED: 1115935412250

SIZE: 0



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\themes.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200038765

SIZE: 193884



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\tritonus.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200038859

SIZE: 152711



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\uninstall.exe

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200041187

SIZE: 109826



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\update.ver

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397777140

SIZE: 2766



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\vorbis.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200039000

SIZE: 27215



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\WindowsV5PlusUtils.dll

LAST MODIFIED: 1110397777890

SIZE: 12808



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\xerces.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200039296

SIZE: 2147687



C:\Program Files\LimeWire\xml-apis.jar

LAST MODIFIED: 1114200039421

SIZE: 207655