iMac DV 450 hz, 320 ram, OSX1.5, iTunes 3, Lime 2.8.5, DSL

Same here, Lib takes forever to load 1400 files every time I start up... easily 15-20 minutes

Now something I have in common with Desprez(?), we both are using iTunes music folders to share with, mine is located in HOME/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/(many folders listed by artist names)

^ I was sharing an iTunes folder too. I changed the default location to a partition on my 2nd hard drive, the one that died about 2 weeks ago.

Actualy, I'm not using the default iTunes location, but the way I have it set up, Limewire and is are sharing the same folder the iTunes uses.

And this, I think, may be part of the problem.

See, iTunes automaticaly categorizes everything by Artist, Album, Name - and re-arranges the folder structure. I wonder if Limewire checks to see if the directory structure has changed, and if it has, then does the sharing process all over again.

My memory of the order of events is fuzzy, but it's possible that Limewire started having trouble when I started using iTunes auto-organization feature.

Does anyone think this might be the case? Or possibly ANY tinkering with the shared folders structure prompts a re******yzing of the shared files?

I don't think it's the answer. I tought it was and I have changed the shared folder for a single one with only two files in it. It is still as slow as it was.

Sorry.

I have about 2000 mp3 files (12G) shared and limewire 2.8.5 pro (OS X 10.1.5) can take up to an hour to make them all available in the library. Part of it is due to changing files' ID tags via itunes.. I'm in the process of annotating and cleaning up existing tags as much as possible so it's easier to find things.. every time I make changes on a subset of files (say 40-50 out of 2000) limewire seems to be forced to reprocess the whole bunch, which is _painfully_ slow. It's a CPU & Memory hog too.. currently running at 30-40% CPU and 20% memory (of 256MB). I'm dying to try something else but options seem limited unless I get OS X 10.2... ..... .....

There is a developer preview of java 1.4 available for MacOSX. If you want to boost LimeWire's performance, you should get it.

I think I've got the answer: I went to tools/then options and noticed I had about 4 directories for shared files. I deleted 3 of them and bingo...all is well. (I have an iMac OS 9.2.2)