HI,

I'M HAVING A HELLUVA TIME TRYING TO WORK OUT WHAT I'M DOING WRONG. I HAVE A G3 RUNNING OS X AND AFTER DOWNLOADING LIMEWIRE ( I PAID !) WHENEVER I DID A SEARCH IT WOULD HANG MY ENTIRE SYSTEM AND I'D HAVE TO FORCE QUIT. I HAVE 500 mb of RAM and a 10 gig drive so it's not a space problem ! I DO HOWEVER ONLY CONNECT AT 28,800 BPS ON A MODEM AT HOME. IT ALSO SAYS I'M SHARING OVER 20,OOO FILES WHEN I CONNECT.

I THEN TRIED TO LOAD IT AT WORK ON MY IMAC TO SEE IF I GOT THE SAME PROBLEM AS MY IMAC IS ON BROADBAND AND I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO DO WITH MY CONNECTION SPEED. WITH THIS ONE, IT SAYS I'M SHARING 129 FILES - AND IT DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL.

I AM READY TO THROW AN AXE AT EITHER OF THESE COMPUTERS - CAN ANYONE OUT THERE HELP WITH EITHER PROBLEM ????

THANKS

MARY

Hi

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of P2P. You have joined the party at a difficult time. Unfortunately, too many people have been signing up for the system to handle as originally conceived. We are therefore going through "growing pains" while decisions are made as to how to absorb the additional membership equitably.

That said, the fact that your machines are indicating the number of files available indicates that you are running in ultrapeer mode (this was made the default setting in LW Preferences). This converts your machine into a messaging node for potentially quite large volumes of data traffic across the whole network. I tried leaving LW on in the background while I ran other applications and I ground to a halt and suffered system crashes. So, as a first step, deselect ultrapeer as an option in your Preferences file. Life is better as a leaf mode right now.

However, do not expect that this will suddenly produce cascades of successful downloads. Things may improve when 3.0 is released but you will find that downloading needs time and effort.

(Off topic — are you connected to the publishing Eidolon or are you an HPL fan?)

There's a bug in LW that conflicts with OSX. Just check "disable ultrapeer" in your preferences (Speed), as david said, and:

You should also set up your firewall to allow gnutella (OSX->System Preferences->Internet and Network->Sharing->Firewall->New->Port Name->Gnutella/Limewire (6346).

Then you can have fun figuring out the many other problems that are likely to crop up, and David pointed out.

Cheers.

20,000 files? Ooops. Check the preferences that you are only sharing the folders you want. You can add and remove shared foldersin the prefs. The first time you start Limewire, it creates a "hash" (coded list) of the files you want to share. This can take a long time to make the list the first time, and can be very processor intensive. I recall 10 minutes for a even a couple of hundred files/ 5 GB.

For the record, I've been running with my Firewall switched off altogether (blind faith in my own invincibility goes with the turf). Stief, as always, is more prudent.

And I may also have misunderstood your post. Stief correctly distinguishes between the number of files shown as Shared in the bottom left-hand corner of the display and the number of files shown in the central header. I had assumed the latter for Ultrapeer purposes whereas the former could be really excessive because you could just have offered all the files on your machine for sharing.

So, good catch Stief.