LimeWire Bounces In Dock and Disappears? Look Here!

Lord of the Rings · #**101** (**permalink**) September 9th, 2006

That's odd. Does your receipts folder look like this? Is there anything missing from this list?:

LimeWire Bounces In Dock and Disappears? Look Here!-java-1.5-receipts.gif

What type of mac are you using? Is it an intel mac?
Did you repair permissions after installing Java? Did you remove anything from the receipts folder & if yes, which file(s)?

myberger71 · #**102** (**permalink**) February 10th, 2007

i had basic LW with no problems for at least a year. last night LW icon bouced w/o opening. tried SBerlin's suggestion to change <string>prelude</string> which doesn't exist. gave up and paid the $19 for Pro. Tried opening thru Applications (Limewire and Limewire Log In icons)--not happening. help i miss LW.

mhajiyer · #**103** (**permalink**) March 13th, 2007

I also had basic LW for one year with no problems. After having to reinstall and archive following an update, I can no longer open LW. It bounces in the dock and then disappears. I have a year old ibook G4 running on Tiger OSX. What should I do to correct this?

borisbecker · #**104** (**permalink**) April 21st, 2007

Hi,
I'm on tiger, I put the install cd, followed the instructions, double click on BSD.PKG and a window warns me that "the destination folder "package" is on a locked volume. Please select another destination". What can I do?
Thanks for help.

Lord of the Rings · #**105** (**permalink**) April 21st, 2007

Did you start up using the install disk? If not, reboot whilst holding down C key, else, go to the system preferences, startup volume & change to install disk. If you did do this, then try installing after starting up normally, not from the install disk. Make sure you have administration permissions to install. Log in under an admin account.

RoboM · #**106** (**permalink**) July 12th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by sberlin

[EDIT] 3.6.15 is live and will automatically take care of these situations for you. [END EDIT]

This will happen if you first installed 10.0, then upgraded to 10.2 without installing some specific packages. We are in the process of revising our installer to fix this (and some other) issues. In the meantime, you can continue running LimeWire one of two ways.

The best way, if you still have the OS X installation CDs is to pop the first CD in and navigate to:
Mac OS X Install Disc 1 -> System -> Installation -> Packages -> BSD.pkg
and double-click to install that package.

Alternatively, you can go to /Applications/LimeWire, ctrl-click on the LimeWire application, choose 'Show Package Contents', open on the 'Contents' folders, ctrl-click on the 'Info.plist' file, choose 'Open With', choose 'Other', scroll down on the right and choose 'TextEdit". Within TextEdit, find the line that reads "<string>prelude</string>" and change it to "<string>LimeWire</string>". Save the file, close TextEdit.

After you've done either procedure, LimeWire should open as normal. We'll be releasing a new installer soon so that all this isn't necessary if the user didn't have BSD installed, but for the existing installations these steps are required.

Thanks,
Sam

Launcher Version 0.1. The 'Info.plist' file originaly read "<string>LimeWire.icon</string>" & suffered from bouncing icon syndrome. Revised it to read "<string>LimeWire</string>" but still N.G. Suggestions?

iMac Duo: System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R2232), Kernel Version: Darwin 8.10.1

Lord of the Rings · #**107** (**permalink**) July 12th, 2007

1. Repair permissions after a SAFE Reboot, then reboot normally & try again.
2. If still problems, reinstall the "Offline" Standalone Java 1.5 from apple site. ie: Do not use the apple updater online installation.

This issue is generally Java related.

RoboM · #**108** (**permalink**) July 13th, 2007

Thanks for your quick response.

Performed Safe Reboot, then repaired permissions using 'Mac OS X Install Disk 1'. could not find a Java download labled 'Standalone Java 1.5' or any 'Standalone'. Found 'J2SE 5.0 Release 4 (Intel)' at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...ase4intel.html

Downloaded J2SE50Release3.pkg from that URL. But is has a generic icon. Get Info shows 'Open with Installer.app' as expected. Double clicked it but it pops up only momentarily in the dock. LW installer still does the same. Search finds ALL the pkg items on the HD now also show the generic icon. Can't say when that happened. May be unrelated.

I fear that there is another Java labled Standa**** that I did not find.
What now?

Lord of the Rings · #**109** (**permalink**) July 14th, 2007

That is the Standalone version or Offline installer version. It just means you install from your computer & not over the internet. It tends to be a lot safer, especially for Java.

You could see if this version works: LimeWire cvs builds (4.13.4jum489) but note, that CVS version has not been updated in over a month.

Although I think with later osx 10.4 updates it makes java 1.5 the default for all programs, perhaps see this just in case: Setting up Java 1.5

RoboM · #**110** (**permalink**) July 14th, 2007

Thank you Lord of the Rings.
Hooray! 4.13.4jum489 loads OK.

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