I have just stared having this problem with Limewire v3.6.15. I am running a G4 Cube with os10.2.8.

The problem is I cannot open the shared folder at all. I have duplicated the folder and still cannot open it. I can open the files in the folder by starting an app and opening them through the app but cannot open the folder. When I try to open the folder I get the beach ball and then the window disappears along with all the icons on my desktop. The icons come back after a half-second but the folder window does not. There is no dialogue box or warning. I have tried opening the folder the key comination rather than the mouse, I have tried to open it throught the find window but no luck.

Before I start copying files and moving them through the Terminal I would like to know if there are others who have had the same problem.

thanks,

belroyce

First I've read of this one: sounds like a Finder problem, no? If the usual Safe Boot/Repair Permissions doesn't help, maybe creating a new Admin User in System Preferences->Accounts can help get you more info if the problem is a corrupted user pref somewhere. Besides the Apple support forums, http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html is pretty handy for troubleshooting 10.2 problems.

cheers--and good luck. I'd be curious what you find out.

Well, I went the the website you indicated and added a new admin user but I still could not get to the folder. But I still followed his direction and booted up in OS 9. While in OS 9 I was able to access the shared folder, move the files out of the shared folder and into a folder on my OS X desktop.

After booting up in OS X and after all the files were out of the shared folder I was able to access the shared folder and the new folder I created for the files I pulled out of old shared folders. Strange, I know.

And I did run the disk utility a number of times.



Belroyce