Howdy,

All right! It worked now. Many thanks to KMAG.
Now Ijust need a manuak to figure out how it works.

Thanks again.

Ken --
I found it easier to go with the GUI method rather than the command line route. One little typo & you'd get the "no such file/directory" error.
Summarizing/restating kmag's solution:

From the "Macintosh HD" icon on the desktop, navigate down into System -> Library -> Frameworks -> JavaVM.framework -> Versions -> Current -> Resources -> MacOS. Whew!!
Then COPY the "JavaApplicationStub" file.
Next go to Macintosh HD -> Applications -> LimeWire, and <Ctrl>-click on the LimeWire icon. Select "Show Package Contents" from the menu that pops up. In the window that pops up, go into the Contents folder, then into the MacOS folder.
Now PASTE the "JavaApplicationStub" file in here.
Finally, RENAME the file "LimeWire" to something else (e.g. "OldLimeWire"), and RENAME "JavaApplicationStub" to "LimeWire".

Hope this didn't confuse things more. Thanks again to kmag!

Hi jxb,

That looks like a lot of work, but thanks anyway.

As it turned out (I'm ashamed to admit), I had uninstalled LimeWire without realizing it (duh! ;-/). I reinstalled it, then I recopied and pasted kmag's command line back into the Treminal and it fired up fine after that.

Now I just need to figure out how to use it....

Tried what you said twice , no help . Icon bounces in dock and disappears.........Mac OSX.3.9 on G3 imac

Suggestions?

Also note that LW 4.9.25 beta ships with the JavaApplicationStub from OS X 10.2 instead of OS X 10.1. If you don't want to manually replace the stub used by LW, you can try downloading LW 4.9.25 (or later).

On my OS X 10.3.9 machine, I was unable to reproduce the bug with the new LW beta. I was able to trigger the bug with older versions of LW.

I Just installed 10.4.2 and now LimeWire wont boot either. I get the two bounces and then nothing. I moved that java file that was mentioned earlier, that didn't help. I tried to remove and reinstall still nothing, whats going on?

help with directions
 

From directions below i did all up until it asked me to rename files... how do i do so? I clicked on name a cursor never came up for me to try to rename????

From the "Macintosh HD" icon on the desktop, navigate down into System -> Library -> Frameworks -> JavaVM.framework -> Versions -> Current -> Resources -> MacOS. Whew!!
Then COPY the "JavaApplicationStub" file.
Next go to Macintosh HD -> Applications -> LimeWire, and <Ctrl>-click on the LimeWire icon. Select "Show Package Contents" from the menu that pops up. In the window that pops up, go into the Contents folder, then into the MacOS folder.
Now PASTE the "JavaApplicationStub" file in here.
Finally, RENAME the file "LimeWire" to something else (e.g. "OldLimeWire"), and RENAME "JavaApplicationStub" to "LimeWire".

Once i get to the paste JavaApplicationStub i dont have the option to paste?
what am i doing wrong? I control copy and it works but i cant paste

Problem
 

hey man im having the same problem. when i enter your script into terminal it gives me this.

cp: /Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/LimeWire: Permission denied

I gots ur fix
 

put sudo in front of cp.
than when prompted type your admin password.
It'll work like a charm.