Here's hoping someone can undo the sabotage caused to my Limewire by the latest Mac updates. I run a g4 powerbook, OS 10.3.9, 1.33GHz. In what now seems a nieve error, I've been regularly accepting all the updates Mac sends out. But the last series has killed my Limewire. After the update, all it would do is bounce in the dock and not load. So I deleted and installed latest version(I think) of LW, 4.12. At least this starts, but in effect, it has still been rendered useless. LW runs incredibly slowly; I can hardly run any applications alongside LW because they will then run slow; and eventually LW will crash after half an hour or so. I thought, as suggested on previous threads, that Quicktime might be the problem, but nope, it would seem I've got version 7.1.2. So, with no great technical expertise, I'm at a loss to what the problem is and how to get LW working again. Your suggestions are my command ...

Have you tried a safe boot & repaired permissions? Also try deleting your LW preferences folder whilst LW is closed (found here): /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

You may also consider this: Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue!

Update prevents me form connecting. can do search but nothing else. Go to try and siable firewall and Gnutella is not in the drop down group available. I can't add as other b/c do not know the information required. Also not sure where this user/user-account... area is. Any help appreciated.

Update prevents me from connecting. can do search but nothing else. Go to try and disable firewall and Gnutella is not in the drop down group available. I can't add as other b/c do not know the information required. Also not sure where this user/user-account... area is. Any help appreciated.

Here's the settings for OSX's firewall: OSX Firewall settings for Tiger. Tiger's firewall settings is only slightly different to Panther's. You will need to add the settings yourself.

Do you see a brick-wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? If yes, then you do have a firewall problem. It may be OSX's firewall or else, it may be your connection device. Most high speed modems & routers have internal NAT firewalls. We'd need to know the brand & model of your device to help here.

Your user account is here: OSX HDD -> Users ->User Account Name

Tried all the suggestions still not go. I have posted all my information about my connection on the main connection page list (69 page one). Worked great until Mac update...I have to assume connected.

Thanks for the tips, Lord. Over the weekend, I deleted the preferences file and purged the downloads queue (very little in there anyway). It made a slight improvement but overall LW still running very poorly, long wait times after clicking on anything, and slowing down performance of any other applications running at the same time. However, I didn't perform your first suggestion: "Have you tried a safe boot & repaired permissions?" as I don't know what this is. If you (or anyone else) can excuse my ignorance, then I'd be greatful for a guide to getting it done. Cheers ...

Probably too late to get into this discussion (a month too late it seems), but here goes anyway...a safe boot is when you restart the computer but hold down the Shift key. This disables a lot of extensions and other things, in effect making the computer as "pure" as it can be; note, however, that due to this disabling, it also means you won't be able to do a lot of things you normally could. Safe booting is usually used as a method to see if the problem is in the computer itself or an extraneous error.

To repair permissions, open up Disk Utility (it's in the Utilities folder, under Applications), choose your hard drive, click the First Aid tab, and then click "Repair Disk Permissions".