I probably could do it with a little instruction, but as you said, it IS my work machine, and the risk may be too high.

Which puts me right back where I started--no Limewire for my Mac.

Is this the end? <g>

Is it the end? No! I am sure that you want a lovely eMac for your personnal use at your home.... There you'll be able to run LW and do what you want without having a risk to make your boss angry

C'est la vie!

I'm a freelance designer...I *am* the boss....makes it very hard to sneak around my OWN back.

I'm not thrilled with the ending to this long saga. I don't see a new machine in my future for a long, long, time, due to financial troubles.

In the meantime, I really miss the music. :-(

If any other ideas pop into your head, or anyone elses, PLEASE let me know.

Thanks much.

Jottagirl,

I'm not sure if this qualifies as another "idea" but although I have a Mac much older than yours, I too am using OS 9.1 and I'm stuck with it until I get a new Mac...(not to be soon). I'm also not an expert but I occassionally do tackle the clean install method to clean up accumulated bugs in the OS...Do you have Conflict Catcher 8 with the downloadable upgrades (8.0.6 and 8.0.8)? Nice thing about CC they send you a BOOK. The manual includes a very(?) easy to understand step-by-step process for the "clean install" operation.; far better for me to have a book than trying to access any onscreen help when I'm doing this stuff.
I've been using LimeWire since 1.6 and although the "improvements" are slowly leaving me in the dust (taxing this old Performa and the dreaded MJR, my most up-to-date version LW 3.6.10 did install and works fairly well. By the way I NEVER remove a previous version of LW that is working until I have had a chance to use the newer version...I still have LW 1.7, 2.7.13 Pro, 3.4.7 Pro and 3.6.10 Pro installed and use each of them every once and a while (I find that LW 2.7.13 gives be the least number of "crashes" per session. As the old LW 1.7 installed the best MJR I can use, I ALWAYS use the LW version Mac download which does not include another copy of MJR.

Good Luck

Interesting!
3 more ideas: Replace CarbonLib ; check that large System font is Chicago in Appearance, and increase the MINIMUM memory allocation by 300K

Good ideas!

I totally go with the CarbonLib bit especially.

Hi Guys:

I'm a peer-to-peer newbie, but an old hand at Mac's. I doubt that CarbonLib would be the culprit, would it? Limewire is supposed to be developed in Java (TM) -- that means it 's platform independent, and should -- theoretically -- run on ANY Java platform.

Have you installed the SDK? Or not.


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good to have an old mac expert around. Most of us are on 10.2 and up, and our experience with 9 is getting dated quickly. As this thread shows, we are really trying to come up with anything that jottagirl could do without a clean OS install.

No expert here, steif. Just someone who got hooked on Macintosh, with my trusty +. I haven't gotten up to anything beyond the Classic OS yet, and am stuck on this BZ thing. As to Jottagirl's problem (with her work machine), the first problem is why would she want a JAva daemon (presumably) inside her firewall on LocalTalk?

IMHO, she needs a DEDICATED audiophile machine. A G4 cube might be one suggestion.


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Oops, that should be ZG NOT BZ.


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