Hello...i just wanted to let everyone know about the problems i've been having with limewire on my mac. I have the newest version of mac os, which is os 9.2. IT DOESN'T WORK WITH LIMEWIRE at the moment. I've tried re-installing it about 10 times now, it gives me the same message every time:

"While trying to start the next step of the installer, an error occured, "Could not find "InstallAnywhere Installer" Please contact your software vendor."

And then when I tried to install version 1.7 beta, it did the same thing as version 1.6d. And when i try to run version 1.6, it gives me this message:

LimeWire version 1.6
Java version 1.1.8 from Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac OS v. 9.2.1 on PowerPC
Free/total memory: 134334/2506752

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.File.<init>(File.java)
at a.a.a.ca.t(ca.java:641)
at a.a.a.c.b.n.i(n.java:418)
at a.a.a.c.b.n.<init>(n.java:77)
at a.a.a.c.b.bf.a(bf.java:57)
at a.a.a.c.b.bf.<init>(bf.java:41)
at a.a.a.c.MainFrame.initialize(MainFrame.java:135)
at a.a.a.c.Initializer.b(Initializer.java:110)
at a.a.a.c.Main.main(Main.java:16)
at a.a.a.b.Main.main(Main.java:13)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch([DashoPro-V1.2-120198])
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main([DashoPro-V1.2-120198])
at com.apple.mrj.JManager.JMStaticMethodDispatcher.ru n(JMAWTContextImpl.java)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)


I can't figure out what the hecks going on, and i can't find any info about what to do...can someone help??? I would appreciate ANY answers, as i use limewire all the time, or should i say, i use to!

I've also been having problems with Lime Wire since updating to 9.2 BUT it does sometimes work! Tuesday everything worked fine, yesterday It hung the Mac, Today it refuses to load past the LW startup screen - Like you I hope this gets sorted soon as I need my fix of free stuff!!

Regards All

since installing 9.2
no limewire, crashes at startup.

please fix this.

I do not run osx just os9.2

g4 dp 450

Yup! mine also crashes on startup...I get the browser up and the buttons are cut off on the edges and everything is frozen except the cursor...I am able to force quit, but that's it!

Same trouble here. I have OS 9.21 and OS X. LimeWire in 9.21 doesn't get past the start up screen, then when I force quit my computer usually locks up. What's going on? LimeWire on OSX seems to work OK, but I'd rather use OS9.

I got LimeWire to finally work!

I was having serious problems running LimeWire 1.7 (on a PowerMac G4, OS 9.2.1) with it crashing my computer. If I clicked my mouse outside the Limewire window, it would crash. If I didn't click, it would run fine (most of the time) for 5 minutes or so, and then decide to suddenly crash.

I didn't think it was an extensions conflict, but it was. When I disabled the "Contextual Menu Extension" (using Extensions Manager, if anyone out there is a newbie) and restarted the computer, LimeWire worked wonderful - real fast and very stable.

Hopefully there will be a fix, but I'd much rather have LimeWire than the ability to use the Contextual Menu feature (which I found to be very slow, anyways).

I finally managed to install 17 by turning off just about anything and definitely contextual menus. Then, it ran fine. That is, until I restarted my computer. Now it seems I have to reinstall the application every time I reboot?!

It might differ from setup to setup. I'm no expert, but I'd suggest:

1) Make sure you uninstall the old version of LimeWire.

2) Don't go crazy with disabling a lot of extensions - I would think (hope) that only the Contextual Menu extension is needed to be disabled. (On my Mac, I also disabled a 3rd party extension called "IdleTime," which came (I think) with my DSL install kit (I disabled it after reading how certain internet "spyware" can mess-up LimeWire and make it do weird things - however, I did this before finding out about the CM extension conflict, and it still didn't run right until I disabled the CM extension).

3) Restart the computer

4) Install LimeWire 1.7 - and after it is installed, double its memory allocation. (I have mine set for 12750 K, but I don't think I needed that much).

Other than that, I don't know what to suggest. You didn't mention what happened when you restarted your computer - what it was that made it seem like you had to reinstall it every time you reboot.

I hope this works, 'cause I wanna download all your files...

Disable Contextual Menu Extension fixed it for me!

TiPB G4 500mhz 512RAM OS 9.2.1

Limewire 1.7 would run and download but ONE CLICK anywhere other than Limewire would crash the app. Disabled Contextual Menu Extension and everything works just fine.

Concur on the previous good housekeeping hints also ... uninstall old Limewire, lastest version of Java engine etc.