Ok I've had Limewire Basic for about 4 months and when the new version (4.8.1) came out I downloaded it. It has been working fine until I tried to run it again today (I haven't run it for 9 days). I open Limewire and it starts to go through the normal startup procedure until it gets to "Loading User Interface," whereupon it freezes. I've tried waiting for about 15 minutes (and it had made no progress), and also reinstalling Limewire about 3 times. I'm on a Mac G4 and I'd really appreciate a fast response (I'm going on a trip to Pennsylvania the day after tomorrow and I NEED my music)!!

Try deleting your LW preferences whilst LW is closed & found here: /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

Also try this: Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue! It will make LW start up faster. You could try it whilst LW is closed by going to the incomplete folder & arranging it by size & then deleting those at 0 KB.

Alright thanks I'll try this tomorrow and get back to you. Time to get some sleep!!

Ok I tried deleting my preferences and LW itself, but when I tried to reinstall it and run it again it got all the way to loading status window and then froze. I've been waiting about 1 minute and nothing new has happened. BTW theres nothing in my incomplete folder.

There's nothing in your incomplete folder b/c you've chosen a different location to save your files. Search your computer for the older location you saved your files & your older incomplete folder are. They will both be at the same directory level. eg: /Users/your_username ... if that was where your older save folder was then that's where your older incomplete folder will be. So reset the save location to where it was before.

I don't know which version of Mac OSX you have but might I suggest you reinstall Java using the standalone Java installer. See Fixes for LW (click on link) You haven't given us any clue as to which OSX version you're using.

O yea sorry I'm on OS X (10.3.9).

I'll try to find the old save folder now (along with the incomplete one).

O crap I just remembered this:

When I first got LW it was an older version that I had to use Classic to run (Mac OS 9). So after I got that earlier version it I set my download destination to a different file. So when the new update (4.8.1) came out and I downloaded it, I replaced the old LW with the new one. The preferences were already set on the new version (possibly because I hadn't deleted the preferences folder in my library that you told me about earlier), so I didn't have to change anything. As it turns out the old DL destination file was in the folder for the earlier version of LW (and I seem to remember my incomplete folder being there as well) and this folder I deleted. Because the preferences were already set for the new version (which as I said has been working fine for months) IDK where the old DL destination would be other than in the old versions folder!!

1 other thing: I have 512 Megs of total RAM so I doubt that's a problem. Unless I don't have enough RAM allotted to LW in which case I would need to know how to transfer more (I used to know on my old machine but never looked into it on my new 1).

On mac osx it's not an issue so much. afaik osx allocates as much ram as required at the time. But also remember that all osx programs use virtual memory so you need to have lots of sufficient HDD space. There's ways of reducing ram usage but not until you get LW to open.

Also see this:http://www.limewire.com/english/content/support.shtml re: osx issues

So how much ram & spare HDD space do you have?