Saving to Folder on external drive problem

stuckhere · #1 (**permalink**) June 3rd, 2008

I have version 4.16.7. In the past, I have set things up where my downloads get saved to my external hard drive (G\ ). But since i got this version, Limewire won't load. It tells me that it's an invalid drive, may be corrupt, or i may not have permissions to save to that location. ANd it forces me to choose another destination, which it only accepts the default. (yes, i am the administrator. and NO, my G drive is not corrupted...) So it's forcing me to save my files to my hard drive (C\) and won't load otherwise.
THEN, when it finally loads, I have to go to TOOLS, OPTIONS and try changing the Save Folder to G:\. I change my settings, and it takes several minutes to accept my changes. Now, once i have everythign the way i want it, i have no problems whatsoever downloading, and i'm very happy with limewire. But when i close the program down at the end of the day, and restart at some point, I go thru this all over again.
I dont remember what version of limewire i had prior to this, but i NEVER had this problem.
What's going on? and how can I stop this from happening EVERY TIME!?!
THank you.
PS, I have VIsta, but that wasn't a problem in the past either.

Lord of the Rings · #2 (**permalink**) June 3rd, 2008

External drives can be a bit of an issue. I haven't experienced this on windows but did have this problem on OSX. LW can be slow to both recognise & read from external drives. The drive must be connected & preferably been active moments before you turn LW on.
I never found a simple solution to this problem. LW is the only p2p program I had this problem with.

Re: possible permissions error; I am aware there is an issue with the new LW version & I think this is more-so applicable to VISTA. You may need to check around the VISTA section to see if you can find threads discussing this issue. Or use the forum search function. I do recall a thread discussing a permissions error where the permissions of the download (&) shared folder(s) was different to others on the computer. So check the permissions of the download folder on your C drive & that of the folder on your external drive & see if there's any difference.