when i trie to download limewire it opens with excel how do i fix that or install it. all i see is 40,000 colums of ramdom stuff

i have this same problem...i am so confused it opens in excel and has a whole bunch of random stuff i have a mac osx im so confused im using internet exploer and i cant dl firefox or anything without the samething happening

Take the advice & use Safari instead. Safari comes with OSX! You'll find it in your Applications folder.

For the information of all, the same thing happens with Mozilla Firefox.

The oly browser I could get work was Safari

Good luck.

I'm having the same problem-- I've just upgraded to OS X (10.1.2)-- I have been using Limewire happily for a year or so but just tried to download the newer version for OS X-- after a few aborted tries (where it only partially downloaded a couple of times, but since I'm on dial-up even that took ages) I downloaded the whole thing, but when I double-click I get an error message saying it "cannot be mounted." This is the second time I tried to download it-- the first time it seemed to think it was a Quicktime file. Doesn't anybody have it archived as just a StuffIt file? Thanks for any advice.

You might find there is a bit of a problem with the early OSX systems. more can be found if you lok through the other posts.

...... but the file you have downloaded should say LimeWireOSX.dmg, If it says anything else my first hought would be you are not downloading it with Safari, but you will have seen that in the thread above. dmg files should open with disk image mounter at least on my OSX they do .. I really cannot remember OSX 10.1.2 very well, or if I ever used it! any way his might help a little!

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You just updated to 10.1.2 from what? I think the last update for 10.1 is 10.1.5 which you should update to! I'm also aware the very 1st Safari version had some bugs in it. But Safari is the recommended browser to use for downlding LW for OSX. It means you have downlded an incomplete dmg & OSX doesn't recognise what it is. eg: say the downld size should be 5.5 MB, yours is probably a little smaller at 5.3 MB or something (I've just taken those figures outta my head as an example!) This issue also happened to me.

Yes, the file does say Limewire OSX.dmg, and yes, I downloaded it from the actual Limewire site. I just upgraded from v. 9.2. I don't seem to have Safari on my computer (which came loaded with 9.2 and X-- I've been running 9.2 until now though), so I can't use it to download or open anything. This seems to be the case with all .DMG files, not just Limewire-- Disk Mounter doesn't recognize them or says it can't mount them. This is making me kind of crazy-- all the utilities and apps I have are for older Macs, but now I can't upgrade them since I can't open the new versions! Argh.

command (apply key) & F & type in Safari & you should find it. If not, then you only did a partial install of OSX. You can downld Safari from here http://www.apple.com/lae/safari/ & upgrade here http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/

just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their help
by using safari, limewire basic mounted corretcly as oppose to an excel file when using IE.

thank you again!!!