I am using a Mac OSX version 10.4.11 and I downloaded limewire from the website. When I try to open it, it says "Your save folder is not valid. It may have been deleted, you may not have permissions to write it, or there may be another problem. Please choose a different folder."

What does this mean? I have already tried deleting limewire and downloading it again multiple times.

Most likely it will refer to the location you chose is not within your OSX permissions status for saving & moving files to.

Many OSX users will use a location "within" their personal account folder. ie: OSX -> Users -> YOUR account name -> LW Downloads/Shared.

You will be unable to save to another person's personal user account folder & you will probably have problems attempting to save to the OSX top level folder or any system folders such as Library or System because they belong to the OSX system & can not or should not be used for making changes to.

What I do is save my downloads to a second hard disk drive / partition. You can also make a particular location yours by creating a folder or highlighting a drive (NOT the OSX System drive else will cause major problems!!!) & after selecting, go to menu bar & choose File menu -> Get Info. In the window that opens, click Permissions & details & change to your name. But do NOT do that on the main system drive.

I'm confused. The file that it is saved in is called limewire in applications. How can I change that, if thats what I'm supposed to do?

Your LW application program should be inside the Applications folder. However your location for saving downloads should be changed. Go to LW's preferences/options found under the LW name at top left on menu bar next to apple icon (Keyboard shortcut: ⌘ ,). Click Browse button under Save tab. Then direct it to a different location. If you see the example below (click to see larger view), you will see you have several options to reach your account. You could also choose Documents. Click New Folder button & name it when you have found a suitable location.

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I am having trouble installing LW . I am using Vista when download is complete and you install and then run LW gets to 12% and thats it , a folder appears on my desktop named incomplete

HI Scooters .. this is the Mac OSX section. Find the Vista section, check the Stickies at top of that section & post over there if needed.

Hi I am having the same problem, when I first installed LM it worked fine, then when i downloaded i got the save folder is not valid. I tried deleting the software and re installing and the program will not even open. It has the same error, save folder is not valid. I am new to the whole imac thing and am getting very frustrated. LOL Please help!!

Thanks!

My hard drive is in overtime and about to quit! Can I move limewire and my music over to an external hard drive? WIll there be any issues that could present with this?

yes there have been known issues with external drives. The external drive must be connected & mounted before opening LW. Sometimes LW has problems reading or seeing external drives when it opens & the download or shared files folders location reverts to default location.

Your external drive needs to be fast. It helps if your cpu is also fast. Too many incomplete files to load when opening can also cause LW problems finding an external drive.

It's worth a try though. So .. how to to:
Within LW do as image above in post #4 suggests but instead direct LW to your external drive. Then close down LW. Replace the new download & incomplete folders with the new ones. But make sure the download folder has the same name as the other. This should work. Just in case of problems, make a backup of your Downloads.dat & Downloads.bak files found in the incomplete folder before you begin this process.

Personally I have multiple internal hard disk drives & choose one of those instead for my downloads & shared files. I don't like storing user files on my OSX system drive user account so I can maintain as much free space as possible. The more free space the system drive has, the better it functions. All OSX programs & also the system uses VM (Virtual Memory) storing temporary memory on the system drive regardless of how much ram you have.

And on the topic of VM, OSX's Java uses a lot of VM & unfortunately has for a long time had bugs releasing this VM when no longer needed. Thus the longer you use LW, & the more searches you do, the more incompletes you have, etc. the more VM is taken up by LW over a period of time until you close the program.