[chris_h]

Doth mine eyes deceive me?

Looks like they've given LimewireX a much needed overhaul. It is fast now (and i'm on a g3 imac). They moved the menubar up to the top, gave it a non-assugly icon, and sped it up like i thought they never would.

I'm truly amazed.
http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...0275&db=macosx

[philzilla]

as many times as i clicked on the installer, i couldn't get the fecker to install. it just did nothing. will try downloading it again...

[edit: update]

nope. it just zooms along at a ridiculous download speed, then fails to open in stuffit, leading me to think it's corrupt somehow. can anyone provide an alternative download url?

[ 02-21-2002: Message edited by: philzilla ]

[jguidroz]

Yes, this is a very good upgrade to Limewire. It's actually very usable now on my B&W G3/300

[hotani]

uh, no. pigged up my whole system and refused to quit. After force-quitting i just put it with the past versions in digital never-never land.

Aquisition is still much better, and has only been out for a short time.

[shiny]

Look, Aquistion is good, but it does not compare to Limewire if you are on a fast connection because Aquisition does not offer multisource downloads. The reason Limewire won't quit is that you need to go into the preferences and make sure it quits right away rather than waiting for any impending transfers to occur.

[juanvaldes]

wouldn't unzip for me either.

[krove]

Is this a new version since last week. I downloaded a copy for use on my new iBook 600 last week and it still was: butt slow, really slow, and did I mention slow?

I hope its a new version...

[moss514]

It's amazing how a little (still just a baby) app like aquisition can scare the $hite out of the folks at limewire!! They got on the ball and made their app usable!!!

[malvolio]

Yes, by golly, the newest LimeWire is a speed demon!

[becca]

OK although it is the fastest since 1.7 I'm having a problem.
I get it to run fine save all my prefs and then I'll hide it in the dock
to run in the background. When I go to unhide it ,it locks me up so bad I have to force reboot. It won't even lt me force quit. I can't even tab around to the terminal to kill it.
Whats up with that?

[Rex]

I join the satisfied group. I had installed and removed all previous versions of Limewire not because of speed, but because they didn't quite work! Now we have something that works AND speed. Great!

[Jan Van Boghout]

Wonderful , and I actually got swarm download to work !

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by moss514:
<STRONG>It's amazing how a little (still just a baby) app like aquisition can scare the $hite out of the folks at limewire!! They got on the ball and made their app usable!!!</STRONG>

LOL! That could be the reason

[MacCubeBoy]

Originally posted by chris_h:
<STRONG>Doth mine eyes deceive me?

Looks like they've given LimewireX a much needed overhaul. It is fast now (and i'm on a g3 imac). They moved the menubar up to the top, gave it a non-assugly icon, and sped it up like i thought they never would.

I'm truly amazed.
http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...0275&db=macosx</STRONG>

Your right it is MUCH better. Why cant other OS X window resize like this?

[hotani]

hrmmmm. :-/

sounds like mine did not behave as others experienced. For me, LW was slow to even drag the window around... hogging CPU cycles like crazy, and hanging on actions like pull-down menus and the like.

Also: this is a problem I have in all apps of this sort: I find lots of stuff, but none of it ever downloads... maybe one out of 20 files will successfully connect and start downloading. Is it just my machine?

[MacAgent]

I'm, uh, not impressed. Aquisition is still better.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by MacAgent:
<STRONG>I'm, uh, not impressed. Aquisition is still better.</STRONG>

I have never gotten Aquisition, iSwipe, or LimeWire to work in OSX. I don't know what everyone is talking about. I searhc for files, audio and video, and nothing happens or they refuse to download. Hmmpf.

I heard that the new LimeWire was fast, and I was on my OS9 machine at the time so I tried the classic build, but it didn't seem that much snappier... and didn't return any hits when I searched for some popular video titles.

I will try Aquisition and LimeWire for OSX again when I get home.

[AKcrab]

How is it that there are such drastically different reports of experiences with limewire and aquistion? I have desperately wanted aquisition to work, but searches are slow, and the odds of getting a download are slim to none. Other people report "fantastic success" with aquisition? What gives?

Right now, I'm sticking with limewire, cause it will actually download.

[cacarr1]

Wow. I'm really impressed with the update. Aquisition is okay...just not as robust as LimeWire. Though the past few versions of LimeWire have been almost unusable. Kudos to the guy's at LimeWire (finally got it right...at least a little closer to 'right').

[cpac]

Originally posted by cacarr1:
<STRONG>Wow. I'm really impressed with the update. Aquisition is okay...just not as robust as LimeWire. Though the past few versions of LimeWire have been almost unusable. Kudos to the guy's at LimeWire (finally got it right...at least a little closer to 'right').</STRONG>

Agreed.

Aquisition is pretty good, particularly since it's just at v. 0.5, but it does need some work both in the stability and speed departments (and also, IMHO with at least an option for tabbed searches rather than multiple windows).

The new Limewire solves all the slow interface problems. (Although it's still a somewhat clunky interface) The adds are annoying, but now it works quite well...

cpac

[uochris]

The speed gain is like going from 10.0 to 10.1. They finally put out a product worth paying for so that's exactly what I did.

[Scrod]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
<STRONG>
I have never gotten Aquisition, iSwipe, or LimeWire to work in OSX. I don't know what everyone is talking about. I searhc for files, audio and video, and nothing happens or they refuse to download. Hmmpf.</STRONG>

You've gotta actually WAIT for the Gnutella client to establish at least a couple hundred connections before anything useful comes up. If you just search immediately after launching the program of COURSE nothing will show up.

[diskobolos]

Hey I was just about to post a thread about how damn slow limewire's interface was on my machine and then I saw and started reading this thread. Since a few of you were saying it wasn't slow I thought I'd try a few things to see if mine would speed up.

My limewire interface would do this weird pulsing thing and clicks would take a while to register, I looked in process viewer and with the limewire window visable window manager was at like 80 - 100% on my dual.

But I found what must be a bug.. limewire doesn't like thousands of colors. I switched to millions and all of a sudden the problems were gone. Of course limewire froze my system upon the switch, so quit it first if you're gonna switch. My itunes framerates will drop but at least limewire will be usable.

[waffffffle]

I haven't tried this new limewire yet but I really love acquisiton. It definitely takes the crown as being the best filesharing client for OS X. I can easily find everything that i'm looking for.

[stefls]

Fast...??? seems even outdated ( )machines like a 300 G3 performs well considering limewire, but not the icebook (krove e.g.)! I also own an ibook600 with 384Mb ram and it still is s----l----o----w.
Why does a (seemingly) simple application like limewire runs this bad? Maybe it's the icebooks' slow hd's?

Stefan

[velocitychannel]

I don't see much of a difference in speed. I do noticed some changes to the interface. But that is about it.

[clRagnarok]

my college is run by f�ckin nazis and they started blocking limewire last semester. are there any alternate servers or whatever that I can connect to? limewire is the only file-sharing app that i've ever had any luck with, so i'd like to start using it again.

[iKevin]

Woohoo...this new version dows rock

For those who can't decompress limewire or get it to install:

Rename it from .sit to .zip and try again....

If you got it decompressed and it is still not possible to launch the installer:

Leave the faulty installer where it is en decompress the zip file again in the same location and try to launch the just extracted installer....

This worked for me...

[iKevin]

Ok, I take back anything positive I said about the new limewire....If i donwload a shitload of stuff after it's complete it just disappears.....nowhere to be found

Really you should try http://www9.limewire.com:82/download/ and grab the latest version so that dragging the thing around doesn't suck so much.

[Eug]

Originally posted by iKevin:
<STRONG>Ok, I take back anything positive I said about the new limewire....If i donwload a shitload of stuff after it's complete it just disappears.....nowhere to be found</STRONG>

You didn't look hard enough.

[iKevin]

Originally posted by Eug:
<STRONG>

You didn't look hard enough.</STRONG>

Sure I did...I also looked on the Limewire forums where there's a large thread of people that have the same issue.

You guys should check out Fern. It's essentially a sleeker (cocoa) GUI slapped on limewire. Much faster.

[kennethmac2000]

You do realise, I assume, that by far the biggest factor in the GUI speedup is not any particular release of LimeWire but the recent Java Update 1.3.1.

[malvolio]

iKevin,
LimeWire creates an "Incomplete" folder at the root level of whichever drive you're downloading to. Only when the dl's are complete do they show up in the folder that you designate for your downloaded files.
I've never "lost" anything acquired with LimeWire. Have you done a Sherlock search for your missing files?

[ 04-08-2002: Message edited by: malvolio ]

[King Bob On The Cob]

When you kill a download for some reason ALL the files from incomplete are moved to the trash. (Or at least that's what I've found)

[chris v]

I can't get limewire to actually download 1 in 10 files I try. It times out, for 200 then 1000 seconds between retrys, and almost never actually initiates a download. I'm on Road Runner, and usually try to download songs with at lest cable/dsl on the other end. I've been throught the prefs several times, and can't find anything of substance to alter. After 10 or 15 days of having Limewire, I've successfully downloaded a whopping total of 6 files. Not a real big thrill. Have yet to see an upload from my machine, either, although search attempts show up.

CV

[Ghoser777]

Just for some clarifications

1) The initial speed increase happened before the Java update.
2) Gnutella works by connecting your machine to other machines. If you have dropped downloads that's probably because the person's machine you were downloading from disconected from the network. A good way around this is when you're doing a search and you see 13 of the same file, hit "Download Any."
3) There is no 3... okay, that was lame, but it's 5:25 in the morning here.

F-bacher

[kovacs]

This is still one one the worst apps I have ever used it is so damn slooooow. If you only want to download mp3's sputnix and aquisition are both much better. They don't crash ( aquisition 0.4 not 0.5), don't use 40 % of your CPU and don't take ages to start up.

[kennethmac2000]

Originally posted by malvolio:
<STRONG>iKevin,
LimeWire creates an "Incomplete" folder at the root level of whichever drive you're downloading to. Only when the dl's are complete do they show up in the folder that you designate for your downloaded files.
I've never "lost" anything acquired with LimeWire. Have you done a Sherlock search for your missing files?

[ 04-08-2002: Message edited by: malvolio ]</STRONG>

Yeah, there appears to be a bug in the most recent release. I don't have exactly the same problem as you, but on my machine LimeWire creates Incomplete and Shared folders at the root of my home directory every time I start it, even though I haven't specified that location for downloading to (and nor does it use it).

[iKevin]

Originally posted by malvolio:
<STRONG>iKevin,
LimeWire creates an "Incomplete" folder at the root level of whichever drive you're downloading to. Only when the dl's are complete do they show up in the folder that you designate for your downloaded files.
I've never "lost" anything acquired with LimeWire. Have you done a Sherlock search for your missing files?

[ 04-08-2002: Message edited by: malvolio ]</STRONG>

Yup...and nada...nothing in the system that could be the lost files. Look at the Limewire forums. This isn't a rare instance with the latest build. Seems to be a common problem

[himself]

Originally posted by iKevin:
<STRONG>

Yup...and nada...nothing in the system that could be the lost files. Look at the Limewire forums. This isn't a rare instance with the latest build. Seems to be a common problem</STRONG>

I had that problem when I updated to the recent version of Limewire... files would download into oblivion. I think I figured out the prob, tho...

Open the terminal, go to the root directory and switch to the "Volumes" directory. On my machine, I have two partitions (Mini X and Mini IX), but I should only see one in the Volumes directory, Mini IX (because Mini X is the root on my machine)... lo and behold, I have TWO directories in Volumes... Mini IX (my os 9 volume) and another called PowerBook IX (the old name for my os 9 volume). So, searching through this "ghost" directory ("ghost" because it shows up nowhere else: not the Finder, Sherlock, or any thing but the Terminal) I find a "Documents" directory, within which is a "Downloads" directory within which is an "Incomplete" and "Limewire Shared" directory... you can take a guess what I found in there. To make a long story longer, I proceeded to mv the downloaded files I didn't have already and rm the stuff I didn't need/want... now everything's copacetic.

ever hear of "Go to Folder..." That would have been easier than using the Terminal...

[himself]

Originally posted by &lt;King Bob On The Cob&gt;:
<STRONG>ever hear of "Go to Folder..." That would have been easier than using the Terminal...</STRONG>

Doesn't work.