LimeWire 1.4b is a maintenance release of the Java-based Gnutella file-sharing client for both Mac OS Classic and OS X. [Classic: 7.5 MB; OS X: 3.3 MB]
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Max OS X is by default, the best Java platfrom. Get over it!!!!
The files not showing is something Apple really must fix, its a big pain in the a**.
However I dont know how you run Limewire over there, but on all the macs using OSX Ive tried it on it has been great. Limewire on OS9 is unusable and locked my OS9 up all the time. But in OSX it runs smooth as silk.. shame the developers cant seem to make a version you can just double click on to run...
J
I almost can't tell that this is a Java app. It runs great on my G4/400, and has a very responsive-feeling interface. Too bad it is such a pain to install and run. I may have to learn some shell scripting.
on 9.1, never an issue with LimeWire and it responds quickly in every way... dunno about LimeWire on X, I used X PB and did install the official release only to back away from it for any number of reasons... I am patiently awaiting the day when X becomes satisfactory to me, and I trust that day is not far off... keep pumping out those X updates, Apple...
Is there any way to tell what version I have now, or what this maintainance release fixes?
I downloaded it last week from versiontracker.com, from a link that said 'easy installation version' or something. I got a .dmg disk image which contained a double-clickable application. Some days it runs great, and some days it unexpectedly quits every 5 minutes. (this is Limewire, by the way, though it sounds like a different product than the one you all are using...)
Limewire on macOS9 IS useable, you are simply inaccurate. If you had some patience, you would realize that it doesn't lock your mac up, but what seems to be a lock up, is actually a long delay. Sure, it makes other things inoperable during this delay, but it eventually frees up and you can use it. I've downloaded hundreds of files via OS9.1.
peace.
paraphrasing here: "the fault lies not with the stars, but with ourselves", ergo, should LimeWire fail to work satisafactorily for you, it is your inability to create the proper environment for it to operate, i.e., there is something amiss on your Mac that keeps LimeWire from operating well... it does not freeze nor crash under 9.1 in my experience.
paraphrasing here: "the fault lies not with the stars, but with ourselves", ergo, should LimeWire fail to work satisafactorily for you, it is your inability to create the proper environment for it to operate, i.e., there is something amiss on your Mac that keeps LimeWire from operating well... it does not freeze nor crash under 9.1 in my experience.
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Performance of Limewire
Apple says that Mac OS X is "THE" Java platform, but applications
like Limewire are marginal performers on the platform. What
Limewire does it does fairly well, but it is still buggy and
slllllooooooowwwwwww compared with other Gnutella clients. My
major complaint is that once downloads are complete, they
do not show up in the Finder (even though you can see them
under the Terminal). This seems to be the same "bug" the
first IE had when downloading files from their browser.