[ddwrt]

Originally Posted by Sam

We'll take a look at that system tray icon -- I remember hearing some folks grumbling about. Should be easy enough to fix. Thanks for pointing it out!

Also... could you take a look at the limewire icon under the applications-> internet (ubuntu) tab. currently the icon is an actual green electrical wire. thanks.

Just another point... if you could make the system tray icon with transparent background, that would be perfect. That way it will work with any theme.

[Sam]

Re: the splittet files error... Does it happen immediately, or after the install progresses a little bit? Do you have a chance to hit "Details" during the install? If so, what is written out to it?

[lindersue]

I donwloaded Limewire 5 yesterday. I'm not real computer literate, but so far I'm not impressed. I can't find out how to play only the songs I want instead of all of them. I don't seem to have a status bar, or the stop, play, FF, RW or pause buttons. I'm running Limewire 5 and Java 6. Can anyone tell me what's happening? Or is it too early to really be using this, still has bugs to work out?

[nightlygregor]

Originally Posted by Sam

Re: the splittet files error... Does it happen immediately, or after the install progresses a little bit? Do you have a chance to hit "Details" during the install? If so, what is written out to it?

It happens at the installation progress. I get at the top of the
setup window: Installation Aborted - Setup was not completed
successfully.

Details:
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire
Extract: COPYING
Extract: LimeWire.exe
Extract: LimeWire.ico
Extract: SOURCE
Extract: data.ser
Extract: inspection.props
Extract: pmf.ico
Extract: spacer.gif
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire\lib
Extract: LimeWire.ico
Extract: PackedJars.7z... 100%
Extract: SystemUtilities.dll
Extract: SystemUtilitiesA.dll
Extract: hashes
Extract: jacob-1.14.1-x64.dll
Extract: jacob-1.14.1-x86.dll
Extract: jdic.dll
Extract: log4j.properties
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire\root
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire\root\magnet10
Extract: badge.img
Extract: canHandle.img
Extract: limewire.gif
Extract: options.js
Extract: silentdetect.js
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire

It's stops here and after that pop-ups the error "could not open an input file for splittet file"
After that i can only select cancel.

[con211292]

Originally Posted by nightlygregor

It happens at the installation progress. I get at the top of the
setup window: Installation Aborted - Setup was not completed
successfully.

Details:
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire
Extract: COPYING
Extract: LimeWire.exe
Extract: LimeWire.ico
Extract: SOURCE
Extract: data.ser
Extract: inspection.props
Extract: pmf.ico
Extract: spacer.gif
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire\lib
Extract: LimeWire.ico
Extract: PackedJars.7z... 100%
Extract: SystemUtilities.dll
Extract: SystemUtilitiesA.dll
Extract: hashes
Extract: jacob-1.14.1-x64.dll
Extract: jacob-1.14.1-x86.dll
Extract: jdic.dll
Extract: log4j.properties
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire\root
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire\root\magnet10
Extract: badge.img
Extract: canHandle.img
Extract: limewire.gif
Extract: options.js
Extract: silentdetect.js
Output folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\LimeWire

It's stops here and after that pop-ups the error "could not open an input file for splittet file"
After that i can only select cancel.

I Sorted Mine Out All I Did Was Save The Setup File & Run As Administarator Then Insted Of The Default Install Location I Used My Own DEFAULT e.g. C:\Program Files\Limewire INSTEAD PICK A DIFFRENT LOCATION e.g. C:\Program Files\Limewire 5 Beta

The Is What Made This Work On My Vista PC.

I Dont Know If It Will Work On Any Other OS With The Same Problem.

[davidf01]

since apple has decided not to backport any current java to the installed base of leopard on PPC (both 64bit and 32bit), there are some apps that are stranded ...

like limewire!

what are the specific features of jdk 1.6 that convinced you that abandoning nearly half of the mac installed base was an acceptable idea?!

other than the speed-up of jdk1.6 (or conversely, the lower cpu load at the same same application throughput), what was the show-stopper for jdk1.5?

it is too bad that this issue is not covered in any design/architecture discussion in then forums on your blogs!? (at least any that google could find).

thanx for the feedback.

[Aaron.Walkhouse]

Four older versions are kept on hand specifically for older Macs if you need one.

[Sam]

FWIW, it's not nearly half the installed mac userbase. I posted the numbers in an earlier post somewhere which I'll look for... but most seem to be on a platform that will work fine in LimeWire 5. (Still, it is unfortunate.. I can't run LimeWire on my laptop anymore. But it was a necessary change.) A blog post is a good idea, we'll do that.

[davidf01]

Originally Posted by Sam

FWIW, it's not nearly half the installed mac userbase. I posted the numbers in an earlier post somewhere which I'll look for... but most seem to be on a platform that will work fine in LimeWire 5. (Still, it is unfortunate.. I can't run LimeWire on my laptop anymore. But it was a necessary change.) A blog post is a good idea, we'll do that.

@Sam:

whether the installed base of ppc macs is 44% or 32% or whatever - it is definitely NOT trivial part of the TAM, eg 5 or 10%! ... 40M ppc (new world rom / G3++) machines are still running osx!

more important than the specific number of orphans, there still is unanswered the general question of why it was /essential/ to migrate to java ver 1.6?!

the simplest - but least convincing - answer would be consistency: perhaps you made the decision as regards another platfirm (eg msft windows) & this decided to drag the mac along in lock-step in order not to fork the code.

of course, that still begs the question!

looking forward to a concrete explanation :-)

cheers: David

[Sam]

It actually is a trivial percentage. Mac users make up only 4% of LimeWire users (it's not that it's not installed on a lot of macs, it's that it's installed on a LOT of PCs). Of OS X users, the percentage using something below 10.5 is very low.

Sorry I haven't had a chance to write up why we moved to 1.6 as a base requirement -- but there are a lot of reasons. We've been very busy working on fixing up LW5 to include missing features and other things people have been mentioning. When that settles down a bit, I'll write a blog post about 1.6 as a base.