Prev: PCI cards or hub? (Was: PCI cards for a G5...)
Next: PCI cards or hub?
From: Chris Ridd on 6 May 2008 13:13
On 2008-05-06 18:05:36 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:

> It looks like the downloaded update is corrupted in some way. I'll have
> to get rid of it, and try again. Where is it stored, and what's it
> called?

What about just downloading the security update directly, and installing it?

<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008002v11leopard.html>

You even get to check if the update is corrupted or not :-)

Cheers,

Chris

From: Peter Ceresole on 6 May 2008 13:23
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> What about just downloading the security update directly, and installing it?
>
> <http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008002v11leopard.html>
>
> You even get to check if the update is corrupted or not :-)

Thanks. Good idea- except that from tomorrow morning we'll be on wet
string in Geneva, so it'll have to wait for a fortnight or so...

Will the existence of what I suspect is the corrupted download file
interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it
certainly seems to now...
--
Peter
From: Chris Ridd on 6 May 2008 13:36
On 2008-05-06 18:23:55 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:

> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
>> What about just downloading the security update directly, and installing it?
>>
>> <http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008002v11leopard.html>
>>
>> You even get to check if the update is corrupted or not :-)
>
> Thanks. Good idea- except that from tomorrow morning we'll be on wet
> string in Geneva, so it'll have to wait for a fortnight or so...
>
> Will the existence of what I suspect is the corrupted download file
> interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it
> certainly seems to now...

I really don't know. I'd have thought that SU would only try to
download stuff that it knew wasn't installed, so a mangled download
shouldn't matter.

Maybe removing ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/ helps? We
agreed with Bella that anything in Caches is recreatable, so removing
it should not cause a problem.

Cheers,

Chris

From: Peter Ceresole on 6 May 2008 14:20
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> > Will the existence of what I suspect is the corrupted download file
> > interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it
> > certainly seems to now...
>
> I really don't know. I'd have thought that SU would only try to
> download stuff that it knew wasn't installed, so a mangled download
> shouldn't matter.

Okay. But when I was running Software Update on the MacBook, it always
went to the 'corrupted' file and didn't offer to try to download
anything further (except for Garageband update and something else that
we didn't want). So it looks as though it is seeing the file there, and
looks no further. So I reckon I'll have to delete it by hand.

Thanks for the help.

This has not *quite* been the Mac experience as I would wish it,
although I don't think that the chap that bought the MB was particularly
aware that things weren't going right. My feeling is that I didn't in
any way push him to get a Mac, in fact I told him that if he was happy
with his Dell he should stick with it, so I feel that although I'm very
happy to help him, I'm not really responsible for his problems. But of
course it doesn't really work that way; I'd like it to be a great
experience for him. And although everything else has worked very well
indeed, this has been a bit of a bummer. I'm just glad he got it from
John Lewis, in case of any more glitches.

In the mean time, his wife has a Dell desktop which he wanted to get
networked by Wifi rather than Ethernet, as they are repainting and
moving machines about. I slotted in a Belkin Wifi card and it worked
absolutely fine, easy-peasy. Hmmm.
--
Peter
From: Chris Ridd on 6 May 2008 14:46
On 2008-05-06 19:20:22 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:

> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
>>> Will the existence of what I suspect is the corrupted download file
>>> interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it
>>> certainly seems to now...
>>
>> I really don't know. I'd have thought that SU would only try to
>> download stuff that it knew wasn't installed, so a mangled download
>> shouldn't matter.
>
> Okay. But when I was running Software Update on the MacBook, it always
> went to the 'corrupted' file and didn't offer to try to download
> anything further (except for Garageband update and something else that
> we didn't want). So it looks as though it is seeing the file there, and
> looks no further. So I reckon I'll have to delete it by hand.

Yeah, but if you download the update directly and double-click to
install it, SU simply doesn't get a look in. *Afterwards* SU'll see the
package is installed and (hopefully) not bother with the cached thing.

> In the mean time, his wife has a Dell desktop which he wanted to get
> networked by Wifi rather than Ethernet, as they are repainting and
> moving machines about. I slotted in a Belkin Wifi card and it worked
> absolutely fine, easy-peasy. Hmmm.

Even Windows has to get it right sometimes, eh?

Cheers,

Chris

 |  Next  |  Last
Pages: 1 2
Prev: PCI cards or hub? (Was: PCI cards for a G5...)
Next: PCI cards or hub?