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Title: mac users please help
Post by: scb on January 28, 2005, 09:08:03 AM

probably not an open forum topic, but i need to know soon so i am posting here

can someone go to this link and tell me if the download is corrupt?

http://xact.fellowtraveler.org/xact14b21.dmg.tar.gz


it seems that about 3 of every 4 files i upload is corrupt.  need to know if this one works (if the app opens), but i'm on a win2k machine at work right now

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: heath on January 28, 2005, 09:09:40 AM

unfortunately, I only have windoze at work too...

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: MattD on January 28, 2005, 09:10:52 AM

Easy ... MD5 it. Winzip can open the tarball, but I'm also on 2k, so don't know about the disk image itself. If you md5 it, you can check it on the Win2k machine. I'm not sure if TAR has the same built-in checksum that ZIP has.

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: scb on January 28, 2005, 09:13:25 AM

what?

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: scb on January 28, 2005, 09:22:29 AM

oh, do you mean md5 before I upload?  i don't have the file here, it's on my mac at home.  so if that file is corrupt, i can't do anything about it until tonight.  but i need to post on versiontracker and macupdate that it's bad

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: John Kelly on January 28, 2005, 09:24:58 AM

Works fine Scott. ;)

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: scb on January 28, 2005, 09:27:39 AM

thanks. 

and it's so dumb that i'm getting hate mail from people who couldn't download it at version tracker. 

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: MattD on January 28, 2005, 09:27:48 AM

Sorry - I assumed you had it with you and were just uploading from work, but couldn't download it back and test it b/c of the PC thing.

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: John Kelly on January 28, 2005, 09:31:18 AM

Quote from: scott brown on January 28, 2005, 09:27:39 AM

thanks. 

and it's so dumb that i'm getting hate mail from people who couldn't download it at version tracker. 

You're getting hate mail?  WTF? ???

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: Chris K on January 28, 2005, 09:33:40 AM

i hate people who send hate mail!

damn corporate world and thier pos windows computers. i'm in the same boat, macs at home, pc at work. boo-hiss.

scott i'm not avoiding your pm's, just last night i was a little busy and i will be taping tonight. can i get with you on saturday or sunday?

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: scb on January 28, 2005, 09:39:22 AM

sure, whenever.  i should be around this weekend.  at least, i hope to do nothing other than sit on my ass in front of the tv :)

as for the hate mail, some people love to bitch when something doesn't work no matter what.  nevermind that it's a free piece of software and that if they have to wait a few hours to download a working copy it won't kill them...

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: Chris K on January 28, 2005, 09:44:51 AM

+T for your troubles scott. i am sure there are many more people that appreciate your efforts than those that don't!

i'll im you this weekend. i even installed aim to my mac. i used aol last in 1995 or so, but my screen name is still active somehow. go figure

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: scb on January 28, 2005, 10:04:08 AM

hope i didn't come off as a complaining.  more like entertained by it all :)

Title: Re: mac users please help
Post by: RRobar on January 28, 2005, 08:29:43 PM

Quote from: heath on January 28, 2005, 09:09:40 AM

unfortunately, I only have windoze at work too...

????????? Don't you edit audio at work Heath (transfer, ect) and your only running windows! Ouch!!!

It seemed to work ok for me Scott.