Download trouble

Iv downloaded mountain lion for my mac book and when i try to download new software or an update for flash player or anything off the apple web site it wont download all i get is a black screen can any body help me please.

Which Mac do you have?
Have you installed Mountain Lion or just downloaded it?
Does the issue happen in all browsers? Ie have you tried Safari/Chrome/Firefox

mrplow said:

Which Mac do you have?
Have you installed Mountain Lion or just downloaded it?
Does the issue happen in all browsers? Ie have you tried Safari/Chrome/Firefox

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I have a macbook late 2008.Yes iv tried safari chrome and firefox still doesn't let me download i still get a black screen. i downloaded it from the apple app store.

So you have installed it? I'm going to assume you have.

Can you describe exactly what happens? i.e. you open Google Chrome, go to adobe.com, go to the flash player page, click download and at that point the screen just goes black? What happens then? Do you have to turn the Mac off?

It goes to a new page and says under the the address bar aihdownload.adobe.com/bin/AdobeFlashPlayerinstaller_11_aih.dmg but the page is black there is no writing on the page .I can press the red x inthe corner or press the back button to go back a page.its driving me mad i should have stayed on snow leopard i tryed to install snow leopard by the disc i have but it wont let me.I have done a back up but dont want to format my computer because i cant find some of the software discs that i have installed.

It sounds like you've got some kind of download manager app or plugin that doesn't work with mountain lion

How do i go about fixing it?

Well tell us. Speed Download or similar installed? Antivirus software installed? Donload Flash Player from Adobe's site only. Is GateKeeper blocking downloads?

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

Check safari preferences to see if you have any plugins/extensions. Disable them all for now.

Open system preferences - users & groups - select your user and look at login items

I disabled all the plug ins and got rid of login items and i still cant download is there anything else i can do?

I dont have any speed downloader or any anti virus software running i have gatekeeper switched to allow from anywhere is there anything else i can do im going crazy here thanks .

Late 2008 MacBooks are not able to run Mountain Lion, Lion OS X.7 is the final operating system that can be installed. Hate to ask but did you download from elsewhere than the App Store?

Also are you sure it's not downloading? I have had a lot of download URL's that took me to a blank page but if you look up in the tool bar for say Safari, there is a Down Arrow and that is showing a progress bar.

dtravis7 said:

Also are you sure it's not downloading? I have had a lot of download URL's that took me to a blank page but if you look up in the tool bar for say Safari, there is a Down Arrow and that is showing a progress bar.

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You may have hit on something there. The OP keeps saying blank..... Perhaps they mean blank......

I downloaded it from the apple app store everything else is working perfect i also have os x snow leopard disc i might just go back to snow leopard.Why would the app store let me download it if it wont work on late 2008 mac books?

Did you see the comments about the blank pages?

I just fixed it i went into service preference in safari and clicked on restore defaults and now i can download again thank you very much for all your help.

Glad you got it fixed, but that's not going to fix chrome and Firefox.

Definitely sounds life an app, plugin or extension that isn't compatible with Mountain lion.

Good work.

If it is running Mountain Lion myst be an aluminium MacBook which sold from about early December 2008/late June 2009. Late releases cause confusion. Take for example what is known as the current iMac, late 2012. They were not available for delivery until this year.