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easy fix ( i hope ) plz help

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doubledvideo

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Whats going on??

I go to download.com, i want to try some software for my powermac, I click 'download now' and nothing happens...it just sits there...i am on a home wireless network, (my mac and 2 pc's)...is something wrong with my mac? its new...everything else works perfectly...all programs and webpages work perfectly...well..except my ver. of Safari doesn't work...starts loading the page and stops...so thats why i use Microsoft IE for Mac...but IE for mac...just sits when i want to download something from download.com??
anyone have this problem?

Let me know.!!! plz! :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
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First try repair permissions. After every software update, and about every 2 weeks: close all apps and log totally off. Log on, go in Finder, Applications. Utilities, Disk Utility. After the message -getting disk information- select volume (below the hard drive name -upper left corner). Just highlight it. Now look to the lower two things are there near the middle, verify permissions, repair permissions. Click repair permissions
 
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doubledvideo

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it didn't work, download.com didn't work...but thanks...i didn't know about that..i am new(er) to the mac world, i will do that from now on....i update my computer every week but never did that...is that compaird to windows ver. of defrag???

any other ideas for download.com?
 
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Try going to
Safari/Preferences/Security

Make sure all four things are checked in Web Content and cookies are set to sites you navigate to
 
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doubledvideo

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nope...safari still dont work...and IE still wont let me download from download.com....

macs suck..

j/k...

i still love my mac
 
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Try disabling the Pop-up blocker that might be stopping the page from opening.

Try out versiontracker.com or macupdate.com for the best mac downloads
 
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doubledvideo said:
it didn't work, download.com didn't work...but thanks...i didn't know about that..i am new(er) to the mac world, i will do that from now on....i update my computer every week but never did that...is that compaird to windows ver. of defrag???

any other ideas for download.com?
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It's the OS X check of file and command permissions. If you don't have Mac Janitor (free AFAIK) then make sure you run cron tasks Finder, Applications. Utilities Terminal type (switching to root - superuser) sudo sh /etc/daily > this needs to be done /weekly (instead of daily) and monthly. again with all apps closed File vault has what we can compare to defrag
 

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