ANN: PortAuthority 2.5 released

[David L Ballenger]

Yes, manually removing the ".bz2" from the file name works. So it is  
actually a ".dmg" file, not a ".bz2" file.

On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> David L Ballenger wrote:
>> I'm also having trouble with the download of PortAuthority, at  
>> least with Safari.  This is on a MacBook Pro with 10.5.1.
>> If I download with Safari, I get PortAuthority.dmg.bz2.  If I  
>> double click on that file in the Finder I get a  
>> PortAuthority.dmg.bz2.cpgz file.
>> Running bunzip2 -t on PortAuthority.dmg.bz2 gives:
>> bunzip2: PortAuthority.dmg.bz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored
>> If I then do bunzip2 -d it gives the same error message but  
>> produces a .dmg. However, trying to mount the .dmg gives a no  
>> mountable file system error message.
>> Changing the setting of Safari preference "Open safe files after  
>> downloading" didn't seem to have an effect on this.
>> However, if I download it with Firefox I get a mountable .dmg file  
>> with a usable PortAuthrority.
>>    -David
>
> Unfortunately, I can't confirm this on my end--the file downloads  
> via Safari and mounts fine for me.
>
> I have encountered errors such as this on a random basis with other  
> DMG's. Sometimes removing the .bz2 suffix solves the problem--the  
> DMG then mounts without trouble.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Walzer
> Code by Kevin
> http://www.codebykevin.com
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