media player download problem

[mkrishnan]

Ok. That didn't work. What are the other possibilties?

Problem with the program that mounts disk images... Try this:

Navigate to ~/library/preferences (in your home directory). Find the file

com.apple.frameworks.diskimages.uiagent.plist

In this directory, and delete it (move it to trash). Then try mounting the disk image.

This file is a preferences file for the disk image mounter (but there really are no preferences, so you won't lose anything important by deleting it). When an OS X program finds that this preference file is missing, it makes a new copy. So often times, when a program is misbehaving, it is because this preference file is corrupted, and deleting it and forcing the app to make a new one rights the wrong....

 

[sgd88]

Deleted the file. Emptied the trash too. But same thing still happens.

Thank you very much for your help so far. Are there any other possibilities?

 

[sgd88]

This is just an idea but maybe I don't have this DiskImageMounter ultility. If it is supposed to be in the ultility folder I can confirm it is not there.

 

[MisterMe]

This is just an idea but maybe I don't have this DiskImageMounter ultility. If it is supposed to be in the ultility folder I can confirm it is not there.

Apple seems to have wisely hidden DiskImageMounter from curious eyes. It is not in the Utilities folder. You have not deleted it.

 

[mkrishnan]

Apple seems to have wisely hidden DiskImageMounter from curious eyes. It is not in the Utilities folder. You have not deleted it.

All of the "CoreServices" are located in /system/library/coreservices/, including DiskImageMounter

In general, we should all be VERY, VERY careful touching the System folder. There is almost nothing that is ever necessary to do on a Mac that requires you to manually go in there, even for most power users.



Ahem.

That being said, that's exactly what this hint suggests you do, and you might want to try it. It may be a good idea to move the files to another location (like the desktop) instead of deleting them, although they're cache files and it should be safe to delete them. In this way it is always possible to put them back. You will probably be asked to authenticate at several steps in this process. But if disk images aren't mounting for you, this is a serious problem and worth solving.

Here is the link.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031207012226892

 

[sgd88]

Upon by next reboot (or attempt thereof) I couldn't boot. I did everything that the manual says. All those wacky key combinations on boot. I did the hardware test. I did fsck. I did everything I could.

I phoned Apple Support who did all the same things again. The result of them was to say that the hard disk had a fault. Luckily the data I had on it was not very precious (and there was not much of it). So we formatted it and then reinstalled the OS. Everything is working swimmingly so far I have got the stuffit expander now I just need WMP!