Problem Downloading

[sharbarr]

I have had constant trouble downloading anything on my Mac mini.

I have tried downloading MSN messenger, Attatchment from online Email, and other various things. When i download from Safari it tell me in the download window, "Cannot Create File".
Or when I try to download form any other browser it just gives me an error message saying to change the preferences of some folder.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Kelmon]

Silly question but where are you attempting to downloading the files to? The Desktop?

It sounds, from your description, to be a permissions problem, i.e. you (or the application) does not have the permissions necessary to create files at the download location specified. If you are downloading the files to a location within your user account then there shouldn't be a problem but specifying a location outside would likely cause issues. If this is the case then it might not be a bad idea to check the destination location folder's permissions in the Finder (using Cmd+i) and see if you have read/write permissions; if not then correct so that you do.

 

[R.R.Mac]

did you ever have speed download

use opera and see if you can download anything with that. I did that and opera told me what to do. Opera is a mac web browser

 

[sharbarr]

thanks for the help.
I have not tried Opera yet, but i've tried Camino which is also a Mac Browser.

It says I do have read/write permission to my desktop where it is downloading to, but it still says Cannot create file

 

[sharbarr]

It works now, thanks for the help