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bz2 extension” when you read the “not recognized” error message

Compressed mac os x dmg image not recognized how to#

However, it would be nice if you could specify just HOW to “remove the. I have an older G4 14” and I have the same problem. Thank you! Worked like a charm, I’ve been trying to figure out why I couldn’t open these files for a long time now. Thanks a lot for the hack! Solved my problem. Thanks a lot for this fix! Helped me lots. You can follow any responses to this entry through theīoth comments and pings are currently closed. On Thursday, May 17th, 2007 at 4:19 pm and is filed under macosx, tips. Thanks to the guys at Unsanity for the heads up on this one.

Compressed mac os x dmg image not recognized zip#

zip with the correct MIME type rather than as a. If this was the cause of the problem the disk image will successfully verify and mount.Īs to why only the Intel version of Blender had the problem, it turns out that the PowerPC version is served as a. dmg then try opening file again in the Finder. bz2 extension from the original downloaded file leaving just the final. The temporary workaround is to, when and only when you see the “not recognized” warning, remove the. The proper fix is to let the provider of the file know about the problem, and point them at Unsanity’s post at osx/my dmgis bwokenafter_download.php for details.

Compressed mac os x dmg image not recognized archive#

Now many compression methods include internal checks (looking for specific tags or verifying a checksum) to make sure you are applying them to bone fide compressed data but it appears bzip2 doesn’t, or at least the OS X archive helper doesn’t use them. OS X dutifully applied the bz2 decompression algorithm to the disk image data, strips off the extension and attempts to mount the resulting disk image which fails because it’s been thoroughly scrambled. bz2 to the download when in fact the bz probably means the contents of the disk image use that compression method. Basically, the disk image is sent to Safari as a generic blob of data instead of being tagged as a disk image and Safari makes an (incorrect as it turns out) guess presumably based on the “bz” in the file name that the disk image was compressed using bzip2 after it was created and appends the extension.

It happened again yesterday but this time today I bumped into this weblog posting by Unsanity that points at a server configuration issue as being the cause. It’s happened several times when I tried to download the Intel Mac version of the excellent free 3D package Blender and I wrote it off as corrupted files. From time to time I’ve downloaded Mac OS X Disk Image files only to have the system display a cryptic warning that it failed to mount because it was “Not Recognized”.