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Topic: Can't get Version 6 to install??

I download version .06, unzip the the dmg, but when I try to install it says... "the following disk image fail to mount" ... reason... "not recognized"

And while I have you? For some reason .05 will not shuffle its tracks??  I select the option, but it just plays the songs in the list in it's order??  I'm actually happy with .05 if I can work out the shuffle option.  I was hoping .06 may have fixed some bug with it??  Though, I cannot get it to install.  sad

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

Yep.  In fact, that is where I've been downloading it from all along.  I even tried various mirror sites on that page.  Still, I get as far as getting the dmg on my desktop, but as soon as I click on it, I get an error message saying it won't "mount" the image.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

you said you are unzipping the dmg. is this a zipped dmg? or just a plain dmg? safari has some issues interpreting mime types and occasionally appends extra file-type suffixes. in this case you would change the file name and remove the .zip part, leaving the .dmg there. if you are speaking of a different issue, then i dont have any other ideas.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

Halakari is correct. The file should be Cog-0.06.dmg. There are some mime-type issues with certain archiving programs that cause safari to append a .bz2 to the filename when there shouldn't be one. Rename the file and remove the .bz2 and it should mount fine.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

It appears the extension was indeed .bz2.  Renaming the file did the trick as well. 

Also, I am happy to report the shuffle works for me on this version.  Thanks guys!!! I used Winamp with my Windows computer and when making the switch to MAC, I couldn't find a compatible player where I can just drop and drag my music from either my hard drive, external drive, DVD's or CD's without some issue popping up.  ITUNES is nice, but I don't want to always add tracks to my library when playing them.  Also, ITUNES doesn't allow you to play music from DATA DVD's, etc.  Or at least, I cannot figure how it's done.

Thanks again.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

I just tested this in Safari, and indeed, it does do that.

Until there is a way to fix this, perhaps there should be a little bit of text under the download link saying something like:

Safari users: The file name should be "Cog-0.06.dmg"; if it is "Cog-0.06.dmg.bz2", please remove the ".bz2" part.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

It's not always a problem. From what I can tell, t only occurs when you have messed up mime types. On my machines, Safari works fine, until I installed BetterZip. Then it starts adding the .bz2 extension. I'll keep this in mind though. Hopefully either Apple will wise up, or mime-types will stop being broken, otherwise I'll just make it a dmg.bz2 instead of using the compression in dmgs.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

vs, i had to uninstall betterzip as well, but after a day i realized it was too useful for me to get rid of, i had a back up of betterzip 1.4.2 which i reverted to, and that version does not seem to cause the problems 1.5 does, if you want i could send you it.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

Are you guys sure it's BetterZip though?

'Cause I don't have BetterZip installed, and I still get ".bz2" too.

I have The Unarchiver and StuffIt Expander installed.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

if it is just safari, or even os x in general, that looks bad for apple... and it would also mean i bothered the betterzip guy(s) for no reason hmm

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

It's both. If either of them get "fixed", the problem would be solved. Safari because it decides to add file extensions based on mime-types (In my opinion, it should be using the filename the sever told it). The other apps because they somehow tell safari that this .dmg file is actually a .bz2. I don't know the specifics on it though.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

I used both "Zipeg" and "Stuffit" and still had the problem.  But yeah, I would add that little line about the changing of text.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

Would putting the dmgs in a simple tarball or something stop Safari from buggin out? It scares me that this is probably alienating potential users...

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

Probably could try using an uncompressed dmg inside a bz2 (a .dmg.bz2) instead of using UDBZ compression in the image.

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Just tested with Safari: mounts fine.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

downloads / extracts / mounts fine for me, safari 2.0.4

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

Yes, this works fine. I also got the dmg-error before.

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Re: Can't get Version 6 to install??

Ok, I updated all the url's and downloads on the various sites. This should be taken care of.