Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, I cannot get any downloaded .dmg files to do
anything. After downloading them, I double click on them and nothing happens. Nothing. No error message. No bouncing dock icons. Nothing. I've tried downloading them using Firefox and Safari with the same results. This is happening with all .dmg files, not just the same ones, so I know it's not unique to a particular .dmg file.
Any ideas or fixes? Anyone else having this issue?
15" Macbook Pro (LED screen, pre-unibody),
Mac OS X (10.6),
MBP: 2.4Ghz, 2Gb RAM
That's controlled by /System/Library/CoreServices/DiskImageMounter.app. Select a .dmg file, CMD+I, and see what's indicated under *open with.* If not that app, then select it, and click Change all. Now, double-click on a .dmg file and all should be well.
I've now noticed that I cannot open or execute ANY files. If I double click on any icon, the default app will hang when opening, with the icon eternally bouncing on the dock until I "Force Quit" it.
The only way around this is if I first get into the program I want to open them with and manually choose to "Open File..." from the "File" menu.
Add me to the list with this problem... Fresh install of Snow Leopard. The problem started before updating to 10.6.1.
I first noticed when trying to unrar something. unrarx just jumped for a while, then stopped but didn't do anything. I had to force quit and just sucked it up as a possible unrarx incompatibility.
Shortly after installing unrar via port so I could just extract the rar I needed to, I tried double clicking a zip file and Archive Utility did the same thing as unrarx.
At this point, I loaded up Disk Utility and tried to fix permissions thinking it was something weird like that but only a few Flash files were found. After I was done with that, I updated to 10.6.1 and restarted. Everything seemed to work again for a little while but the problem has come back.
I'm pretty sure this is a finder issue.. I've tried to open various different file types via finder and most of them have the same result. But I am also able to open up the application by itself and open the file from there just fine..
While testing out the various file types, I noticed that some files of the same type would open from a different location.. i.e. An xcode project I have opens fine as well as all the files inside it's folder (png's, .h, .m, .xcodeproj) .. but the same type of files that I just downloaded and tried to open from my Downloads folder hang. Very strange.
It talks about changes made to how the OS decides to choose the default program for opening files. Maybe our issues have something to do with this change?
I was wonder. People who has problem with applications not running when trying to open a document installed 10.6 fresh or over 10.5.8? I install over my 10.5.8 system, since I don't want to have to reinstall some of my applications.
I hate to have to keep doing this ALL the time just to get the files to be recognized and open the correct application. Anyone else have an idea what we can do to result the issue.
has anyone had any luck solving this?
I have exactly the same problem, after a few hours of using Snow Leopard, DMGs fail to mount, zips won't open, clicking on files don't open the applications they should or the icons icon but just bounce forever... this really is a deal breaker of a problem 😟
