Installing Macromedia Flash player 8 Trouble

I don't know what to tell you about the eBay stuff, but I just downloaded the latest Flash Player from http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash without any problem. Maybe you were trying it from some other download site. BTW, it downloads as installflash_playerosx.dmg and expands to a mounted disk named Macromedia Flash Player 8 when double-clicked. The installer is inside the disk.

Hey, man. Let me know if you have figured anything out about the installation problems that you are having with the Flash player. I am having the exact same problem. I tried that link in the response to your original post, but the same problem comes up. Here's to hoping it gets solved soon.

If you are running Safari on "universal" (for Intel duo macs) close the application and go to "get info" in the finder. switch on "open in rosetta". then, reopen safari and try to re-install flash player. After the test screen at macromedia comes up. you can close safari again and switch it back to universal to speed it up again. I had this problem for a couple of days and tried, unsuccessfully, to get support from adobe. this worked for me.

iMac 20" Intel duo Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I am having the exact same problem, gets to the point where it is searching HD with 4 items to install and no further.

baltwo I downloaded directly from macromedia and have the same problem where the download fails with 4 items left to install.

I'm a bit confused by the download fails phrase in your last post. Are you saying that you successfully downloaded the installflash_playerosx.dmg file from the Macromedia site, that you can mount the image, that you successfully double-click on the enclosed Install Flash Player 8 OSX.app, and then that the installer hangs with the phrase 4 items left to install showing in the installer window? If so, then say so.

If this is your problem, then yours is different than what the OP reported. He said he couldn't successfully download the file. I just DL'd and mounted the image.

G4 450 MP Gigabit Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I think he may be stating it wrong. Yes the image mounts fine, the installer starts fine and it eventually hangs when searching HD with 4 items left to install.

Try this. Move anything from /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ with flash player in its name to the desktop, restart, and reinstall flash player. If that doesn't work, then I'm out of ideas, because it worked for me back in Octorber. Version 8.0.22 resides on my machine.

G4 450 MP Gigabit Mac OS X (10.4.5)

baltwo thanks for your help. I did what I should have done first, I tried to install on my eMac and did with no problems. Then I did what seemed to be the only difference between the 2 machines, I installed Netscape and IE on my G4 and no problems Flash 8 didn't get hung up with 4 items left to install.

Allthough your post is still a bit confusing, let me summarize in my terms so we're both on the same page:

You installed the flash player onto your eMac without any problems (the tried attribute is the confusing one).

You tried to install on the G4 and got the hang. You installed Netscape and IE onto the G4 so that it would look like the eMac and then successfully installed the flash player.

Did you move the old flash player files out of /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ before doing that? The reason I'm asking is to determine which steps allowed the installation to complete.

Sorry for the confusion, but you have it right. I did remove the items from the /Library/Internet Plug-ins before the install that worked, but also before one that got hung up at your suggestion.

As a matter of fact I had the window in the Finder open to /Library/Internet Plug-ins while trying to install on the G4, after removing the Flash items, when it got hung up, I saw the Flash Plug-ins there so that's why I assumed the IE and Netscape problem. When I stopped the install the plug-ins disappeared.

Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully, others having the problem can get it to work.

I hope it works for others as well. It just seemed like it was looking for a place to install 4 items probably having to do with IE or Netscape. Not sure if all 4 couldn't be found or if it was the 1st of the 4 that was causing the hang.

At first i thought it might be something with version 7 being on the machine, but after following your suggestion and removing the items from the internet plug-in folder I saw that the installer was actually putting the items there before the hang and taking them out again after stopping the install.

I have a new install of Tiger on a new HD so I didn't think anything was interfering, but then I realized I didn't have IE or Netscape on this machine only Safari and Firefox. After trying on the eMac which installed no problems I tried to add the browsers and it worked on the G4 as well.

Thanks again for your time and suggestions, a few posts here got the new version on my machine versus 4 emails with Adobe with no resolution yet. I will wait for their next suggestion to send them the fix that seems to have done the job.

It's strange because I don't have Netscape for OS X intalled and have never had your problem. Good computing.

Do you have IE?