Unable to install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 (1.09 GB) - disk image not recognized.

I see the same thing, except that downloading from the MacUpdate link doesn't help. However, the non-combo updater mounts just fine. Are you sure you ended up with the combo updater? The main MacUpdate link is for the non-combo updater.

Same problem here. I downloaded it twice from Apple and got the disk not recognized message. The previous 10.6.8 combo update is fine.

Yep, Apple has screwed up YET AGAIN.

Anything vaguely related to the OS 10.7 Lion upgrade appears to be jinxed or poorly prepared. The flood of problems listed on the 10.7 forum is ample testament.

After a disastrous series of attempts to upgrade from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8, which rendered the new-ish MBP useless and unbootable every time, I rebuilt it to 10.6.7 and there it will stay forever unfortunately, not only due to the aforesaid upgrade problems but because Apple has decided that we have all had long enough to upgrade everything else and has discontinued Rosetta. At a single stroke Apple will have disabled a good 50% of my legally purchased software and at less than ten months old my MBP has become a dinosaur.

So much for being an 'Apple Individualist', like their 1984 promo would have us fondly believe.

For those of us who need to update multiple computers, this download is needed. I'm getting the same error:

"The following disk images could not be opened. Reason: not recognized."

Also, the file is only 1.07 GB, not 1.09 GB as advertised. I've tried from the downloads page and from the knowledgebase article and get the same incorrect file.

same problem here yesterday

then downloaded from APPL again with different computer, different location today and

now is 1.09 and works

Just tried it again now and got the same error as before. Still only 1.07 GB.

Hi,

I have downloaded the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 dmg a couple times today. The disk image mounter says it doesn't recognize the disk image. Could someone over at Apple Support pull that dmg file in favor of one that'll work?

Hey, thanks!

-Mike

Same issue here...

*** Apple, it took me like 9 downloads to get a good Lion update from the App Store and now I can't get the Combo update. Downloads 1.07 GB for me as well.

Thank God I don't have a data cap, I'm sure my ISP is going to start ******** about this sooner or later...

I went home, downloaded it from my Lion MBP on AT&T U-verse, and it worked great. Tried it again today from our University connection through Time Warner Business Class on a Snow Leopard iMac and it failed again.

Since I have a copy now, I'm done with this. Good luck to those still having problems.

I tried downloading it with a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and an iMac running Leopard. Neither worked. Both resulted in the 'not recognised' error.

So let me get this right. In order to update to Lion - which I never will - you need the 10.6.8 update for your Snow Leopard computer. But you cannot get it without having Lion in the first place.

Ahh. I get it. We have to go and buy a new computer with Lion pre-installed so that we can update the Snow Leopard one.

Not totally true

I have no Lions and multiple Snow Leopards.

Some Snow Leopards work, some do not.

In my experiences, it's totally random. What I mean is: the combo update downloaded from some locations/providers is the correct one (10.9GB), the very same combo update downloaded from other locations/providers is the flawed one (10.7GB). For no apparent reason.

Since I managed to get the correct .dmg, I just uploaded it on dropbox to the benefit of any other SL user with the same problem as me.

Please enjoy:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35964161/MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.8.dmg