Shortly after installing Lion Safari stopped downloading files. It woked for a litle while but now all I get is a grey screen. I can download fine using Firefox. I've tried deleting cache, reseting Safari and turning off/uninstalling extensions.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
What do you see with Safari's menu Window > Activity?
In the addres bar I see a blue status bar going accross the address like its doing something but the file never shows up in the download manager.
Try my previous suggestion.
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I've attached a screen shot.
Don't know if this is related, but my updated safari had pop up blocker auto turned on, and it was somehow blocking me downloading google chrome.
worked fine after i unchecked it.
I just tried turning off pop up blocker, no luck, still won't put downloads into the download queue. 😢
What do you see if you expand the triangle to the left of "Safari won't download files"?
It just shows the URL of this support discussion. It was on the browser when I took the screen shot.
That makes sense. I now realize that the title of this discussion is on that line. The line below that seems to show a download in progress. If you click the download widget at the right end of the tool bar (below the double-headed full-screen arrow), do you see a download progress bar? Is it moving?
No, nothing goes into the download queue. It did work, but now it doesn't. Thats the main problem I'm having.
Go to ~/Library/Safari.
Move the Downloads.plist file to the Trash.
~ (Tilde) represents your Home folder.
To see your Home library, hold down the Option key while selecting Go in the menu bar.
I deleted the downloads.plist file and reset Safari, no luck. I then deleted everything in the ~/Library/Safari folder, I reset Safari, deleted all cookies then rebooted my system...still won't work. When it tries to download a file (.zip or .dmg) it puts a blue progress bar over the web address location, the screen turns dark grey.
Sometimes it will download a .dmg and put it into the download queue. I just can't figure out why most of the time it will act like the .zip or .dmg is an html file. It looks like it is trying to load a web page then it stops.
Do you have anti virus software installed or Little Snitch?
Try Safari in another user account.
I don't have Little Snitch, I do have Symantec anti virus. I disabled the anti virus but it still did not work. I created a new user, logged in as that user and had the same problem.
Delete Symantec.
It is nothing but a piece of junk. The only thing it is good at is causing problems.
Shutting it down will not prevent it from causing problem.
The only sure way to solve the problems caused by Symantec is to completely delete it.
Symantec has an uninstall procedure on their site. Probably one of the best pieces of code they have ever written.
Allan
Safari won't download files
