What is error code 5

Trying to download game from non-apple website, I get message "download failed" Error Code 5.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Trying to download game

Posted on Jan 8, 2014 8:27 AM

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Jan 8, 2014 8:32 AM in response to sadie92482

You shoudl contact the developer of that website and ask what that code means. When you do please be specific, asking a question such as;


I am visiting www.gamesitedownload.com and attempting to download yourgames version 1 on my 2013 27" iMac which is currently using OS X version 10.8.5. I use Safari as my browser, when I attempt this download I get a download failed" Error Code 5. Can you assist me?

Jan 8, 2014 11:27 AM in response to rkaufmann87

Thank you for responding. I did contact the website and was told that the problem may be with iTunes permissions and to open disc utility & run repair permissions. So I opened disc utility but I thought it would be better to run "verify permissions" first. After doing that, it showed that everything in iTunes permissions needed repair so I ran "repair permissions". After that I went back and ran"verify permissions" again. Again the result was the permissions were wrong. I should add that everything worked fine when I first got the computer. The problem began when I Used migration assistant to transfer the files from old computer which had Snow Leopard OS.

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