Total Inability To Download Anything At All From The Internet

Submitted by rshutt on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 4:26am.

I fully appreciate that this request for assistance may not be 100% within Teknoids' jurisdiction, but I am desperate. For some reason completely unknown, my iMac G5 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (running OSX 10.5.6) has very recently suddenly ceased being able to download anything whatsoever from the internet. I can access the web OK, send and receive email OK etc, but all attempts to download anything at all fail. Nothing whatsoever happens when I click on any "Download" link anywhere on the internet. No spinning wheel, nothing happening in the "Download Activity" window. Absolutely nothing. Can any helpful person suggest a possible reason for this ? Are there any files that I should specifically be checking on my Hard Drive  -  i.e. files that are essential for downloading to work ? If so, please advise and I shall see whether they are missing, corrupted or whatever. ANY help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. I am at a loss at present !!Thanks !!Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)(Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Law Lecturer and Legal ResearcherMelbourneVictoriaAustralia

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Submitted by marbux on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 4:42pm.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Ronald Huttner wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> Yes I did comparatively recently upgrade from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6.
> And I regret to say that I haven't a clue how to use whatever "command line
> ftp client" I may happen to have.
> I presume that you are referring to the "Terminal" application in Mac OSX ?
> I've never ever used it, as I have no understanding whatsoever of Unix.

Ron, did you get that installer for the Lynx browser I emailed you
off-list? Installing and running it is likely the simplest path for
you to download another browser. All you have to do is pretend that
the graphic ugliness of the Web is still there between the lines of
plain text. :-)

Best regards,

Paul

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