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 rshutt on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 7:10pm.

Hi Paul,
Thanks.
Yes I got it.
Simply haven't had time to install and run it yet.
Shall do so later tonight.
Cheers,
Ron

On 20/12/2008, at 9:38 AM, marbux wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Universal Interoperability Council
>

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