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Need help with mac.
Posted: June 28, 2005, 12:17 am
by MooZilla
i'm having trouble downloading a .rar file from my FTP. how do you do it on a mac? i have a rar-unpacking program, but whenever i click on the file to download it all this jibberish type comes up in internet explorer. is there a "save as" function per se?
Posted: June 28, 2005, 12:22 am
by Ransure
First, I would download it on a PC, then email it to myself on the mac.... that could work....
Posted: June 28, 2005, 12:27 am
by Fash
are ya sure you're using FTP? If you're using ftp through IE, you would need to right click (ctrl-click) on the file and pick save as.
Get Fetch for mac, real ftp software, and it will work... if you want to get it from your web hosting via HTTP, the server needs to be configured to treat .rar as a binary file...
on my apache server i put this into the config file:
AddType application/x-rar-compressed .rar
Posted: June 28, 2005, 12:29 am
by MooZilla
its a 700mb rar. emailing doesnt work too well
but thanks, fetch should work.
Posted: June 28, 2005, 12:32 am
by Ransure
Is it a BitTorrent file?... or your personal FTP?...
Posted: June 28, 2005, 4:49 am
by Hesten
Take mac to window, dump out window, go to PC, enjoy life.
Tadaa, problem solved.
Posted: June 28, 2005, 5:29 am
by Zaelath
That's not usually a mac v's PC problem, it's usually a jackass that has set the mime-type incorrectly on the server..