How many virgins must be sacrificed to install Flash on OSX?

Post #257,671 by Another Scott 6/4/06 12:08:29 AM Reply	How many virgins must be sacrificed to install Flash on OSX? I've tried many times over the past few weeks, and have searched Google extensively, but on downloading the Flash Player 8.mumble installer and trying to install it on my wife's PowerBook G4 running 10.2.8, it always fails with: Error creating file. 1008:5,-5000 Access denied error OK You do not have enough access privileges for this installation. OK The information I've found about this hasn't been translated successfully by me. Some say setting the Ownership and Permissions of the /Home/Library/Preferences/Macromedia folder to Ownership by Me (who has Admin rights) and Read/Write for all, and all the subfolders, fixes the problem. Some say deleting the Macromedia permissions folder fixes it. Neither did the trick for me. I even created a new "Admin" user with admin rights. Exactly the same error. Adobe's web pages are less than helpful. Could someone out there tell me what exactly I need to do to get this installed? Please give as much detail as you can because the Ownership and Permissions stuff is still a bit of a black box to me. Thanks a bunch. Cheers, Scott.
Post #257,675 by pwhysall 6/4/06 3:22:22 AM Reply	Disk Utility, Repair Permissions and try again Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #257,688 by Another Scott 6/4/06 12:52:57 PM Reply	Something's mangled. Thanks Peter. Disk Utility would get stuck ~ 20% through running it from the hard disk. I booted it from a 10.3.5 CD and ran Disk Repair and it found dozens of "Overlapped Extent Allocations" (or some such) that it claimed to fix. It also claimed to fix the Permissions when I ran Repair Permissions. However, on rerunning the Disk Repair or Permissions Repair it would claim to fix the same things. ? Booting from the hard disk and running the Flash installer still gives the same error. I updated Firefox to 1.5.0.4 and now it occasionally crashes on startup (it just disappears). The only thing I can think that would cause all of this is that something seems to be mangled on the 30 GB IBM ATA disk. We'll back up what we can and I'll get another disk so that we can replace it and try a fresh install of 10.3.5 or maybe something later. If you have ideas of other things we can try, I'm all ears. Thanks again. Cheers, Scott. (Who really should break down and get a copy of some disk repair software...)
Post #257,700 by pwhysall 6/4/06 5:43:14 PM Reply	Get AppleJack. Boot into single user and fix it from there as per the instructions. [link\|http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=79562&package_id=83228&release_id=381564\|http://sourceforge.n...release_id=381564] Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #257,713 by Another Scott 6/4/06 8:30:07 PM Reply	I should have remembered that. Thanks for the pointer. I ran applejack in single user mode ("applejack AUTO restart"). It claimed to do its magic successfully, but the result is the same error on trying to install the Flash player. :-( I give up for now. I'll return to this project when I have more time. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #257,763 by pwhysall 6/5/06 5:10:05 PM Reply	Oh, you're interesting. No, wait. I meant the other thing. Tedious. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #257,764 by pwhysall 6/5/06 5:23:06 PM 6/5/06 5:44:01 PM Reply	More info This might be rehashing stuff you've already done, but nevertheless (this is someone installing the Flash 9 beta): [link\|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11622&vid=289114\|http://www.versiontr.../11622&vid=289114] Earlier when I tried to install version 8.0.2.4, the installer gave me this error: 'Error creating file - 1008: 5, -5000 Access denied error' Earlier tonight I tried to install the 9.0.0.297 beta, and I had the same error. Here's what I did to fix the problem: In the Finder I navigated to ~/Library/Preferences and opened the Get Info window for the subfolder 'Macromedia'. I checked the 'Ownerships and Permissions' section, and ensured that I was the owner of the folder, and that the permissions were read/write. Then I did the same thing for the subfolder 'Flash Player,' and every subfolder and item within that folder, and so on. Turns out some of the folders were 'owned' by a different user on the system (a non-admin user). After I fixed all of those errant files, I could install the 9 beta with no problems. Also, same error, different product, same company: [link\|http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19225\|http://www.adobe.com...x.cfm?id=tn_19225] Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! Edited by pwhysall June 5, 2006, 05:44:01 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #257,777 by Another Scott 6/5/06 8:44:27 PM Reply	I saw those, and tried them, but maybe didn't do them right. I'll have to get back to those methods in a few days. Not tonight though. :-) I'll report back when I have some more results. Thanks again, Peter. Cheers, Scott.
Post #258,550 by Another Scott 6/11/06 9:14:59 PM Reply	Update. Several things are biting me. 1) The PowerBook is running 10.2.8. Most of the backup and disk utilities out there require at least 10.3.x. A couple that don't are [link\|http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html\|Deja Vu] and [link\|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html\|Carbon Copy Cloner]. CCC shows the folders that it's copying, and using it I discovered that the Applications folder is where at least part of the problems lie. 2) There are apparently a mass of cross-linked files that the Mac OS X Disk Utility can't fix. I'll need to get a copy of [link\|http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/\|DiskWarrior] or [link\|http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php\|Drive Genius] or [link\|http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=48\|Tech Tool Pro 4]. What I'm attempting to do now is back up as much as I can to an [link\|http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822145099\|80 GB ATA disk] that I mounted in an external USB enclosure. I'm attempting to use CCC (it makes bootable backups). If that works, I'll try to install it in the PowerBook and transfer the remaining stuff that I can from the 20 GB disk when it's mounted in the USB enclosure. I'll probably get a copy of OS X 10.4.6 Tiger in a few weeks (since 10.5 is not due until next summer according to MacOSRumors). I'll get a disk utility package too (probably Drive Genius or Tech Tool Pro 4). I'll try to go through [link\|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=332983\|Gulliver's 10.4 Upgrade Checklist] too, when the time comes. I'll report back when I know more. Cheers, Scott.

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