Hi there,
I have been having problems galore with my computer and I have asked some people for help. I have been given tons of suggestions and walk-throughs, but I'm still having problems. Someone suggested I post here so here I am.
I recently bought an iMac 600 via eBay. I previously owned an iMac 350, but it was not firewire capable and therefore I couldn't use my iPod with it so I decided to upgrade. The new computer was working fine. I installed 10.2.8 on it with no problems. Then a couple days ago I finished uploading all my CDs to my computer and tried to upload them to my iPod. This is when my problems began. When I plugged in the iPod, iTunes didn't recognize it. I tried to manually update the iPod software, but it said the iPod was not mounted. I tried reinstalling the system software but no luck. The "update" button was dimmed. After about the 10th try, a day later I finally got the iPod working. I assumed I hadn't pushed the firewire cable in snug enough. So I started uploading some songs, but it stalled (after about 800k was tranferred). I tried again and it got further, but stalled about midway (about 2.4 MB transferred. I took a break from that to clear my head of frustrations and decided to update my computer to 10.2.8. I used Software Update to download and install the 10.2.8 combined update. Software Update downloaded the update with no problems, but when it tried to install I got an error message telling me the install had failed and to try to download it to the desktop and install from there. I tried that but got the same error.
I decided to take a break and download a game from versiontracker.com. After the game downloaded, I all of a sudden couldn't unstuff it. I got an error with stuffit saying something to the effect of me needing the stuffit engine 8 to run. I was running Stuffit Expander 8 already. After a few failed attempts, I decided to try to redownload Stuffit Expander. When I tried to open it I got an error message saying DiskCopy had failed or something like that. I did a search for disk copy and realized I had 2 copies. I tried manually dragging the stuffit package to disk copy and it expanded with no problems. I then was able to unstuff the game I downloaded.
I tried to reinstall 10.2.8 again, but no luck. I then had a friend walk me through opening or unlocking some priveledges. I'm still not used to OS X, so I had no idea what I was really doing. She also talked me through getting rid of my "Previous Systems" folder. Anyway, that didn't help.
So, to summarize this lengthy problem, I was able to get Stuffit working, and after many attempts, my iPod will download some stuff before it stalls (never the same amount) but I cannot get Software Update to install the 10.2.8 combined update, although Software Update will download and install all the other software it has listed I am missing. All my troubles seemed to start after that first attempt to update the iPod.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I am grateful for any help you can possibly give me. Thank you!
. Should upgrading to 10.3 really solve this problem? Will I not have the same problems upgrading to 10.3 as I am to 10.2.8? I would try it, but of course before I shell out close to $200 Canadian, I'd like to make sure the upgrade will work.
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