I have a PPC Mac running OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and an Intel Mac running OSX 10.5 (Leopard). On both Macs, the Finder's built-in unzipper barfs (after using 100% CPU for 1-2 minutes) when trying to unzip either http://boincdl.ssl.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_5.10.45_macOSX_universal.zip or http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.2.6_macOSX_universal.zip.

Fortunately, /usr/bin/unzip can successfully unzip the both ZIP files. But non-"power users" would never be able to figure that out.

On my Intel Leopard Mac, I can install and run BOINC correctly.

On my PPC Tiger Mac, the BOINC Installer fails on the last step with a generic error message: "There were errors installing the software. Please try installing again."

thanks,
chris

Forwarded to the developer.

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I've had word back from the developer.

Charlie Fenton wrote:

I've never had this problem. I run OS 10.4 Tiger on my PowerPC Mac because it is too old to run OS 10.5. I test every release (alpha and public) by downloading and installing it on that computer, and have never seen this problem, nor am I aware of anyone else reporting it.

Cheers,
--Charlie

So we either need confirmation from another source, or it's something on your system. Now I have no clue about Mac's and how they work, but could it be that you have to tell the OS to use unzip by default for zip files?

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I just downloaded BOINC for a third time and, for some reason, everything worked correctly!

I think my downloads had corrupted the ZIP file or something..

thanks,
chris

Intel iMac running 10.4.11

Problem: Can't unzip boinc_5-1.10.45_macOSX_universal.zip

Error message from the Unarchiver : Could not extract the file "boinc_5-1.10.45_macOSX_universal/extras/Uninstall BOINC.app/Contents": Could not create the folder.

and a second error "Could not write to the directory."

I tried a couple downloads, moved the archive, no difference. That is all.

Intel iMac running 10.4.11

Problem: Can't unzip boinc_5-1.10.45_macOSX_universal.zip

Error message from the Unarchiver : Could not extract...

Ok, I have it opened with BOMArchiveHelper. So problem solved, but hmmm.

-k

Problem: Can't unzip boinc_5-1.10.45_macOSX_universal.zip

Where did you download it from? What if you try this one: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_5.10.45_macOSX_universal.zip ?

(See the different names?)

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