Ever since Apple released the itunes 6.03 update I’ve been having headaches. Out of the three machines I ran it on I had install issues on two. My work design station I had to track down the Installshield scripting interface updates and follow the directions to remove and reinstall that. And my Living Room box I still haven’t been able to get it installed. After downloading it over 12 times using 3 different browsers I still keep getting the fact the installation files are corrupt.
Now I really am getting curious as what is going on, as I had unistalled my k-lite full codec install thinking I was getting a quicktime install error. But when I went to reinstall it.
So besides getting majorly confused I decided that something else was up. But in looking into it I noticed that the itunes is actually rarred and setup as a self extractor which then runs the setup. So I tried extracting the exe…. and the file is corrupt. Each downloaded file is slightly diffeent, but they all seemed to die around the same point:
! C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick Havens.*********\iTunesSetup.exe: CRC failed in QuickTimeInstaller.exe. The file is corrupt
! C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick Havens.*********\iTunesSetup.exe: Unexpected end of archive
So either I’m getting a badly uploaded file. or for some reason the file is getting corrupted (many times) when I download the file(s).
I’m going to look farther into what’s going on (since there must be others with this issue) and I’ll edit the post with more info.
Well I was finnally able to get updated… by using a Download helper. Which makes me wonder… is my net card adding so much noise that downloads from iffy hosts die? And when did Apple become an iffy host?