Trouble downloading anything from Safari!

Question

OK, so here's my problem. Whenever I try to download something from a webpage using Safari or any other web browser, I get an error message in the download window that reads for example: "Safari can't show the file "iPodUpdate2006-01-10.dmg" in the Finder. Safari can't show the file "iPodUpdate2006-01-10.dmg" in the Finder because the file hasn't been created yet." That's just an example, but anything I click that uses that download window comes up with that same message. Please help.

Answer 1

Hi, Sean, welcome to Apple's user-to-user discussion forums.
Do you have problems regardless of website or just with specific ones? If the problems only occur with specific pages, could you paste the address in a reply so we can take a look?
What happens if you Option-Click on a file to download it directly?
What other browsers have you tried besides Safari?
What happens if you try downloading from a new user account? To create a new account, open System Preferences and click on Accounts. You may have to click on the padlock and give your admin name and password to create an account. Click on the plus sign in the lower right corner to create the new account. I see no reason to give it a password. You can delete this account later using using the minus key, although I have kept my second account to use for testing (the user folder only takes up 32 kb).