Downloads in Downloads Folder error

This doesn't relate to a Mac OS X download....
in my download folder, I can see the download bar, but it's stalled, I search through the folder and see nothing that is downloading so I'm starting to assume it's a bug in OS X 10.6
Any way to resolve this issue?
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*Fixed* Just did a restart on my Mac
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I am having a difficult time downloading HD movies from iTunes. I tried on both my imac and new macbook pro but 95% of the time I get error 8008 (corruption). I can stream HD content from Netflix and hulu w/o problems. I also empty my download folder.

After it started happening on my imac I tried to download on my ne macbook pro but the same thing is happening. I can stream without any ral noticiable problems from my icloud library, Netflix, and Hulu but when I try to download so I can back them up I get the 8008 error code. I have contacted spple support and am still waitin on an answer. Sometimes the error will happen towards the beginning and other times when it is almost downloaded. I can tell it is atarting when the time remaining starts to fluctuate, then the download bar may stop ans start over. It seems to be an icloud problem but I thought I would check to see if anyone else has had the problem and was able to get it taken care of. It should be noted that everyonce in a while I do get a complete download.

These alerts occur due to timeouts or conflicts trying to write a file during download.
If you encounter this issue while while downloading something from the iTunes Store:
Delete your iTunes Downloads folder, located in:
Mac OS X:  ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Downloads Note: "iTunes Media" may appear as "iTunes Music. Also, the tilde (~) refers to your Home directory.
After locating your iTunes Downloads folder:
Quit iTunes.
Delete the Downloads folder on your computer.
Open iTunes.
Choose Store > Check for Available Downloads.
Enter your account name and password.
Also review this support aticle as it might be causing due to internet connection: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1368
Hope this helps.

Changing "Mail Downloads" folder for attachments

It seems in Leopard Mail, when you double click an attachment to open it, it is temporarily saved to ~/Library/Mail Downloads. This is in contrast to (I think) Tiger, where it would be saved to the Downloads folder set in the General preferences. There is still a setting for the Downloads folder in the General preferences, and according to the help window, it is to "Specify the folder in which to temporarily save attachments you open from a message". To me, that means the same as the Tiger behavior. However, if I change this preference to, say, "Desktop", it seems opening an attachment (not explicitly saving it) still saves it to the ~/Library/Mail Downloads folder, not the assigned folder. Is this the correct behavior? If so, the help window is misleading. Personally, I would like the option to change this folder, although I suppose there are workarounds such as changing the Mail Downloads folder to an alias of the desired destination folder.
thanks.

Ok, so much for that clever workaround. Doesn't work, Mail just throws up an error and refuses to save the attachment. Any other ideas? I just want Mail to auto-save opened attachments onto the Desktop, in case I forget to explicitly save it, and so I don't have to root into subfolders to find it.

Can't download purchases due to download folder permissions on NAS

I downloaded several podcasts using my iPhone whilst away at Christmas. My media library is stored on a Buffalo NAS with the library xml stored locally and after syncing with iTunes I can no longer download new purchases reporting error - 5000.
"There was a problem downloading ************. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.
Please check that the connection to the network is active and try again."
I've investigated exhaustively to solve the issue. Apple's iTunes Store troubleshooting suggests the following:
If you encounter this issue while while downloading something from the iTunes Store:
Delete your iTunes Downloads folder, located in:
Mac OS X:  ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Downloads Note: "iTunes Media" may appear as "iTunes Music. Also, the tilde (~) refers to your Home directory.
However, I can't delete the Downloads folder because I do not have sufficient access permissions. Worth noting that the files on the Downloads folder correspond to those downloaded by my iPhone so the iPhone has caused this issue, even though I have been able to perform this task away from home before without these issues before iCloud and Match came along.
So, now I'm faced with a Downloads folder that I cannot delete even using Sudo rm -rf in terminal, CHOWN, CHMOD or even MV to relocate the files. There are no answers on this issue on the Buffalo forums so I am opening this frustrating issue up to the geniuses on the apple discussions group to see if anyone can help. Thanks

Okay, I solved it myself - surprisingly.
I logged into the NAS using Telnet as 'root' and this allowed me to delete the 'Downloads' directory without any permission issues. After re-opening iTunes it was able to download the backed-up purchases without error.
I don't know if the iPhone will cause permission issues again down the line though, so this may well be a bug in the latest iTunes version?

Firefox does not delete the .part file from my download folder after a successful download

First off, I'm on a MacBook Pro, running 10.6.4 and FF3.6.12
I've recently noticed that on occasion Firefox does not seem to delete the .part file associated with a successful download. The .part file (with a name consisting of a string of random characters followed by a .part extension) is visible in my Download folder stack, although not visible in the actual folder view. I cannot drag this file from the stack to the trash.
The real problem stems from the fact that this seems to create a directory error on my hard drive. Were I to run Disk Utility (which I will have to do... again!), it would return with an error saying something like "incorrect block length", requiring me to boot up from my install disk and repair the drive.
Is this maybe a bug? Is there something I might be doing wrong? Could an extension like AdBlock be messing up my downloads?

It seems that FireFox leaves those partial download files if for any reason they get interrupted. It's possible to resume the download through various uninteresting means, but if you're like me, it gets filled up with files that I intentionally did not complete downloading.
If you're terminal-savvy, you can set up a script that cleans up old .part files. Here's what I've set in my crontab:
0 * * * * /usr/bin/find ~/Downloads/*.part -atime +1 -exec rm {} \; &> /dev/null
It will delete any files in my downloads folder that are at least 1 day old.
To install this in your crontab, launch terminal and type "crontab -e"
This will bring up a text editor, probably vi. You'll see a bunch of ~'s down the left side. Type "i" to go into "insert" mode. The bottom left will say "-- INSERT --"
Copy and paste (or type) the line of code I have above.
Hit enter just to make sure you have a newline at the end.
Hit "Escape" to exit the insert mode.
Hit Shift-Z Shift-Z (that's Shift-Z twice) to exit the editor.
You should see a status message "crontab: installing new crontab"
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Downloads never finalized, stuck in downloads folder

To fully diagnose this problem, I will start from the beginning I noticed something a bit 'off' about iTunes.
i was browsing the iTunes Store, looking for a good mix of music to buy, adding to the Wish List, blah blah blah. I left the computer running for a few hours while I was away, then came back to complete the process.
When I came back, I noticed that whenever I would load a page, the 'Accessing iTunes Store' progress bar would not fill up all the way. It would reach about 85% across, then just stop. I had no problem with it as I was able to browse the pages just fine, but it wouldn't go away. I then proceeded to purchase the music.
After the first 2 finished downloading, I went to start playing them. They showed up in the Music library, no errors or anything, but nothing happened when I double-clicked on the song. iTunes didn't even crash. I went to the song info, looked at the location, and saw it was in <iTunes Media Folder>\Downloads\Artist - Album.tmp\download.m4a
I went to the downloads folder, and both songs were there, each with their own directory. There was also a list.plist file in Downloads. I immediately paused all the downloads, quit iTunes, relaunched it, and tried again. The songs were still behaving the same, but when I continued the downloads, they finalized and went to their proper directories (<iTunes Media Folder>\Music\Artist\Album\Song.m4a). The first two just would not play. So I tried moving the downloads folder to the desktop so they wouldn't be lost, removed the songs from the library (they now had the little gray exclamation point), and checked available downloads. Nothing. They weren't even in the Purchases list.
I go to play the files with QuickTime, and it gives me:
Error -2002: a bad public movie atom was found in the movie (download.m4a)
If you (an Apple tech) check my Apple ID, it's the last purchase I made. 2 albums and 3 other songs.
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, iTunes 10.5.0.142
All I want to know is how to get the songs back into the library without having to pay for them again. You can tell me in computer jargon, I'm very good with them.

Never mind, problem solved.
If you are having this problem, I suggest you go to your receipt that got emailed to you, click on 'report a problem', and follow the steps. State simply what happened: download failed, corrupt file. The support team answers very promptly.

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Dock Downloads Folder Drag & Drop Crashes Finder

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.part files in download folder but no downloaded file

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Recd following error when attempt to open ebook using ADE 4.0 : "Unable to Download. Error getting License. License Server Communication Problem: E_LIC_LICENSE_SIGN_ERROR" iMac 10.8.5 Chrome Version 37.0.2062.124

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Charles P.: Is there anything else I can assist you with today?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2384
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