Am 16.01.2014 um 22:25 schrieb Richard Talley <rich.tal...@gmail.com>:

> That was interesting.
> 
> Evidently Firefox had decided for me that it would take over handling the FTP 
> protocol. When I pasted 
> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.1/lyx-2.1.0beta2 into Safari, it opened 
> Firefox. I hadn't noticed before because I usually use a standalone FTP 
> client.
> 
> I used the RCDefaultApp preference pane 
> (http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/) to give FTP handling back to 
> Finder. Safari then turned the FTP handling over to Finder and I was then 
> able to connect as a guest and drag and drop the Mac dmg into my Downloads 
> folder. A little slow, over 10 minutes to download, but it worked.
> 
> Safari 6.1.1 on OS X 10.8.5.

Please note that, as I already wrote, the default Mac OS X behavior is to
open the Finder. This was apparently overridden when installing firefox.

Stephan

> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Uwe Ade <uwe....@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > me again. Sorry for the disagreeability. I have the problem with safari und
> > Pathfinder on my mac. The Download doesn’t work. As I read the tip from
> > Anders  i installed Firefox and the download and the installation of lyx
> > works fine.
> >
> > In Future i will try to give more and clear descriptions.
> >
> > Thanks for the help an this Mailinglist. For me it´s great!!
> 
> Thanks for following up and thanks to Anders for the solultion.
> 
> Glad you got it working!
> 
> It would be nice if another Mac user could test using Safari.
> 
> Scott
> 

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