Skype says: mounting failed
Never having had a problem downloading Skype before, I’m faced with an unusual problem, and have no solution. With getting my MacBook Air, I’ve been trying for weeks to download Skype (usually via mobile broadband, or via Wifi hotspots) and I’ve been failing. I get the usual “mounting failed” error. Annoying.
I filed a bug with Skype, and I have no idea if they’ll look into fixing it. My other option is to search thru my backups from my other Macs and look for a .dmg. All in all, pain
OS X can’t recognise it at all. For reference, the md5sum is: MD5 (Skype_2.7.0.330.dmg) = dfe1cb2286eccc906d642fca1325fef2.

July 7th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Might be worth seeing if dmg2iso can open it, or at least, produce a better error message.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
ive got the dmg here - how do i get it to you? u got a ftp site??
July 8th, 2008 at 3:07 am
proper MD5: 31d7a1371aa701aafeaa0747777f6236
file size: 36156455
July 14th, 2008 at 1:14 am
This seems to have been fixed, so all is well now…
July 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I’m having the same problem. You said the problem is fixed, but I’m still having it. What did you do to fix it???
July 15th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Alethea,
I just downloaded it, and now it seems to have a sane md5 and all seems to work. I don’t know if the downloads are broken again…
July 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Still not working for me. It starts downloading, get’s 1 or 2 MB into the download, and then quits, saying “mounting failed”.
???