{"id":852,"date":"2008-07-07T06:07:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2008-07-07T06:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:07:26","slug":"skype-says-mounting-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/07\/skype-says-mounting-failed","title":{"rendered":"Skype says: mounting failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never having had a problem downloading Skype before, I&#8217;m faced with an unusual problem, and have no solution. With getting my MacBook Air, I&#8217;ve been trying for weeks to download Skype (usually via mobile broadband, or via Wifi hotspots) and I&#8217;ve been failing. I get the usual &#8220;mounting failed&#8221; error. Annoying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I filed a bug with Skype, and I have no idea if they&#8217;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<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a title=\"mounting failed: skype by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2645028767\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3259\/2645028767_657c49f264_o.jpg?resize=334%2C83\" alt=\"mounting failed: skype\" width=\"334\" height=\"83\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mounting failed<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OS X can&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2645896284\/\">recognise<\/a> it at all. For reference, the md5sum is: <tt>MD5 (Skype_2.7.0.330.dmg) = dfe1cb2286eccc906d642fca1325fef2<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Skype%20says%3A%20mounting%20failed&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F07%2Fskype-says-mounting-failed&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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With getting my MacBook Air, I&#8217;ve been trying for weeks to download Skype (usually via mobile broadband, or via Wifi hotspots) and I&#8217;ve been failing. I get the usual &#8220;mounting failed&#8221; error. Annoying. 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I figured I'd get a new prepaid number to boot. Rather than reviewing it the moment I got it, I decided to play with it for a little while, and formulate opinions on the phone. Generally, I like it,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":689,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/05\/skype-video-and-a-logitech-webcam","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":1},"title":"Skype Video, and a Logitech webcam","date":"5\/1\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Was hardware shopping yesterday, and couldn't resist getting myself a webcam, now that Skype 2.0 on Linux supports it (okay, its beta, but it works). Picked up a Logitech QuickCam Family for RM65. 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I proceeded to move to my Mac OS X powered laptop, that are all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":443,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/15\/skype-25-beta-first-impressions","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":3},"title":"Skype 2.5 Beta: First Impressions","date":"15\/11\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Skype 2.5 Beta is out for Mac OS X. Bottom line is, I'm rather excited and hope that we'll see more of this in Linux land (webcam support, SMS). I eagerly tried out the SMS feature, which is something I've longed for. It costs 0.071 Euros to send a message\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":478,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/02\/peeved-about-some-software","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":4},"title":"Peeved about some software","date":"2\/3\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Its the end of another month, maybe I'm entitled to be a little peeved?Thunderbird. In Linux, its Edit -> Account Settings. On Windows and OS X, its Tools -> Account Settings. On OS X, its Thunderbird -> Preferences, on Linux is Edit -> Preferences. 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