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Success: I managed to download both the iso and md5 files no problem, using the command line ftp. So it looks as if the problem lies with the OS X Finder and its integration with ftp, as implied in the Apple support forum that I linked to previously.

For full results see below. I'm not sure why the ...

As already noted, this download is not for my use, but is for a colleague, who runs WinXP.
I already use TeXShop on my MacBook, which works fine for me.

Addendum - looks like it may be an OS X problem - so much for OS X being the perfect OS

See here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 0&tstart=0

I have recently persuaded a colleague to move on to LaTeX, from Word. Since he runs under WinXP, it seemed sensible to use proTeXt, as the recommended solution for this environment. I therefore went to the ProTeXt site to try and download one of the 'full' distros (e.g. the .iso). My colleague is ...

:o you have to laugh really -no, honest!

I completely uninstalled TeXShop, by following joseph's advice to get rid of the remaining vestiges.

Installed a new install of the 2009 version, and tested it before making any changes and, ta-da!
it worked (without changes).

I guess this must be because ...

OK, it still failed, despite my best efforts to completely remove all previous traces of TeXShop - deleting the app from /Applications, deleting the TeX folder from /Library and deleting the TeXShop folder from ~/Library. Curiously, despite all this, it still retained my list of previously accessed ...

Thanks for the input - although this sounds very close to what joseph suggested earlier, which didn't work for me.

Since the two of you are now suggesting this solution I'll give it another try - although this time I'll completely remove my current TeXShop installation, just in case there is any ...

Hi there to anybody who is sufficiently curious to want to read about me.

What can say? Well, I started programming at school, about 35 years ago. Went on to do a degree in Comp Sci, where we started off using punched cards, and only used terminals towards the end of the course - and this was at ...

You must think me very dense, for which I can only apologise. I really am a LaTeX newbie and a lot of this is a mystery to me.

I have now modified my 'LaTeX' setting on the Typesetting panel to ' latex --shell-escape --synctex=1 ', which seems to be what you are recommending, along with setting the ...

Sadly, this fix didn't work for me. I restored my setting to their original value and applied your change, with the following result on a trivial pstricks input file, that processed fine with the previous settings.

This is a real shame, since your config change was the just sort of thing I was ...