At the beginning of a disk image file is the sum of all the bits in that file. The program will then checksum to see if the sum is what is really in the image. If it is off, it reports 'invalid checksum'
If you downloaded it from a website, it likely was corrupted during download, and I would suggest trying to download it again. If you downloaded it from a peer to peer network, the file may be a fake.
You maybe able to skip the check sum at your own risk:
Checksums are there to protect you.
To enable skipping of the checksum verification to speed up mounting. So use the following (in Terminal):
*defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify true*
This will turn off disk image verification system-wide, regardless of what client has requested the mount (e.g. Finder or Safari or Disk Utility or DiskImageMounter.app).
Message was edited by: leroydouglas
If you downloaded it from a website, it likely was corrupted during download, and I would suggest trying to download it again. If you downloaded it from a peer to peer network, the file may be a fake.
You maybe able to skip the check sum at your own risk:
Checksums are there to protect you.
To enable skipping of the checksum verification to speed up mounting. So use the following (in Terminal):
*defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify true*
This will turn off disk image verification system-wide, regardless of what client has requested the mount (e.g. Finder or Safari or Disk Utility or DiskImageMounter.app).
Message was edited by: leroydouglas
Mac Dmg Invalid Checksum Error
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Nov 9, 2010 1:56 PM
Like any other type of file, DMG files can become corrupted under various circumstances, and a corrupted disk image can cause problems on your Mac OS X volume. Invalid Checksum When files are transferred from computer to computer via the internet or any other means, errors can occur. I just downloaded MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg as a part of my brand new Office365 subscription (yearly). Went to install it and it said 'invalid checksum' and won't install. How do I fix this? I am on a Macbook Pro with the latest OS.
Is there a terminal command that returns what checksum method is used for a file? It would be nice to have an Automator script that would look at the file and return a checksum for the less than tech savy users. AI could start a whole series of these scripts..
I just downloaded MicrosoftOffice2011.dmg as a part of my brand new Office365 subscription (yearly). Went to install it and it said 'invalid checksum' and won't install. How do I fix this? I am on a Macbook Pro with the latest OS. The 11.0.1 IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.dmg file has the MD5 checksum of 756feb825d5ebd6eebbee6 and the size of 184.850.010 bytes.
You can use any checksum for a file. What they do is convert the data stored in the file into a short code using an algorithm. If there are small changes to the file then the result should change a lot.Say that your binary data was 011100 and you wanted to check it was accurate, you could do something like add all the positions of the 1s so 2+3+4 = 9 and that would be the verification. If the data got corrupted to 011110, it would be 2+3+4+5 = 14 so one bit changes but you get a larger change in the checksum.
The different algorithms are just selected based on probabilities of duplicate checksums and performance. Because they have to check the whole file, some checksums can take a while to run. Whatever company that put the file up will say which checksum method they are using and then they write what the result would be. You would then use the same method and check if you get the same result.
You can make a shell alias to do all the checksums in one go e.g open your bash profile with: open ~/.bash_profile, paste in:
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function checksumfunc(){
openssl sha1 '$1'; openssl dgst -sha256 '$1'; openssl md5 '$1';
}
alias checksum='checksumfunc'
openssl sha1 '$1'; openssl dgst -sha256 '$1'; openssl md5 '$1';
}
alias checksum='checksumfunc'
Then you just type checksum and drag a file in to get the results and that saves remembering the command for each but you'd only ever be checking a single value and it's not likely something you'll ever do anyway. The system should really handle this for you. Maybe this is something Apple can setup where developers can enter a checksum online against a product version and when the OS tries to run a binary, it checks the product and version to see if the checksum matches the one the developer put in Apple's database.
Really this goes back to the problem of executables having write permissions to all user-account files on a system by default when they shouldn't. Applications should only have read and create permissions for files not created by them until the user explicitly allows them to overwrite or delete files. Even when apps have permissions (possibly via social engineering), the system should warn about mass changes to files e.g a task is run that does deletion or encryption and the system checks what the target size is, it can just warn that a lot of files will be impacted and what will happen to them and ask if the user wants to proceed.