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Originally Posted by knc1
Yup - your Mac is destroying the special format archive.
Open a terminal and use wget (or curl) to download the archive, don't let the Mac file manager get hold of it.
What is happening:
There is such a thing as a 'tar bomb' which when opened would over-write system programs because it contains full pathnames, starting with the root '/'.
So a lot of "user friendly" consumer software converts any archive like that to a 'safe' version (without the leading '/').
Only thing is -
The jailbreak archive IS a "tar bomb" - it is SUPPOSED to be a "tar bomb" - that is critical to how it does its job.
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That was it! What a perfect shit storm tonight. I normally don't use Safari but I was having issues with what i thought was Chrome and turns out my in-laws Wifi was garbage. After I moved closer to the Wifi range, I kept using Safari which had the option of "Open Safe Files after Downloading" Turned that off, re-did everything and all good to go!
Do I need to do the MRPI or KUAL stuff I've been reading about?