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Are you downloading over wifi? I had one access point that was somehow corrupting large downloads. Would try to mount, but then give some sort of error. Downloading from a wired hub worked.
 
Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility. Click on your Mac partition and click on "Repair Permissions"

This fixes odd bugs that happen in OS X.
 
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