troubleshooting

AIR Installation Error

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
at 11:55pm

I just tried to install Twhirl on my iMac running 10.5.3 and got this error: "The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author. Has anyone found a way to get around or fix this?

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