[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" nickname="joey" subject="comment 1" date="2013-03-19T17:19:32Z" content=""" What version of OSX is this? From what url did you download the dmg? Have you run \"runshell\" to get the shell you're using git-annex in? What happens if you run sha512sum on the file yourself? The SHA512 backend is not the default backend used by git-annex. Is the default SHA256 backend working? """]]