On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:44 AM, Roland King wrote: > >> On 30 Sep 2015, at 16:26, Quincey Morris >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sep 30, 2015, at 01:10 , Dave <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Is anyone else seeing this? How do I get the update? >> >> Yup, it’s downloading. Just leave it to do its thing for a couple of hours, >> and eventually you should have Xcode 7.0.1 in Applications. >> >> I don’t know why it’s not showing the correct download status**. Possibly >> this is one of the few times (maybe even the only time ever, so far) where >> it’s actually updating your existing app with a delta, instead of >> downloading an entire new version. >> >> >> ** Except for the obvious reason, that the Mac App Store app is the worst, >> slowest, stupidest and most misleading app that Apple ever wrote. > > I’m with ‘**’ at the bottom as regards the GUI showing what the App Store is > doing. it appears to me that the actual download and install daemons are > entirely different processes and the GUI tries to read what’s going on from > them and stay up-to-date, and it just doesn’t do it very well. > > I continue to recommend not updating Xcode from the app store but just > downloading it directly from the link (under other downloads) and installing > from there. It’s fast and you can tell what’s going on.
FWIW, if at all possible, I never download anything from the app store and always download from the website. It's much easier to keep the installer for later use if I want. Annoying download issues like the one that started this thread are much less likely to be present. I know where the file is going to be - in the Downloads folder.
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