One of these download managers may be helpful: https://www.macheat.com/the-5-best-download-managers-for-mac/
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 3, 2020, at 9:11 AM, Richmond via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Well, your "just a typo" meant I downloaded 12.2 beta 2. So, now you'll just > have to wait while I download 11.5. > > Obviously you entirely missed the point of my previous message. > > In about 1994 I downloaded a file that took up 3 MB on a computer in the SIUC > EFL computer lab, and, obviously, could > not fit it on a floppy disk to transfer to my LC 475 at home. So I used > Stuffit to compress it and chop it up into > several .sit files and then copy those onto about 5 floppy disks . . . I > learnt my lesson: so, just as soon as xCode 11.5 (don't you dare say that was > another typo) has downloaded I will try to chop it up (and it is 7.5 GB) into > about 30 zip files at 256 MB, > and work out how to make them accessible to you. > > Richmond. > >> On 3.10.20 14:58, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: >> Sorry if I said Xcode 15 - just a typo, it’s actually 11.5. But the point >> remains the same. As I have said before, it seems that Apple are offering >> files as big as the Library of Babel for no logical reason. Stephen’s idea >> that they expect you to have a fibre connection is probably true, but odd >> considering that there are so many places in the world not yet offering high >> speed internet. >> >> I didn’t bother to explain that in my tiny French village, the new >> state-sponsored optical fibre goes straight past my house, but sadly on the >> wrong side of the road! I have contracted with the necessary ISP, different >> from the one I’m using now, but after an abortive visit by a very nice >> technician who announced that she couldn’t solve the problem herself, they >> have outsourced the link from one side of the street to the other to an >> external contractor, with the result that the original August installation >> date has been pushed out to November! I have even tried to organise a bit of >> private work to get the cable across but the ISP will not play ball. >> >> In practical terms, I will either hang over my Mac for a few more hours or >> take up the sensible suggestion of getting someone else with true broadband >> to do the download for me. The point of my email though was to ask if there >> is a way of downloading a huge file by any other method than simply >> swallowing the whole elephant in one go - looks like there isn’t. >> >> Thanks all >> >> Graham >> >>>> On 3 Oct 2020, at 13:17, Richmond via use-livecode >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> Cripes! >>> >>> xCode 12.2. beta 2 takes up 10.5 GB of space . . . wonder what the bloat >>> is: Tim Cook's unwashed laundry? >>> >>> On 3.10.20 11:11, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: >>>> This is a question for people having to use XCode to generate iOS apps. I >>>> find from responses on this list that I now need Xcode 15 to have a chance >>>> of generating for iOS 14. I would ask Apple this quesiton, but I doubt if >>>> I would get a meaningful answer: >>>> >>>> I'm working deep in the French countryside with an ADSL connection - >>>> although I have enough bandwidth to stream TV programs, really long files >>>> are hard to download. Downloading Xcode - which is reported to be an >>>> 8.12GB file - at a speed of between 300 and 750 KB/sec is a nightmare. If >>>> the download speed drops below some unspecified limit, the download stops >>>> and has to be resumed in Safari, but that's not the worst of it. If I >>>> leave the download overnight, having got say 4 out of 8 Gb loaded, when >>>> look at the download folder in the morning, it only contains 14 bytes, >>>> necessitating a complete reload! There isn't even anything in the Trash. >>>> What's that about, and is there any way I can simply accumulate the >>>> download bit by bit until it's all finished? >>>> >>>> If anyone has any hints, I’d be grateful. Otherwise it means spending some >>>> hours keep the download pot boiling and wrecking the rest of my day. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Graham >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
