> On Oct 21, 2014, at 17:20 , Quincey Morris > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2014, at 16:52 , Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I click "Install" in the App Store app, it creates >> /Applications/Xcode.appdownload, puts 377 kb - 382 kb, then just stalls. The >> App Store app never shows it as downloading, but the button says >> "Installing." I noticed this, decided to restart my Mac and throw away the >> other Xcode and start over, but the behavior repeated itself. > > If the MAS app has previously downloaded an app in the background, it never > shows it as downloading but the button says “Installing”. Sounds like what > just happened to you. > > When installing a previously downloaded app, the MAS app is going to have to > do about the same amount of work as copying the installed app from one place > on the disk to another. (Obviously it’s decompressing, etc, too, but the time > is going to be commensurate). Since the decompressed Xcode is about 5.5GB, > this is going to take a few minutes, during which time nothing will appear to > be happening in the MAS app. > >> Oh, charming. As I was typing this, the file changed to "Xcode.app", and I >> can launch it, and it has the right build number, but App Store in the >> search results still says "Installing," and on the app page still says >> "Install.” > > At some point the MAS store app has to tell the server that you did install > it. This is going to happen *after* the file changes to “Xcode.app”, but > today (now that the Xcode store download is there) talking to the server > might be really slow. > > So, it looks like you rebooted while your Mac was in the middle of doing what > you asked it do, then you came and swore at the list. Cool. > > I apologize for sounding harsh (again), if I do (again), but this list isn’t > your therapist’s couch.
I think I'm completely justified in assuming the worst, given the dismal quality of Apple's releases lately. It's hardly my fault if Apple is going to conduct a long-running operation without feedback. The file size of the ".appdownload" didn't change at all during that time. What am I supposed to think? When I've tried reasonable remediation measures, I look to other resources to see if there's an answer. That's what I did here. I didn't have time to waste wandering around the building to see if it would someday fix itself; I emailed the list. -- Rick Mann [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
