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1. FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC MAC OS
2. FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC INSTALL
3. FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC UPGRADE
4. FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC FULL
5. FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC SOFTWARE

FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC UPGRADE

I viewed my Console when attempting to upgrade iPhoto and saw that it was attempting to access a PKG file called:įrom a Console system message entry that looked like:Ģ6/06/13 12:34:39.041 PM App Store: PKDistributionController: Found asset mzpsxxxx03867858650xxxx.pkg on disk for item 4xxxxxx1 - Size 2xxxxxx2

FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC INSTALL

The update refused to install even after I uninstalled iPhoto and asked it to reinstall.

įor instance, I had a problem with my Internet connection and received a corrupted PKG for my iPhoto 9.4.3 update. I know it's been a while, however, there is better information available about App Store download locations, this information should be handled very carefully as you'll be viewing areas of your filesystem that are not considered ‘end-user friendly’.

IT'S MORE LIKELY THAT THIS INFORMATION WILL HELP YOU HELP A TECHNICIAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM THAN FIXING IT YOURSELF WITHOUT A KNOWLEDGE OF BSD AND UNIX. I know that Apple prefers we don't look at our filesystems this way, however, it has been maintained in many court decisions that the contents of our hard drives are ours to do with as we please. So I checked my Time Machine backup, turned off Time Machine and had a poke around on my disk.

FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC SOFTWARE

If I was going to have to do that, which would take days as I use a lot of large proprietary software implementations such as Adobe Creative Suite which would also have to be deactivated, reinstalled and reactivated, I decided to try to fix it myself.

FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC MAC OS

It was suggested I may need to reinstall Mac OS entirely. I wanted this information because I had a problem upgrading iPhoto to 9.4.3 and not even the Genious Bar™ was able to make it update. I have Safari set to download to the Desktop just so I don't have that problem, so I can manually consolidate where I save thse files. Which brings me back to my core question, where/how do we set the default location for saving downloads from the AppStore? There is no Preferences section in the app, and nothing I can find in System Preferences to change this location. However, the bottom line is that THAT Combo was NOT dated today, even though the Get Info on the file said it was changed TODAY. I had created this folder to manually save/manage installers, so I honestly don't remember if this huge file was simply my original Mountain Lion Combo (10.8.0) installer, but I seem to think it's been more than a week since I installed Mountain Lion. I searched Spotlight and found a file this size named Install Mountain Lion on my external drive in my Software/Apple Software folder with an update date of (last week), but nothing with this name dated today. It wasn't in the /Applications folder, nor in the Downloads folder. After the Combo finished downloading, the installer automatically started, which I cancelled, since I was already running 10.8.1. This time it listed ONLY the Combo (4.37GB) updater, so I downloaded it as well, planning to just save it for some future emergency. I ran the delta update to 10.8.1, restarted the iMac, then ran the App Store/Updates again.

When I checked initially for updates, the App Store/Updates identified both the delta update AND the Combo updater. Yes, most new installs are placed in the /Applications folder, and that was the first place I checked. Note: You could do those last two steps in finder, but if you're going to play hacker games, use hacker commands. (The command above copies it to the dekstop as MyApp.pkg) Once the download is complete, and the installer starts up, copy it out of the directory to someplace useful:Ĭp dge2261667518591136895.pkg ~/Desktop/MyApp.pkg This is probably more so that the file name is unique and there are no version / naming conflicts than any nefarious obfuscation.

FIND DOWNLOAD FILE ON MAC FULL

The last column is the full path to the package it is currently downloading. From terminal, execute the following command: lsof | grep -i pkg