after upgrading my Mac to Yosemite I've had trouble downloading XCode 6.1
Every time I tried I got an error saying:
This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.
I have tried again later, for a couple days, with no luck.
I have found this Apple forum post really helpful, but I did not want to download the third party tools.
I have solved the problem by searching for XCode:
sudo find / -name *XCode*
Which returned:
/private/var/folders/zn/ltz89cf17wj09s3bz6rnrwyc0000gn/C/com.apple.DeveloperTools/5.0.2-5A3005/Xcode/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
/private/var/folders/zn/ltz89cf17wj09s3bz6rnrwyc0000gn/C/com.apple.DeveloperTools/5.1-5B130a/Xcode/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
/private/var/folders/zn/ltz89cf17wj09s3bz6rnrwyc0000gn/C/com.apple.DeveloperTools/5.1.1-5B1008/Xcode/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/C/com.apple.DeveloperTools/5.0.2-5A3005/Xcode/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/C/com.apple.DeveloperTools/5.1-5B130a/Xcode/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/C/com.apple.DeveloperTools/5.1.1-5B1008/Xcode/CachedSpecifications-xcodebuild
By renaming all of the com.apple.DeveloperTools
folders/files above to aaacom.apple.DeveloperTools
I have managed to get my App Store to download the new XCode.
What I wanted to ask was, has Yosemite changed the way that the Mac cache works?
I ask this because I noticed that some people had not managed to fix the issue by removing the usually recommended folder named com.apple.appstore
. I can't say if this would/would not work since this is the first thing I tried so I'm asking if the Mac cache has changed, and if so in what way?
Edit 1:
I have only now noticed the really useful command that was posted by Elliott Slaughter in the same thread which is a slightly more general cache deletion than my command:
rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/com.apple.appstore"
Where on my machine:
...$ echo $(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)
/var/folders/zn/ltz89cf17wj09s3bz6rnrwyc0000gn/C/
Edit 2:
So my assumption is that deleting com.apple.appstore
wouldn't work because XCode seems to be referenced in the com.apple.DeveloperTools
folders. Am I right?