[MacTUG] Downloading macOS Sierra from the Mac App Store | Der Flounder

[Lawrence Folland]

This makes me wonder - can we mirror the MacApp Store - at least for OS'es?  This would do two things:
1) ensure we have ongoing access to needed files
2) allow us to download from a local source, thereby saving on external bandwidth and speeding up that access locally.

We do this for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions plus other software, see:
https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Mirror
https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/

Maybe MacOS files could be included?

Lawrence


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:mactug-
> bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Donald Duff-McCracken
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 9:28 AM
> To: mactug <mactug at lists.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [MacTUG] Downloading macOS Sierra from the Mac App Store |
> Der Flounder
> 
> Super valuable (as your tips usually are)!
> 
> I needed it a while ago and had a hard time getting it – fortunately Glenn had
> squirreled it away (as I thought I had). If you don’t have a copy of Sierra I
> suggest you grab it soon as I am sure that page will not be there forever. (And
> while you are at it archive High Sierra as you know it will be obsolete – and
> unavailable – before you know it!)
> 
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> On 2017-11-13, 9:18 AM, "mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca on behalf of
> m3griffi" <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca on behalf of
> m3griffi at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
>     """
>     Now that macOS High Sierra has been released, it’s become more difficult
>     to access the macOS Sierra installer in the Mac App Store (MAS) for
>     those who still need it.
> 
>     Previous versions of OS X and Mac OS X which were purchased by an Apple
>     ID will appear in the MAS’s Purchased list for that Apple ID, but macOS
>     Sierra is an exception because it did not need to be purchased using an
>     Apple ID.
> 
>     Fortunately, Sierra has not been removed from the MAS and it is still
>     available for download. Apple has a KBase article, available via the
>     link below, which shows how to access the macOS Sierra page in the Mac
>     App Store:
> 
>     https://support.apple.com/HT208202
> 
>     To access the macOS Sierra page directly, please click on the link below:
> 
>     https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?ls=1&mt=12
> 
>     That link should open the MAS and take you to the macOS Sierra download
>     page.
> 
>     https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/downloading-macos-
> sierra-from-the-mac-app-store/
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