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

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

It is possible and easily doable but I have found it a bit of a pain. If you download everything it is really EVERYTHING. I remember doing it once and found that my drive was filling up with 1GB “combined updates” for really old OSes, updates for final cut pro 3 etc etc. I did a cocktail napkin calculation and realized for the 100 or so macs I look after that I would not really save much bandwidth


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Donald Duff-McCracken 
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
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On 2017-11-13, 9:52 AM, "Lawrence E Folland" <lawrence.folland at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

    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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    > Donald Duff-McCracken
    > Technical Services Manager
    > Mapping, Analysis & Design
    > Faculty of Environment
    > University of Waterloo
    > (519) 888-4567 x32151
    > https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people
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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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