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I had to delete xcode because an update through the app store just didn't work. It had been in an "updating" state for over a week, I had given the machine full
by mort96 4y ago
I had to delete xcode because an update through the app store just didn't work. It had been in an "updating" state for over a week, I had given the machine full working days worth of continuous on-time, and eventually I tried to cancel the update which also didn't work. The only recourse was to `sudo rm -rf /Applications/Xcode.app`.
Not the reason OP is deleting Xcode, but you'd be surprised at how buggy a lot of stuff involving Xcode can be.
- oefrha 4y agoApp Store Xcode updates always take forever for god knows why. It’s almost as if there’s some nonlinear behavior in softwareupdated and co. that’s hit by Xcode with its gazillion little files. Therefore I update Xcode by downloading the .xip from developer.apple.com/downloads.
- saagarjha 4y agoI haven't looked into this closely but I think it first tries to validate the bundle and then decompresses to disk very slowly