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Q: Caching Server service still broke for Mac App Store apps

Well, I thought I had found a fix to my issue of downloads from the Mac App Store not caching.

WRONG!

 

I explicitly set the flags, via terminal commands, for AllowPersonalCaching and AllowSharedCaching

as the two flags were not present in config.plist for the service.  I then downloaded an app from the

Mac App Store on one of my Macs and it did actually get cached and served from the Caching Service.

 

Well, thought all was good, until today!

 

Saw that I had an update for 1Password app.  So downloaded it from the MacApp Store onto my iMac.

Then I thought, better check my MiniServer to see if the Caching Service was still working for MacApp

Store downloads.  Guess what?  NOT!!!  Did the update on two other Macs and the Mini Server and none

of them made the Caching Service budge!

 

However, all the Macs do see the caching server and a look in the log shows that the Caching Service is working

for local iCloud caching as when each Mac was powered up for the update I was attempting, there were multiple

PUTs and GETs for cloudd/xxx.xx.

 

Now, on top of that, the formerly working iTunes Store app update caching when downloading on the Macs is also

not working any more!!!  It did however, serve an app directly to an iDevice that I tested.

 

So, has the Caching Service just basically a useless consumption of memory now in terms of working with Mac? 

Has it turned into an iDevice only service?  I have tried re-starting the service, shutting down the Server app, rebooting

the server all to no avail.

 

All the functionality of the service was fine under Yosemite.  Somewhere along the line though, either El Capitan updates

or Server App updates have some how borked this service.

 

So, any clues or do people simply not use this service anymore and no one cares?

OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), Home Server

Posted on Apr 5, 2016 8:43 AM

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  • by woodmeister50,

    woodmeister50 woodmeister50 Jun 8, 2016 9:29 AM in response to woodmeister50
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    Jun 8, 2016 9:29 AM in response to woodmeister50

    I give up!!!!

     

    In terms of the MacApp Store, the Caching Service is just totally hosed and decides to

    work when it feels like (or not).  4 Macs, 4 MacApp Store updates on each (one of which

    was iTunes 12.4.1), only one was even recognized as requesting the updates and the apps

    requested by it were cached.  On the other three, including the server that had the Caching Service,

    it was like they did not even exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  By the way, the one that worked,

    was one that was totally ignored in the last post.  The service seems to just randomly chose

    who it will service and how much it will service.

     

    On two Macs, iOS updates were requested via iTunes and both machines were recognized

    and apps were served or cached, one of which was the server that the Caching Service is running on.

     

    Bottom line, the MacApp Store part of the service is just TOTALLY unreliable, flakey, works when it wants to,

    and choses randomly to do so!!!!!!!!

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