App Store will not updates unless in safe mode
My 2017 m3 MacBook reports updates to 7 apps but it the App Store will not let me update them. When I click update I get different results:
- A circle starts to spin and never stops
- The spinning circle becomes the stop square but nothing is downloaded
- One time the download started on two of the apps but the thick line got to 75-85% full and then stopped; eventually this popped back to the "Update" button
I have read that people have had some success with opening the Keychain Access app, opening the Preferences panel, and resetting to default. I did this once in the past but it is not helping me now.
In fact, the only way I can get apps to update is in SafeMode (power down, hold Shift until the boot logo shows) and even then it's not running at full power: Xcode has been installing for hours, like got to 85% in a few minutes but the last 15% has been taking at least 2.5 hours. Maybe 3.
What other troubleshooting can I do? I did the Keychain dance already and rebooting to Safe Mode to update apps is not a viable experience; even Windows Store doesn't force that level of workaround.
I'm currently running macOS 11.1.
MacBook, macOS 11.1