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Where does App Store download files to?

I ran the Updates feature in the App Store on my iMac today, and it reported both a delta (incremental) update to Mountain Liion to 10.8.1, and a full download of the 10.8.1 Combo (4.37GB). After running the delta update, I decided to download the full Combo version, just in case I ever needed to do a full reinstall. When the download finished, it popped up a window to run that installer, but I cancelled it since I didn't need it to run now. However, after quitting the installer, I wanted to add the Combo download to my MacOS X Updates folder on a backup drive, however, I couldn't find the file. Where does the App Store download its files to? I couldn't find a setting in either the App Store application, or the System Preferences to identify its default download location.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Aug 23, 2012 1:55 PM

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Kivanc Muslu

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Posted on Aug 23, 2012 10:38 PM

By default for most of the time it should be /Applications folder. However, with your case, I think the combo update should not even be available (since you already had the OS and only needed the delta update), so it might be different. Just give it a try.