Xcode 6.1 unavaliable

Downloading the individual version from dev center: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=Xcode

Worked like a charm for me. 🙂

Thanks Elliott

Here I solved by going to the "App Store" > "Store" > "Check for Unfinished Downloads ..."

The problem is that it downloaded and re-downloaded some times. But at the end it got successfully updated.

Regards,

Thanks !

its the best method !

Even after clearing the cache by running the command from Elliott Slaughter as well as removing the the com.apple.appstore folder manually using instructions from this site: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20121012020512148 it still didn't work from the app store. I'm downloading it manually.

That command [rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/com.apple.appstore"] did not work for me (macbook air, just after upgrading to Yosemite). It appeared to run ok, but the download still just span it's wheels and nothing was coming through. However when I ran Disk utility to repair the volume and then did a permissions cleanup, the download appeared to work. by "appeared" I mean it's downloading as I write. I presume that means it will install ok when it's finished... only 54 minutes to go ...

(Of course, there's always the chance your command line worked, in combination with what I did with the disk utility.)

I had this problem and tried various ways to resolve it, and eventually found the "Check for Unfinished Downloads..." option mentioned above. I can affirm that using it resumed the download, the Paused icon in my Launchpad went away and I am no longer being advised there is an available Xcode update.

The solution above worked for me

Hi BadlandZ,

I encountered the same problem before and I was able to solve the problem.

You need to stop the update of the XCode 6.1 and in order to stop the download, go to the Launchpad and click the Xcode icon for 2 seconds and the "x" button will appear and click the x button. (don't worry, the application will not be deleted.)

After clicking the x button go to the app store and update the xcode.

Hope this works.

Hi!

Many thanks for this! I had downloaded Xcode directly as suggested by someone and it was just fine. But this "paused" download was annoying and I did not know what to do. I did as you suggested and lo and behold the "paused" went away and the Xcode icon appeared with all the stars shining! Thank you so much.

Hi, I am glad i was able to help you. Cheers!

I can confirm this as the only solution that worked for me. I tried manually cleaning out various bits of cache and removing the xcode app and anything I could find to do with it, but without success. Downloading YCC and running the deep-clean on the caches worked for me, I may even register it 🙂

+1 for check unfinished downloads. Cheers

Elliot's command [rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/com.apple.appstore"] worked for me, if it doesn't run it as sudo i.e sudo rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/com.apple.appstore". Thanks Bud!

The following worked fine for me after receiving the same error for 2 months:

1. Open App Store application
2. Log in
3. Click on Store on the menu bar
4. Click "Check for Unfinished Downloads..."

The application will restore applications for you.

Hope it works

I just managed to fix this without any third party stuff or manual downloading. I think people are right that, somehow, the download of Xcode got stalled and OS X kept it flagged as being downloaded. What I did was go into LaunchPad (the rocket ship app icon in the Dock) and find one of the apps that has no icon and is labeled "Paused." Hold down the Option key to make them all wiggle and then click the X to delete the permanently paused download. They go back to the App Store and try Updating it again. For me, it didn't show the progress bar for the download in the App Store initially. I had to go back into LaunchPad and see that it was downloading. Then navigating around the App Store and back to the Updates tab made the download progress appear.