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DrPuppet Author

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Trouble downloading Yosemite Recovery Update 1.0

Hi folks!

So, like many of you, judging from other postings here, I had great difficulty downloading and installing the 10.10.3 update via the App Store. It would just hang and hang and hang. However, downloading the Combo Updater directly from the Apple Support site took minutes.

Unfortunately, I have encountered the exact same problem with the Recovery Update. I have followed all the troubleshooting steps I could find (clearing the App Store cache and temporary items, repairing permissions, etc.). It still is taking hours and hours to download, and has just given up more than a few times. Indeed, it is listed numerous times in the "recently installed" section, and yet, it does not appear to have ever successfully installed.

To make it all a little more interesting, I tried downloading a game through the App Store, and it worked perfectly. So, this problem seems to be specific to Mac OS updates. Thus, I am starting to think that the App Store, in itself, is not the problem.

Furthermore, although perhaps unrelated, it took hours and hours to update my iPad and my iPhone to the latest iOS yesterday. Are there servers just overloaded? Is that possibly still a factor at this point today?

I cannot seem to find a direct download at the Apple site for the Recovery Update, nor can I figure out how to check if perhaps it DID install. It's clearly not as simple as checking the OS version, or the version of this or that application.

Has anyone else managed to get around this somehow?

Thank you!

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5

Posted on Apr 12, 2015 12:25 PM

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DrPuppet Author

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Posted on Apr 12, 2015 12:35 PM

"Are THEIR servers just overloaded?" My goodness.

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May 19, 2015 9:24 PM in response to DrPuppet

Possible solution. This worked for me.

Had been trying to install Yosemite Recovery Update 1.0 since it's release about a month ago on an iMac 27in mid 2011 w/maxed out memory.

I backed up any vital documents and settings I could as a precaution.

After a day of fighting the evil spinning beachball, don't know if related to the annoying un-installable YRU 1.0, decided as a last resort to reinstall my OS from (Command-R) Boot to OS X Recovery Mode.

Once there I ran a disk utility scan to make sure most permissions were ok and repaired.

Then did a System Install/Recovery. I don't remember all the steps, but there are posts elsewhere that describe how to reinstall just the OS via (Startup> Command-R) and leave your files/apps intact.

Wait a few hours for everything to be reset to factory OS settings. Dreading the possibility of having to re-install/register/re-update all my apps.

Restart all seems well for now. Go to my App Store Updates, no more YRU 1.0 update. Hallelujah!!!

Hope this helps everyone.

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Trouble downloading Yosemite Recovery Update 1.0