Q: iBooks that Won't Download or Update
I've had good luck with iBooks. I use it to organize a fair number of game books on my laptop, and I've started picking up some other books which go into iBooks. And some of those are even provided by Apple. But those are the ones I'm having trouble with.
Specifically, the Swift Programming Language series. They're updated on my phone (Swift 2.1), but on my Mac they show as the Swift 2 Edition, even when it looks like I'm downloading the 2.1 edition at first. For what it's worth, The Swift Programming Language shows the 2.1 Edition in the title bar. But Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C consistently fails to download.
What do I have to manually clear or delete to make these download and show up correctly?
MacBook Pro (17-inch 2.4 GHz), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Posted on Oct 23, 2015 12:10 PM
Please read this whole message before doing anything.
Back up all data.
Quit iBooks if it's running. Test after taking each of the following steps that you haven't already taken. Stop when the problem is resolved. Quit iBooks again before going on to the next step.
Step 1
Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following item, if it exists, to the Trash:
Cookies/com.apple.ibooks.cookies
Step 2
Delete this item in the same way:
Preferences/com.apple.ibooks.plist
Step 3
Delete this item:
Containers/com.apple.iBooksX
and move this one to the Desktop:
Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService
Restart the computer. To log out and log back in is not enough—you must restart.
When you launch iBooks, you'll be prompted to reset the library. Confirm. The library will be empty. Rebuild it by downloading your purchases from the iBooks Store and importing any other content you added. You may find the added content in the folder named "com.apple.BKAgentService" that you moved to the Desktop.
Posted on Oct 23, 2015 7:18 PM