![]() ![]() One of Apple’s perpetual blindspots is that not everyone has access to fast and unlimited Internet access. Apple used to post ‘combo updaters’ to their website, but they have also ceased to do that. I am not even sure that it is possible to do what you are trying to do. Unfortunately, the bad news is that softwareupdate is no longer supported by Apple for system updates in Big Sur. For years we lived behind a slow satellite connection which had a quota of 20GB per month. I wonder if at this point they're a package contents or similar of an app.ĭoes anyone know where the update packages are saved and how to retrieve them?įirst of all, I can very much empathize with this situation. I've had a bit of a sniff around in other places but cannot find anything. ![]() I found this link ( ) which talks about enabling a debug menu for the App Store - which will then open up the downloads folder, however that seems to have been removed. ![]() (It is also empty if I disable SIP using the csrutil in recovery mode.) I have seen suggestions elsewhere for /Library/Updates but when I use Go To Folder, this only has an ist and ist in it. pkg file (or similar) that can be retrieved before installing, however I cannot find it. I have used softwareupdate -d -a to download the update: Software Update Tool Whenever a new version of macOS comes out we can download the installer once and then reuse it on every machine, but now I'm trying to simplify the update process since, e.g., 11.3.1 which came out recently is 5.7gb and I would like to avoid downloading it 10 times as we have a slow and also metered Internet connection. We run a small office with approx 10 Macs all running Big Sur. ![]()
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