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Reducing the weight of our footer. Related 3. Hot Network Questions. Sep 19, PM. Also note that the package has been given a random name: dge Once the download is complete, and the installer starts up, copy it out of the directory to someplace useful:.
Note: You could do those last two steps in finder, but if you're going to play hacker games, use hacker commands. Jun 17, PM. Page content loaded. Aug 23, PM. I ran the delta update to After the Combo finished downloading, the installer automatically started, which I cancelled, since I was already running I then looked around for this huge file.
There is no Preferences section in the app, and nothing I can find in System Preferences to change this location. I have Safari set to download to the Desktop just so I don't have that problem, so I can manually consolidate where I save thse files. Aug 24, AM. I wanted this information because I had a problem upgrading iPhoto to 9. It was suggested I may need to reinstall Mac OS entirely.
If I was going to have to do that, which would take days as I use a lot of large proprietary software implementations such as Adobe Creative Suite which would also have to be deactivated, reinstalled and reactivated, I decided to try to fix it myself. I know that Apple prefers we don't look at our filesystems this way, however, it has been maintained in many court decisions that the contents of our hard drives are ours to do with as we please.
The update refused to install even after I uninstalled iPhoto and asked it to reinstall. I viewed my Console when attempting to upgrade iPhoto and saw that it was attempting to access a PKG file called:. Upon searching my filesystem with a command in terminal, I discovered that the corrupted PKG file was located at:. This location is likely to be referenced by an internal OS database, and I basically just had to hope that removing the file would allow the database to clear the entry and force the PKG file to download again.
I deleted the file and restarted, asked iPhoto to install in the App Store, and everything went smoothly. After 20 or so other attempts, following Apple's support info, and asking colleagues, this was the ONLY solution to the problem without completely reinstalling Mac OS. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you!
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There you will find temp files stored by the Applications running. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Alexander Alexander 7, 5 5 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 79 79 bronze badges. Are you saying that there isn't a temp folder? Your answer would be refuted by this superuser. Allan Did you at all read my post? Alexander No need to be condescending towards new users.
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