Any ideas?
I’ve tried again latered several times, wired and wireless network.
Sign out of the Mac App Store.
Reboot.
If that doesn’t work…
Here’s a script that I’ve used to delete the Mac App Store cache files before.
#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f
# Purpose: Delete the cache of the Mac App Store app
#
# From: Timothy J. Luoma
# Mail: luomat at gmail dot com
# Date: 2016-04-09
NAME="$0:t:r"
if [ -e "$HOME/.path" ]
then
source "$HOME/.path"
else
PATH='/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin'
fi
## Don't run if app store app is running
pgrep -q 'App Store' && echo "$NAME: App Store.app running" && exit 0
sudo -v
for i in \
"/Library/Application Support/App Store" \
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/App Store" \
"$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist" \
"$HOME/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore"
do
if [ -e "$i" ]
then
if [ -w "$i" ]
then
rm -rfv "$i"
else
sudo rm -rfv "$i"
fi
else
echo "$NAME: $i does not exist"
fi
done
CACHE_DIR=${TMPDIR}../C/com.apple.appstore
CACHE_DIR="$CACHE_DIR:A"
if [[ ! -d "$CACHE_DIR" ]]
then
echo "$NAME: no directory found at '$CACHE_DIR'."
else
find "$CACHE_DIR" -type f -print -delete
fi
echo "
$NAME: You should reboot.
"
exit 0
#EOF
This happened to me on our 2013 iMac with Fusion drive. I determined that a ‘verify’ for Xcode was taking place in the background which is a new feature in Catalina. And due to the size of Xcode it was taking forever. I simply deleted Xcode and then it installed fine.
I have no idea if you have this scenario so just mentioning it as an option.
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Hi
a restart fixed it for me
Thanks to everyone who replied!