07-21-2011, 06:31 PM

Yesterday I started my download when I got home about 5PM PST. It went on to about the midway point by 10PM and stayed there. I left it overnight and it probably only moved about another 5% if that. Let it run all morning through about 1PM and still not result.

That's a long time, so I canceled the download after a pause, rebooted and tried it again. It wouldn't move. Rebooted again and logged in and now I keep getting the message shown on the screen shot.

I contacted the App Store support with this screenshot and told them I was also starting to get an internal error: 505 and they said they would simply refund my money and that I should try again later. I replied stating that this should be fixed as I'm not claiming a refund, but rather that the download works.

Are any of you guys experiencing problems with this? I'm noticing a growing thread at the Apple community: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15675535#15675535

I'd appreciate any feedback as I'm hoping to get this thing up and running before the week is out.

Thanks!

07-21-2011, 06:40 PM

It sounds like the Apple servers are beginning to bend under the stress of all the download hits they're getting. And if you have a slow connection that will make matters worse. I downloaded my copy yesterday early in the morning as soon as it was available and it took like 15 to 20 minutes on a fast FIOS connection. I would do as the Apple rep advised and wait a few days until the downloads slow down.

07-21-2011, 10:20 PM

chscag, thanks for your reply. I figured it might be bottle-necking due to the amount of downloads. I'm on a DSL connection that's rather fast and letting it run for a day and a night seemed much too long. The rep did get back to me saying they had a download issue that has been resolved. I'm about to make another attempt at downloading this again.

Thanks!