XCode 7.1 Slow to Install on MacBook

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Dygear OP

Created Oct ’15

Replies 37

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Computer: 12" MacBook 1.3 GHz (512 GB SSD).

OS: OSX 10.11.1

Tick Tock:

1825 Turned ok Macbook for first time.

1830 Installed Pages, Numbers, Keynote, OSX El Capitan Update. Setup FileVault for Full Disk Encrpytion.

1900 Went to meeting, used Notes.

2000 Came back from meeting.

2100 Installed Sublime Text 3, Homebrew (XCode Command Line Tools).

2200 Installed dot files, but did not compleate (took forever, ironic).

2300 Watched end of Mets game.

0000 Battery at 30% plugged into wall charger to recharge.

0006 Started Download of XCode 7.1 from App Store.

0010 Download Complete

0200 Started Writing this.

0210 Still not installed.

Now I understand that these CPUs are terminally limited, and that they will underclock under heavy sustained load. That effect seems to be compounded with charging the device while using it's CPU intensivly. But over 2 hours to extract and install XCode 7.1 is insane. Progress is being made on the install, the bar moves slowly, very slowly towards the right of the screen. But it's still pretty crazy that it's taking this long.

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ihatemacs OP

Nov ’21

The fact this problem of showing "3 minutes" when it clearly takes over an hour to install the tools (and still isn't fixed in XCode 13) is ridiculous. MacOS is starting to remind me of Windows ME with all of the bugs and garbage that get released 1/2 baked.

PittsburghMike OP

Mar ’22

I'll just point out that these days, installing always takes about 2 hours or more on my 2018 MacBook Pro. Xcode is just a pig.

That being said, if you have Microsoft Defender running, all bets are off. I always have to uninstall Defender before doing an Xcode upgrade.

ayberksencan OP

May ’22

Well, another newbie here. This is my first time actually using a MacBook and I have a 2021 MacBook Pro with 16Gigs of RAM and still, the installation of XCode takes drastically long even with the latest MacBook. I previously installed XCode on a VM but I left that one open overnight while sleeping and I didn't know that it takes this long. I was just about the abort the installation and restart it again but thankfully I found this topic. Well, the downloading part is ok. But the whole installation process is extremely slow. So, if you're having the same problems, probably you should wait for some more time. Just don't think that there is something wrong with your PC.

abdhashem OP

Jun ’22

With M1 Pro chip and 16GB of RAM, it took about 30 minutes to finish the installation

mnpn9 OP

Nov ’22

I tried to download directly from website https://developer.apple.com/download/all/?q=xcode save me a lot of time

franklin_clinton OP

Apr ’23

I have M1 Pro with 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD 300GB is free it took one hour and ongoing it’s not even hot or throttling. Damn!

danielwhat OP

Oct ’24

I also only have 8GB, but my solution was that I had an app (like CleanMyMac) installed and was able to clear my Memory while the installation was running. That seemed to have helped speed things up.