10.11.1 Not Available to Download

Thank you Max. I did receive the e-mail for the GM a couple weeks ago, but when I went into the App store to download it, it said there were no updates available so I never did anything about it. Then when 6 came out, I tried to install and still no updates were available (obviously per your reply). Do you know why I wasn't able to download the GM?

The GM was only available in the "Purchased" section of the App Store, not the "Updates" section. Some people needed to revisit the beta program website to make it appear there (too late for that now of course).

[EDIT: Anyone else reading this for the answer to the thread, if you haven't already checked your "Purchased" tab in the App Store, do so - you may have already got the code before the deadline but never checked the right tab]

-Max

Max,

Just an fyi, I went into my purcahsed and I was able to download the GM... so I dwonloaded it and then I was able to update to 10.11.1 from the updates section of the App store. Not sure why it was still avaialble, but it worked 🙂

That's to be expected - once it's in your Purchased section, it stays there. I took it from your earlier post that you had already checked and, assuming you didn't, it would have been too late to get the code that would have put it there.

Hi Max108, thanks for the answer.

As a mix of questioning and suggestion, do you know why is it necessary to go over all this hassle? Why not just allow Beta program participants to just upgrade normally through the regular update tab?

Me and quite a lot of colleagues spent the last weeks looking for a way to migrate from the old El Capitan Betas to the final version (or to the new beta) with no success, likely because of this whole process.

Thank you

MAS operation is predicated on release versions, not betas, which lie outside that process, for reasons other than trying to keep MAS simple and troubleshooting by staffers answering the phone to that area, etc.

And while it's a good question as to why the knots when betas are installed, keep in mind that process always invites risk rather than smoothness. If Apple could make it cleaner, I'm sure they'd at least try, but hey, it's called development for a reason, I guess 😉 and they seem to have their hands full just trying to make MAS do what it does for the public at large.