Reinstall Xcode 8 beta 2

As Beta 3 of Xcode crashes every five minutes and is completely unusable for me, I would like to go back to beta 2. Does anyone have an official download link for me somewhere (I overwrote my installation, unfortunately)

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I tried that and also cleaning/moving moving my derived data folder, but it didn't help. BTW, I did find the link to beta 2 in case someone is interested:


http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_8_beta_2/Xcode_8_beta_2.xip

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Had issues with beta 3 as well until I completely cleaned my project. No problems since then. Sorry, no link for beta 2. Regards.

Well that's a shame; while understandable that the main page would only store the latest versions (https://developer.apple.com/download/), the additional downloads area doesn't include any of the various beta downloads of Xcode itself. It only contains the additional components for various beta versions (https://developer.apple.com/download/more/)


In my case, I always hold onto the download of the last shipping version of Xcode as well as every single preview/beta download. I too found beta 3 to be unusable (simple edits were causing SourceKitService to eat up all my RAM; process ate up as high as 42 GB once). Thus, reverted to beta 2 already. So for the future, definitely keep the older downloads around to make switching between versions easy.


I would also provide feedback to Apple (maybe even a bug report) to ensure that all Xcode beta versions show up somewhere.

In my case, when moving to a new Xcode version, I always **** the entire 'DerivedData' folder, etc and clean every project. No luck; doing simple edits causes SourceKitService to eat up all RAM. Bug filed by the way on that.

I tried that and also cleaning/moving moving my derived data folder, but it didn't help. BTW, I did find the link to beta 2 in case someone is interested:


http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_8_beta_2/Xcode_8_beta_2.xip

> simple edits were causing SourceKitService to eat up all my RAM; process ate up as high as 42 GB once


That is exactly what I am seeing! Good to know that I am not the only one.

Excellent; glad Apple is keeping those downloads around.