Software Update - file location?

Just curious as to where Software Update stores all of the local files. Just set it up and want to know where to keep an eye on for large files. I found what I think may be it in /library/caches/..... but all the folders say 0 KB, so not sure if thats really it

Anyway to move the download folder to another local drive?
One solution: Do you think I could make the html folder an alias to the local drive I want to store all of the apple downloads?

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Where are the software update files located?

Because I get charged for my download traffic (don't ask--one of the drawbacks of living in the country), I set my software update preference to download the latest 10.5.4 update. That way I can then transfer the update file to our other computers. However, I can't find where Apple sticks the file.
Thanks,
John

Hello John,
That ability to "Install and keep package" in Software Update, doesn't work.
It use to be an extremely useful thing, but now no longer works in Leopard. Instead you will have to download the Update from the Apple site and then you will be able to keep it, and only use Software Update to tell you want you need.
In 10.3, not sure about 10.4 I could collect all packages, which I would then burn onto a CD. But alas, no more.
roam

Software Update Files

Hi,
Is it possible to somehow keep all the software update files, so when I re-install my OSX Server Operating System tonight I won't have to download all the updates again?

Hi Cliff, yes it is. They are stored in the /usr/share/swupd/html/ directory. If you backup this directory and all it's contents and copy it back over ,before you try and start the service, once you're up and running, all should be ok.
This is of course assuming you're using the same IP/FQDN setup for the rebuild.
Cheers

About Apple software update file directory

i want to know where did the Apple Software Update put the update file and data? im using windows 7. i want to delete them as it is no longer use after installed. i just want to make sure they dont grow and grow and eat my hard disk space.

Hi Bill!
I have done this very thing with SUS due to an internal SD drive that lacks capacity. in the SUS service in server admin, under Settings, Store Updates In prompt:
What I did is set up the directory structure I wanted (I kept the original structure, var/db/swupd/), I then checked the permissions on the directories and made sure they were set the same, then copied all the data over. If you leave the directory empty, I believe all the updates will re-download. This was the easiest service to change data stores for me. I also did the same for wiki services, and depending on the updates (nothing significant in a while) I would sometimes have to go in and re-correct permissions on the new larger volume.
So you answered your own question on what the restrictions are: size of data/storage location, and permissions.
HTH

Software Update Download Location

Hi all
Wonder if you can help. I want to set up the servers software update facility but have it download the files onto an external HD.
To confess I don't know what I'm doing in terminal but have tried to follow the Server manual but with no joy.
Any way the external drive name is:
VTrak RAID
and the folder on their that I'd like all the packages downloaded into is:
Apple Software Updates.
I have been into terminal and followed the instructions:
To delete the software update folder in Terminal:
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/share/swupd/html
And then tried to create a symbolic link as so:
$ ln -s /newstoragelocation /usr/share/swupd/html
I enter the following (which I'm assuming is wrong)
$ ln -s /VTrak RAID/Apple Software Updates /usr/share/swupd/html
Would anyone mine posting the correct way to get the packages to download into the appropriate folder
Secondly I under stand that to get the client to see the server (instead of Apple) you do the following in terminal:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.softwareupdate CatalogURL http://your.server.com:8088/
enter password and it should see your server. However if I **** it up or should just want to change back to the Apples server does any one know the address for that.
Sorry that it's long and appreciate you input.
Steve
PS if any one form Apple reads these forums. Why not have a choose download location button in Server Admin and a choose update server button in client.. Then we'd not need terminal.... Remember user friendly....lol

How do I get permission - normally terminal will ask for a password but not this time
Really? when? Terminal never asks for a password when creating links.
Maybe you're thinking of sudo, which may ask for a password to elevate your privileges before running the command, but your example didn't use sudo.
Additionally, even with sudo the command won't do what you want. The permissions it's complaining about is more likely to be the fact that the original /usr/share/swupd/html directory already exists, in which case ln is trying to create a link to the external RAID within the existing directory and you don't have permission to change that directory. You will need to remove the existing directory in order to turn it into a link.
The other option, of course, is to change the apache configuration so that it just reads from the RAID directly (you may need to do this anyway in order to tell Apache to follow symlinks).
Therefore your best option may just be to edit the DocumentRoot directive in /etc/swupd/swupd.conf

Cannot delete old apple device software update file from trash

I restored a new iPad from an old one and now there is an .ipsw file with the is08 8.0.2 update and I cannot delete it even tried command secure delete and option secure delete. The file is grayed out and says it is in use by another application. Please help me get rid of this.
Oh and not sure this is related but I cannot sync my iPad now, it says error 1723.
Thanks.

Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility from the following page (use one of the links under the thingy on the Major Geeks page):
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
To install the utility, doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file you downloaded.
Now run the utility ("Start > All Programs > Windows Install Clean Up"). In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any Apple Software Update entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another iTunes install. Does it go through properly this time?

Software Update - Files Stored locally

Hi Peeps. I am now down to 20gb on my 100gb MacBook Pro HD. I need to find some more space! I have gone through and removed all the old iPhone and iPod firmware updates I no longer need and lots of the additional files from Applications I no longer use.
Here is my question - do the software updates (Downloaded via the automated Software Update App) get stored locally on my drive? If so where are they and is it safe to bin them? I really need to free up some space.
I know this is an Apple forum but are there another Apps that leave large lingering files behind following an update. (MS Office 08, Quark 7.31, CS3, Final Cut Xpress, iLife 08 etc)?
Look forward to your help

Nothing you download through Software Update should leave any installers on your Mac. If you download outside of Software Installer, it's up to you to eject and delete the .dmg file. If you have any, you would see them in the sidebar of Finder or in your Downloads folder.
Have you gone to /Library/Printers and deleted all but print driver(s) you use? That will free up some space. Since your data is not about to begin shrinking, I also strongly suggest you get another disk for backup
EDIT: What Size can help you find what's hogging your disk space.
-mj
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Moving directory with Software Update files from one server to another

Hi guys,
I have recently bought a Mac Mini to move on it my test system Mac OS 10.9 with Server 3.0, running on VM.
My question is:
Is it possible to move the Software Update packages/directory from one server to another, so I don't need to wait a whole week to have them all downloaded from the Apple servers?
I assume, if replace all the Software update fodder it is not going to work as there are some kind of index files elsewhere that will not accept that change.
I haven’t tried any migration assistant as don’t want to replicate the server.
Any suggestions, please?

hi Lucas,
i just stumbled onto this post of yours while searching for solutions for a somehow related issue that's kept me thinking.
your post isn't new, yet it received no answers... maybe you found a solution already.
in case you haven't, a possible hint might come from https://discussions.apple.com/message/20478878#20478878
for the record, i've installed os x server 3.0 on mvrx 10.9 on a 4-year old Intel Core 2 Duo mac mini with 500GB disks.
in my case, it's the almost 200GB of update files wasting what's left of my storage real estate to press for a solution.
tried to do what's suggested here, seems to work fine on my system, too. hope this helps.

To where are Software Updater file downloaded?

I have a software package to update on two computers. The computers are the same and I need to update software on both computers. However, where I live we pay for each megabyte downloaded so I would like to update the first computer then copy the update file to the other. Where does the Software updater store the downloaded files so I can get the file after the first computer is updated?

Whew, took me an hour of searching Apple Downloads to +not find it+ via dial-up!
Then via Google through 4 other sites with clues & back to Apple for 4 more 5 minute steps at pages with links loading leads me to this...
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/index.html
The Resources link on that page leads e to...
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/download/
Where it doesn't mention "Express", but who knows since I don't have a Serial# to sign in with!
Back to *Software Update*, if you choose to "Download only" or possibly "Install & keep Package", the file should be at Library>Packages, but I'm not certain that some of Apple's SWUPDs allow even keeping the PKG.
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Software Update File Size Different than Apple Downloads File Size

Background:
I am running software update and it retrieves the update for "MacBook, MacBook Pro Software update 1.1" File size is listed as 768K. When I go to the Apple Downloads page for this update, the file size is 979K.
Download ID is 16618 and URl is http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macbookmacbookprosoft wareupdate11.html
Question:
Is this discrepancy normal based on the way that Software Update calculates file size or should I be concerned? There is no hash to confirm integrity of the file.

File size, and the volume of space it takes up are 2 different things. Space will very from computer to computer. Chances are, the larger the drive the more space it takes up. Reason? The file system (HSF + on macs with Leopard). The file sytem divides the drive into specific number of sections. That number may be 10 M, say. So, even if you have a thumbnail that is 4 kb, it will still require the minimum size of the file system. Make sense? There is a lot of wasted space on very large drives.
Note: Leopard is set up to use a new file system that apple may soon adopt. It will not use the division method HFS + uses, and so will save a lot of space, if adopted.

Mac os x server software update data location

Does anyone know how to change the data location of Mac OS X Server (v3) Software Update?
I'd like to move it to a large RAID permanently connected to the server but I can't find the command in serveradmin.
Cheers,
Kirk

Why not move the whole boot disk and Serve.app and the rest out to the RAID array? It's not like OS X is that big a hunk lately in comparison with the size of various RAID arrays, and relocating the whole configuration means you won't have to deal with a piecemeal relocation, nor any future upgrade weirdnesses that might arise from the relocation.
That approach aside, Mavericks Server storage is mostly under the /Library/Server path. I haven't tried relocating indidual hunks yet, either.
Ah, slightly misread... You could shut off Software Update entirely, and use Reposado. That'll let you do what you want.
The other hunk you'd probably want to move is the Caching Server.

Software Update File directory

Are there any restrictions to storing Software Updates on a separate internal or external hard drive, rather than using the start-up drive? I'd like to use a different drive with additional capacity, but have run into some problems in the past with certain server services.
If it is OK, any particular permissions required?
Thanks,
Bill

Hi Bill!
I have done this very thing with SUS due to an internal SD drive that lacks capacity. in the SUS service in server admin, under Settings, Store Updates In prompt:
What I did is set up the directory structure I wanted (I kept the original structure, var/db/swupd/), I then checked the permissions on the directories and made sure they were set the same, then copied all the data over. If you leave the directory empty, I believe all the updates will re-download. This was the easiest service to change data stores for me. I also did the same for wiki services, and depending on the updates (nothing significant in a while) I would sometimes have to go in and re-correct permissions on the new larger volume.
So you answered your own question on what the restrictions are: size of data/storage location, and permissions.
HTH

Nokia 3250 software update File!

can use DAP or any download accelerator to just download the update file, and then use the updater to update my phone soft?
when i used the updater the connection sometimes stops and there's no Resume!!!
i have to start all over again, and the update file is 61.7MB!
another question :-D
will i loose my languages when i update?
thanx

The NSU update will deliver a phone software (firmware) package that has the same languages that were on the device when it left the factory where it was made.
If the language has been changed after that by a "grey market" importer/reseller, then you may loose the language that is on the device now.

Where are iOS update files located on my Mac in Lion?

Since Lion I can't seem to find the iOS update files on my Mac. Which leads to my next question can I delete the latest update 4.3.5 and redownload it for a restore?
Thanks,
Bryan

Thank you! I did not know where to find the migrated files either. I had lots of user folders to look through but finally found the one with my Pc data in it. Dragging it to the desktop enabled me to access my files and drag them into my Mac Folders.

Where are the update files located?

Hi. We have five Macs around here: two Tigers, two Panthers, and a Jaguar. It's a royal pain to have to download the update files individually for each machine. Can somebody tell me where the update files are stored, so we can save time and bandwidth on updates by copying and/or running the updates from one machine to another?
MTIA, Matt
PowerBook Titanium G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

Seems you never use SU to download, before.
It took me a little while to decide whether to be offended by this or not...
I take it you mean that SU, had I downloaded to disk without installing, would have created the directory in question, but since I had not used this option the directory has not yet been created so it was not there.
Thank you for the tip. I am, even as we speak, downloading the appropriate update files to my Jaguar machine's desktop (the interface is a bit different, but I now know what to look for heh heh). For future updates I shall do the same.
Many thanks...:)
Matt
PowerBook Titanium G4 Mac OS X (10.4) eMac (10.4), eMac (10.3), Lombard (10.3), G3 beige (10.2)

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