XCODE

[afuna]

OMG. I finally got my hands on XCode. It only took me a month and a half!

Look just to let you know how hard it was, I:

• Started at the beginning of April. My first post where I mentioned trying to obtain XCode was made on April 15
  


• Spent two to three weeks trying to download it to my laptop. Each attempt failed after about a week, because my erratic internet would cause the download to time out


• Managed to massage the download using a download manager until one day I finally had 4.something gigs, but weirdly enough, the file was too big! The .dmg wouldn't open either.
  
  I had to log back in a couple of times, so I wonder if the 403 error page from Apple got appended to my download somehow?


• Tried to download it to my server, but I ran into a links issue (I think) which caused the download to consistently fail after some 140MB


• Was lucky enough to have exor674 volunteer to burn and send me a CD overseas ♥ Unfortunately, it looks like it took a battering in transit, because I couldn't open the file once it got to me


• Was lucky enough again to have exor674 volunteer to help download it again (!) and let me grab it via her server which, I mean, handled resumes like a champ even when my internet went down (again and again and again...)

And now I have xcode <3 And it took less than two months...

Thank you so so much exor674 you have been super awesome and patient with me and my connection throughout all this <333

Comments

[dreamatdrew]

Should something like this happen again, dropbox = reasonably good about trickle-downloads.

[exor674]

Getting it to dropbox would have been the problem, though.