Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

XCODE

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 08:16 pm
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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 [personal profile] 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 [personal profile] 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 [personal profile] exor674 you have been super awesome and patient with me and my connection throughout all this <333