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GONE!?! NO! download.info.apple.com

GONE!?! NO! download.info.apple.com Software 34 posts Jun 7, 2013 — Jun 18, 2013

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#1 Fri, 7 Jun 2013 - 05:14

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates is GONE! What to do?

#2 Fri, 7 Jun 2013 - 05:15

interesting

#3 Fri, 7 Jun 2013 - 05:19

It's in transition - Sometimes I seem to be getting a directory listing. Sometimes not. It's flatlining guys.

#4 Fri, 7 Jun 2013 - 07:09

crap. That's funny that I literally just posted a big list of updates and drivers I found to my website just last week.....

#5 Sat, 8 Jun 2013 - 04:09

I can still get a directory listing of http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/ and http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Apple_II, but no higher directories.

#6 Sat, 8 Jun 2013 - 04:50

Refreshing a few times seems to get a server that hasn't been "updated" yet.

#7 Sat, 8 Jun 2013 - 10:22

I wonder how much traffic that got?

Maybe apple will give permission to freely distribute that software, then maybe you can host it on applefool?

#8 Sat, 8 Jun 2013 - 10:28

Isn't most of the stuff from the old info.apple.com site posted here, tho?

https://support.apple.com/kb/TA48312?viewlocale=en_US

-J

#9 Sun, 9 Jun 2013 - 01:42

Right but the linked items are what's starting to come up 404.

#10 Sun, 9 Jun 2013 - 07:15

It's really hit and miss on me.

I can 404 on the first click but an F5 will bring it up eventually.

#11 Sun, 9 Jun 2013 - 08:49

Which leads me to believe they are removing them from the server pool onesy-twosy.

#12 Sun, 9 Jun 2013 - 09:00

Joy... Guess I'd better make some backup copies of the Service Source Compilation CD that I have... That way, I don't wear out the original disc...

-J

#13 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 - 23:39

Dump everything onto a 72gb drive in an ANS and connect through appleshare.

I'm pretty sure someone has already imaged the entire site.

#14 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 - 02:46

I don't think it's just this area of apple.com. I tried downloading the current Snow Leopard security update a couple of days ago and got a 404. Tried the link a second time and it kicked in.

But either way, backup this stuff if you can. Can't assume it'll be online forever.

#15 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 - 17:32

I grabbed the English-International, English_North_American and MultiCountry directories.

#16 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 - 18:23

:-D

Awesome man!

#17 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 - 01:47

What uniserver said.

:beige:

#18 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 - 03:49

Teriffic!

If you ever put it online I would make a copy from it

#19 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 - 07:17

Nice!

-J

#20 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 - 17:48

Have you checked your copy to make sure it's all in working order?

#21 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 - 21:40

lol, whut?

#22 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 - 08:17

I think he meant to ask if you made sure there were no corrupted files.

I assume you have

#23 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 - 08:55

Have you checked your copy to make sure it's all in working order?

Huh?

-J

#24 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 - 15:38

since it's up and down i'll set my server to make a compleat archive of it overnight.

Then put them all back up online

#25 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 - 19:13

It's an Akamai pool so it will be luck of the draw which server in the pool you connect to and if that server still has the files or not. If you're wget-ting the thing, be sure you don't have a bunch of 404's.

#26 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 - 19:32

Yeah, i'm wget-ing it, and am getting a ton of 404's (and unfortunatley there is no way to force retry on a 404)

Just gonna have to keep running over it till it gets everything (or manually fill the blanks....)

Already on my third pass over it seem to be getting only 1 - 2 GB a pass, not sure how much there is in total

#27 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 - 23:49

It looks like I have 2.7GB for these three:

Code:

1.1G	Apple_Support_Area/English-North_American
347M	Apple_Support_Area/English-International
1.2G	Apple_Support_Area/MultiCountry
-----
2.7G	Apple_Support_Area

#28 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 - 00:12

i'm up to 8.62GB, which is proabley about right then

Going through and doing individual wgets of each directory, then i will do a manual compare.....

interestingly i have slightly less than you for english_north_american (1.0GB) but more for english_international (365mb)

Got the same for MultiContry (1.2GB)

EDIT: Looks like i have a compeleat mirror now, will put it up somewhere tomorrow, then will do a manual compare

#29 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 - 03:25

I myself would also be pulling down a copy, if only I didn't suck at using wget.

#30 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 - 03:27

Would the moderators object to having one of us host a private, by invitation only mirror of this?

If there's no objections, it would be superb.

I would volunteer, but a) I don't have the bandwidth (and our ISP won't allow servers) and B) there's plenty of other people for whom this would be simpler.

c

p.s. I guess I should try downloading it for myself, at the very least.