The thing that is frustrating to me, is that I'm so far behind the curve, I have not started downloading updates for some of the older OS yet.
So, yes, I do save all my updates as I download and use them -- although unraveling the file names later may be a pain. But I have not downloaded the updates for several systems now. I still don't have an Intel Mac, e.g..
Why would it be so hard for Apple to have a nice hierarchically organized FTP server for the old OS and updates, the way they used to for the pre-OSX stuff? It doesn't cost that much to keep a few FTP servers up and organized and it gives you a clear internal archive. Or, if you already have an internal archive with meaningful organization, then it should be trivial to mirror it as an FTP server of software downloads.
So, yes, I do save all my updates as I download and use them -- although unraveling the file names later may be a pain. But I have not downloaded the updates for several systems now. I still don't have an Intel Mac, e.g..
Why would it be so hard for Apple to have a nice hierarchically organized FTP server for the old OS and updates, the way they used to for the pre-OSX stuff? It doesn't cost that much to keep a few FTP servers up and organized and it gives you a clear internal archive. Or, if you already have an internal archive with meaningful organization, then it should be trivial to mirror it as an FTP server of software downloads.