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OS X Mavericks failed to download, Use the Purchases page to try again


I was trying to upgrade Mac OS and kept running into this error message when I tried to resume interrupted download. I was able to get around this problem by following steps mentioned below, which were originally posted in this post.

  1. Quit App Store.
  2. Open Terminal.
  3. Execute this: defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
  4. Launch App Store.
  5. At the Menu bar, there should be a "Debug".
  6. Click on that and press "Reset Application"
  7. Restart App Store.

After resetting the app store I was able to initiate a fresh download of Mavericks.

Comments

Unknown said…
Thanks! Finally something that worked...
Max said…
It looks like if you manually downgraded to iTunes 10, you have to go back to 11 first. — http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=18248525#post18248525
Unknown said…
Thanks! fixed it!!
Anonymous said…
Wow thank you this worked for me!
Unknown said…
Thanks!! Dude it's worked for me.,
thank's a lot
Unknown said…
Thanks worked great!