Apple Older Software Downloads

Paralel · Nov 14, 2014

Wow, they finally did it.

SuperToaster · Nov 14, 2014

They had no real reason to take the page down... but as the saying goes, All good things must come to an end.

CC_333 · Nov 14, 2014

Yeah, but this particular good thing will never end, so long as somebody maintains a full mirror of it.

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westcoastech · Nov 14, 2014

I pretty much have system images of all software versions and many various copies of newer 6-7 images too.

CompuNurd · Nov 14, 2014

mbaran said:
edit: here's a MEGA link to the entire site, I just ripped it about 15 minutes ago. All files were verified to be non zero-byte, so I think I got it all. https://mega.co.nz/#!j5dhEDYL!IjxTCwHqmgkCIN3eUJbFbIt9t52rUouDQdBZNBcC7DQ

Time to store this for 30 years when John Titor needs it. Oh wait, that's IBM!

Scott Baret · Nov 14, 2014

The page is gone, but the software itself is still there!!

I found this discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4866503

Look for the links in one of the reply threads. I got the SSW 6.0.8 file to download successfully. Now I just need to do it on an old system so it downloads as a proper .sea file.

johnklos · Nov 14, 2014

mbaran said:
edit: here's a MEGA link to the entire site, I just ripped it about 15 minutes ago. All files were verified to be non zero-byte, so I think I got it all. https://mega.co.nz/#!j5dhEDYL!IjxTCwHqmgkCIN3eUJbFbIt9t52rUouDQdBZNBcC7DQ

It'd be nice to have a proper link to a real web accessible file, not a link to a site that tries to get you to install a "plugin" after stopping at 41%. Is this some sort of scam site? Has anyone else downloaded from this link?

CompuNurd · Nov 14, 2014

johnklos said:
It'd be nice to have a proper link to a real web accessible file, not a link to a site that tries to get you to install a "plugin" after stopping at 41%. Is this some sort of scam site? Has anyone else downloaded from this link?

Worked fine for me.

waynestewart · Nov 14, 2014

It's still there though their server seems to have trouble with it and I sometimes have to retry a page a few times

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates_sr16310449/English-North_American/

bse5150 · Nov 14, 2014

johnklos said:
It'd be nice to have a proper link to a real web accessible file, not a link to a site that tries to get you to install a "plugin" after stopping at 41%. Is this some sort of scam site? Has anyone else downloaded from this link?

Worked fine for me.

PMac5200_Guy · Nov 14, 2014

I'm wondering when they did it. I was looking for software updates/installs on that site (Apple Support) about a week ago and noticed the page was gone. They really need a different site just for those installers/updates. I like the old Apple technology I have and have no interest in changing it.

SuperToaster · Nov 15, 2014

I find the apple support site annoying at times. Sometimes I try to click on a support article and it just brings me to the regular /support page which is annoying. The "genius" people bother me I guess the faces are creepy haha

TheWhiteFalcon · Nov 15, 2014

That means they've deleted the article you want. It's annoying because most of those links are from search engines.

SuperToaster · Nov 15, 2014

Why do they wish to destroy information that can be useful? And yes, the links do come up in search engines and they just send you straight to the support home page. Seriously some one is going to have to back up the useful articles before Apple purges it all..

MacJunky · Nov 15, 2014

SuperToaster said:
Why do they wish to destroy information that can be useful?

Because it is from the mid 90s, and they are paying to host something that has had no bearing on anything they have sold in pretty much two decades at the least.
It is nice when you get this sort of resource hanging around for decades but honestly, a _lot_ of the people using it these days never bought a new Mac in their entire life and some of them really hate what Apple is now and do not intend on buying a new Mac yet still want support for their old machine that they found in dad's closet or on ebay cheap or curbside.

Hosting files costs money. I suppose you could argue that "they are already hosting files and these take up 0.001% of their resources". On the other hand catering to 0.001% is not always good for the company's time/bottom line, etc, despite being good for PR.

Apple does not actually owe you this resource. Most of you are not Apple's target market either no matter what some people might want to think.

Please keep in mind that this is a generalization, I am not singling out any specific people. Just commenting on what I see.

And do not get me wrong, I like when I can go to a company's website and get ancient drivers/docs.

snuci · Nov 15, 2014

I downloaded the site a while back so I have all of the other languages including "English-North_American" (that's in the file mbaran put up) if anyone wants to put up a legal mirror.

EDIT: Never mind, I see that max1zz has a mirror up

finkmac · Nov 15, 2014

*cough* *cough*

Nothing new, really… It's been closed for a while, it seems.

TheWhiteFalcon · Nov 15, 2014

There's two pages, this one and another.

Paralel · Nov 15, 2014

There is no way it happened last August. I downloaded stuff from the site just a few weeks ago.

TheWhiteFalcon · Nov 15, 2014

Like I said, there was that page, and then the one we all downloaded from.

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