{"id":14021,"date":"2016-03-30T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14021"},"modified":"2016-03-30T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:27:31","slug":"what-to-do-when-the-mac-app-store-app-just-spins-and-spins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/30\/what-to-do-when-the-mac-app-store-app-just-spins-and-spins\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When the Mac App Store App Just Spins and Spins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/mac\/what-to-do-when-the-mac-app-store-app-just-spins-and-spins\/\">TJ Luoma<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/mac\/what-to-do-when-the-mac-app-store-app-just-spins-and-spins\/\">\n<p>Recently I found myself in a bind: the Mac App Store app on my Retina MacBook would launch, but would not show me anything except a little spinning circle near the top-left corner. I left it like that overnight and when I came back the next morning it was still spinning. Fixing it was tricky, even for an experienced Mac user like myself, so I thought I&rsquo;d share what worked for me in case you ever find yourself in that situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His fix was to show the debug menu, use it to open the hidden downloads folder, delete that folder, and then (required) reboot the Mac.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/mac\/what-to-do-when-the-mac-app-store-app-just-spins-and-spins\/\">\n<p>This is also yet another problem with Mac software that will never show up in crash logs, because the app never crashed, but that didn&rsquo;t mean it wasn&rsquo;t broken. I hope Apple is more aware of this type of problem than they <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/thetalkshow\/2016\/02\/12\/ep-146\">sometimes appear to be<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TJ Luoma: Recently I found myself in a bind: the Mac App Store app on my Retina MacBook would launch, but would not show me anything except a little spinning circle near the top-left corner. I left it like that overnight and when I came back the next morning it was still spinning. Fixing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1143,131,30,39,1199],"class_list":["post-14021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-mac-os-x-10-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14022,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions\/14022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}