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Wait for the MAS to complete installation of all the desired applications.Ĩ.

Click the Install button for the desired application(s).ħ. Go to the Mac App Store’s Purchased list.Ħ.

You’ll be notified that you can press any key to finish the process once the software has been downloaded from the MAS.ĥ. Note: Run the script with the logged-in user’s privileges. Do not run this script with root privileges, as the script will not locate the appropriate Mac App Store download folder when running as root.Ĥ. Open Terminal and begin running the script. Once the AppStoreExtract script is available, open the Mac App Store and sign in with the appropriate Apple ID for the applications in question.ģ. If needed, download the AppStoreExtract script and store it in a convenient location.Ģ. This script is designed to make copies of the installers from the Mac App Store, and is able to handle multiple installer downloads at once.ĪppStoreExtract is available from GitHub at the following address:įor more details on how to download installers from the MAS using AppStoreExtract, see below the jump.ġ. In particular, I routinely download and archive certain Apple applications from the MAS to guard against the possibility that Apple will remove older versions of a particular application that I still need to have available.Ī tool that has helped me with this has been Max Schlapfer‘s AppStoreExtract script. As part of my work, I occasionally need to download installer packages for certain applications from the Mac App Store.