Update: Obviously, you’re changing Keychain Access preferences at your own risk. Here’s a video of what it looked like before I set CRL to “off”. If your Mac App Store is acting weird, try this fix. As for CRL itself, you can read more on Wikipedia. The ‘Certificate Revocation List (CRL)’ was originally set to “Best Attempt” on my MacBook Air, though I have MobileMe Keychain syncing enabled, so I can’t confirm on the default settings in OS X Lion. Like I said, it worked perfectly on my machine, and now the App Store’s slowness only depends on the speed of my Internet connection. Relaunch the Mac App Store and you should be setįrom a quick search online, I can see this is a rather old fix – I didn’t know about it. Set ‘Certificate Revocation List (CRL)’ to ‘Off’ Go to Keychain Access > Preferences > Certificates Open Keychain Access from Applications > Utilities Quit the Mac App Store with Command + Option + Q That was until 10 minutes ago, when reader Stu Helm sent me this tip from his personal blog that almost magically fixed my issues with the Mac App Store. On my new MacBook Air, the Mac App Store displayed a beachball on launch, quit, and everything in between (including simple actions like loading a new Category).
Apple’s App Stores have never been the fastest or most stable applications for the Mac, but they were acceptable. It was strange, because as I said the Mac App Store used to run okay on my two old machines. I asked on Twitter, and lots of people seemed to share my frustrations with “beachballs”, slow loading times, and general bugginess of the program.
#App store download slow pro#
However, I noticed something: the Mac App Store was terribly slow, unusually unresponsive when compared to the same Mac App Store running on my 2008 MacBook Pro and 2009 iMac.
After I booted it up and entered my personal information, I immediately launched the Mac App Store to re-install all my apps (and I also happened to get free iLife apps in the process). On Tuesday, I received the new MacBook Air (13-inch, base model) I bought from the Apple online store last week.