I have a slow internet connection. I want to download Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) from the Mac App Store and resume the download if it gets interrupted because of my internet connection.
Does the Mac App Store allow resuming broken downloads?
MacOS – resume an interrupted download of Mac OS X Mountain Lion
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I'm not sure if this is done automatically when shutting down, but you can manually pause downloads in the purchases tab:
The Mac App Store allows to pause and resume downloads.
Also see the Apple support documentation:
Mac App Store: How to resume interrupted downloads
I was just searching for that, and No, you can't, it has to be downloaded in one time only. If you paused; it'll restart from the beginning.
This is the source from Apple Discussions: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4139031
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Best Answer
Yes - the App store handles interrupted purchases without intervention in most cases. There is a support article if you want to nudge things or it manages to wedge itself.
You don't have to let the download complete on iOS or Mac OS X and can control things on the Mac side of the store much better than on iOS.