MacOS – How to pause the download on Mac App Store and then resume it later

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I am downloading macOS Sierra from Mac App Store. But I have electricity problem here. Due to which my iMac will lose power after 2 hours. Now I want to pause the downloading so that I can resume the download later on. How can I do that?

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Best Answer

Open Launchpad and you will see your downloading app. Simply click on the app icon to pause the download, and click it again to resume.

launchpad showing paused download