Unable to install Xcode

[andrewmarmion]

Describe the bug
When trying to install a version of Xcode, Xcodes fails in the extracting process with the following error message:

The operation couldn’t be completed. (ProcessExecutionError(process: <NSConcreteTask: 0x600001c92120>, standardOutput: "xip: signing certificate was "Software Update" (validation not attempted)\n", standardError: "xip: error: The archive “Xcode-16.1.0-Beta+16B5001e.xip” failed to be moved to the final destination due to the error: The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation not permitted.\n"))

I am able to download the same version of Xcode from the developer.apple.com without issue.

To Reproduce
Try to install Xcode version from list in panel.

Expected behavior
I would expect that the extraction would happen without issue and the the version of Xcode would be installed.

Screenshots

Version

• OS: 14.6.1 (23G93)
• Xcodes: 2.20 (27)

[darrenallen7]

+1

[MattKiazyk]

Just curious if you have Xcodes running from /Applications?

A guess would be its saying it doesn't have permission to move the app after it's done unxipping.

[andrewmarmion]

@MattKiazyk Xcodes is running from /Applications.

It was working fine until 2 days ago when I went to download the latest betas to do some testing. I tried uninstalling Xcodes and reinstalling but it didn't make a difference. I got the same error.

A guess would be its saying it doesn't have permission to move the app after it's done unxipping.

That was my thought too.

[MattKiazyk]

Workaround would be to grab the .xip from the ~/Users/xxx/Library/Application support/com.robotsandpencils.xcodesapp directory and manually unxip and move it.

If it worked 2 days ago and not now hopefully nothing major has changed. I did 16.0 RC with no problems on Monday. I also did 16.1 beta this morning without issue.

[andrewmarmion]

Sorry I should clarify, that I only tried to use it again 2 days ago. Last time I had used it to install a version of Xcode would have been back in May when 15.4 came out. I had no issues then. When I tried to use it two days ago it obviously didn't work.

I'll use the work around for now.

[zellyk]

I am stuck at unarchiving as well for xcode 16.0

[andrewmarmion]

What is strange is that it worked on Monday, after I updated to macOS Sequoia and downloaded the final version of Xcode 16. However, it failed when trying to extract the 16.1 Beta 2.

I followed @MattKiazyk suggestion and went to grab the .xip manually from the folder it was downloaded to. Rather than extracting it, I decided to delete the downloaded xips in the folder and try it again from Xcodes. This time it worked and extracted it copying it without issue to the Applications folder.

[TomQDRS]

I just encountered this issue too. Since this seems to be a permission issue, I looked through my mac settings for a quick solution. I was able to work around this issue by going to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access and adding Xcodes there. I am on MacOS Sonoma 14.7.

[PorterHoskins]

+1

[bluesky335]

+1

[HDT3213]

+1