
Since Xcode's debut in the Mac App Store, Apple has updated the software once to address hangs and other small glitches people were experiencing during installation, but it has not directly mentioned any data-loss problems. Others have echoed similar experiences in their responses to the thread which, of course, would cause anyone to raise an eyebrow. Upon reboot, sure enough, the HD wouldn't reboot.

Frantically, I shut my system down with a hard shut down. Once it was done downloading, I told it to go ahead and install, and.about halfway through its install I noticed my applications were deleting one by one. Glisten" describes his experiences: Last night, I bought the $4.99 Xcode app from the App Store. In a slowly growing thread on the Apple Discussion boards, some people have complained that the installer for Xcode has wiped their hard drives, resulting in them needing to restore their systems from backup.

While enticing, a few people have experienced problems with the Xcode install from the Mac App Store, with some seeing data loss and system corruption after the installation attempt. With the debut of the Mac App Store, Apple made the Xcode package available to people without the need to sign up for an ADC account, but charges $4.99 for the download. Apple's Xcode package contains all the tools for creating applications, tools, services, and other programs, for OS X and iOS, and has for the past few years been a free download from the Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Web site.
