Direct download of Bootcamp driver 6.1 for windows 10?

At the present time, Boot Camp Support Software version 6.x is only available from within Boot Camp Assistant. Apple has yet to provide a direct download link.

Commented Sep 13, 2016 at 14:35

4 Answers 4

found it on discussions apple forum
look for the LonerT's post Aug 25, 2015 7:24 PM in response to dioshy (quoting everything from there even though 2012 model is not your case but the solution still stands)

"1. Please see BootCamp 6 update not available on MacBook Pro mid 2012 with Windows 10 for the two methods supported by Apple to get BC6 drivers.

  1. You can manually download BC6 drivers from Apple CDN using Brigadier (https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier) by specifying your model number available from How to identify MacBook Pro models - Apple Support .
  2. Please also see Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support."

answered Mar 4, 2017 at 0:01 141 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges This is interesting, however it doesn't download the correct package for my 2013 MBP. Commented Apr 19, 2017 at 17:23

Brilliant, works perfectly. @user3439894: you can specify the model of your computer and the package you want with the arguments to Brigadier.

Commented Jul 22, 2017 at 17:08

Doesn't work so well for Bootcamp 6. There's now a comment in the ReadMe.md for this repository that states that. I've run into problems trying to get it to work myself.

Commented Nov 22, 2017 at 3:26 How does this work if the mac is enrolled in the Remote Management program? Commented May 28, 2020 at 19:50

Any idea where one might find step by step instructions on using brigadier on an iMac? Do you load python on the iMac? All the instructions are for Windows which makes no sense or am i missing something? Confused (I wish they would just fix BootCamp Assistant and make it compatible with the last 3 releases of Win 10 !)

Commented Apr 21, 2021 at 1:00

If you are running El Capitan (OS X 10.11), you can download the Boot Camp Support Software by following the steps given below.

  1. Open the Boot Camp Assistant application.
  2. Selelct "Action" on the Menu Bar.
  3. Select "Download Windows Support Software".

Apple officially supports Windows 10 on the newer Macs. Generally these are the 2012 and later models. The originally released version of Windows 10 was number 1511. The Windows version can be determined by opening a Command Prompt window and entering the command winver . Below is example.

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For version 1511, read only access to HFS+ formatted partitions can be enabled by installing the Boot Camp Support Software.

Recently, Microsoft has released a new version numbered 1607. This is referred to as the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. This version has a bug that can prevent read only access to HFS formatted volumes. Here is a link to an Apple Communities web site that also confirms this bug exists. Therefore, if you using version 1601 of Windows 10, you many not be able to access HFS formatted volumes even if you have installed the Boot Camp Support Software. Until this bug is fixed, users will have to use version 1511 or find another way copy data from HFS formatted volumes.

Paragon Software offers drivers that allow read/write access to HFS+ file systems. They offer a 10 day trial period for you test the drivers. I have not done this. So I do not know if the bug also affects their drivers. Another alternative would be to allow OS X to read/write to NTFS formatted volumes. Again, Paragon Software offers this software for OS X.