Now they did away with that access, but the older versions are still able to be downloaded and installed on any system on which they will run. You could only get the older system if you had already downloaded the installer previously so that it showed up on your "purchased" list. I'm not sure what you mean by "apple is getting closed minded on use of their older OSXs." Apple has always removed the installer for older systems when they release a new version. That's why I told him to boot from the USB he created and from there do the installation. DiskmakerX builds some hidden folders on the boot drive that don't appear when you mount the drive on a booted machine, but which work when you are booted from it. He just needs to boot from the installer drive he says he has made, instead of trying to run the installer from wherever his images come from, and let the process complete. That icon and name is for the drive, and needs to be the boot drive, not mounted on any other system.Ĭlick to expand.Because he wiped the drive at the start of the process (see post #1), his Mac won't boot.Īnd there is no reason to "forget about" HS, he has the installer. From your screenshots, you are not doing that boot step, but trying to run the initiation program from some other machine. Select that one to boot, then run the installation from there, installing to the Internal drive. (EDIT: Keep holding option until you see options on the screen.) Eventually you should see on the screen all bootable drives, which in your case would be the one USB drive. And that means DiskmakerX or something similar.Īll that said, if you used DiskmakerX to create a bootable drive, what you do now is attach that to the Mac, hold down option and boot it while holding down Option. But by wiping out the drive, leaving it unbootable, you put yourself in the position of having to find a way to boot it from something external to do the installation. And had you upgraded to HS instead of wiping out the drive, you would have had no problems with DiskmakerX. I know what I'm seeing is an issue with the software that is not related to Apple but there should not be any reason to have to go through so many hoops just to install an old OS.Ĭlick to expand.Nope, you have the full version, so Apple does provide it. I understand from a business perspective but I doubt I'll be buying another Macbook again. The fact Apple don't provide the full version shows that they simple don't want anyone using it/and or old hardware. I like to think of myself as a patient guy working on this for well over 10 hours now but I am getting close to calling it a day, there are so many hoops that shouldn't be there. So whatever happened has finished and it's not as it should be looking at videos on Youtube. I thought maybe it's running but not showing the window but the file does not increase in size. No window is showing from DiskMaker X 7 for High Sierra. Open the directory and it shows the same Install macOS High Sierra file but at 79.8 MB. No process screen shows and after a few seconds my drive appears on desktop. Select my drive (USB), enter my password. I have downloaded the Install macOS High Sierra file (5.24gb), I run the DiskMaker X 7 for High Sierra program, confirm the disk. There is no data on the laptop, my plan is to install the newest OS it will support then use it for file storage. For solution 1 I am unable to login to Apple cloud via Safari as Safari is so old the Apple cloud website is not loading correctly. I tried both and they are not working to resolve it. I found the following guide which had a couple of suggestions to deal with this: How to Fix This Item is Temporarily Unavailable After Reinstalling Your MacOS or OS X. I have gone to recovery mode, repaired the disk, removed and re-created the disk to no avail.ĭecided to try the Re-install Mac OS Lion option but I get a annoying error when logging-in to Apple "This Item is Temporarily Unavailable". Since then I have not been able to boot my Macbook. During the restart while applying the updates it would get stuck on the Apple loading screen. I removed all files and browsers when I updated Macbooks.Īfter downloading OS Lion and updating it everything seemed to go well, I then proceeded to install the updates under software update. I dedicated after years of being left alone that I would update the OS on my 2011 Macbook pro to use it for storing files.
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