Using the link ( ) in posting #2 above I was redirected to the App store for downloading El Capitan. Once you have an installer, nobody but you yourself can make it disappear/erase.Ī question related to the above (excellent advice BTW). This is time-saving and makes you independent of sudden non-previsible changes in apple´s customer policies. This is the time always just after the next OS after begins its buggy existence in autumn.Īfter you installed a new OS, you will be asked if you want to delete the installer or if you want to keep the installer. Ive, I personally wait always just to the very last version of a "new" OS before installing it. By doing that it is not even necessary to download it once you want to install. You can also download the installer several times and copy it on a CD or so. (I think this works maybe even automatically) ALWAYS keep yourself independent by choosing "Manual update" - but then always look for security updates and so on and install them.Įven if you only downloaded but not installed the last OS-version but a previous version from before, once you install it, you will be able to update to the latest version before the next version entered the market. So you have always access to the OS, even if you never installed it - and even if apple decides to no longer allow you in future times to download "purchased" OS! Once you downloaded it, it is registered as "purchased and ready to install". as long as it is the "newest" one and appears as "update" in the App Store-app. That is the reason why one should ALWAYS just download (not: install) the newest (mostly for one year very buggy) OS. If you have to have El Capitan then you could try what I already suggested in my previous post. Installing Yosemite then trying to get El Capitan will not work unless you have already purchased El Capitan (per my test). You could download Yosemite from your Purchased tab and then make a Yosemite USB installer. OS 10.9 - 10.11 were removed form availability for purchase when a new OS was released. Apple does not allow you to download 10.7 to 10.11 (10.11 unless you meet certain requirements) unless you previously purchased it. From OS 10.12 to 10.13 Apple stopped that requirement. That is not your situation.įrom OS 10.7 to 10.11 Apple tied the OS to your Apple ID used to "Purchase" (download). It is geared to provide El Capitan for people that need to meet El Capitan requirements for High Sierra because they are on Snow Leopard or Lion. Take a closer look at the Apple Support info in the link. It still would not let me download El Capitan. I did not currently have Yosemite on a Mac, so I connect a External drive that had a basic installation of Yosemite (10.10.5) to a 2011 MBP that I was not using. If you have not previously "Purchased" (Downloaded) El Capitan, then you may have to get it from a nearby friend or buy a El Capitan (10.11.6) USB installer from eBay.ĮDIT: Can you use Sierra (10.12.6) instead?Ĭlick to expand.It would really help if you told us what Mac model you have? After you create the USB installer successfully then you can delete the "Install OS X El Capitan" installer app from the Applications folder. Now you are ready to create a El Capitan USB Installer. I would recommend saving the Installer app somewhere safe on another drive and leave the original installer app in the Application folder for creating the USB installer drive. That will leave you with a "Install OS X El Capitan" installer app (about 6 GB) in the Applications folder. As it launches Quit the installer at the first question. When the installer is downloaded it will automatically launch. I could download 10.11 if I used the App Store "Purchased" tab (I had previously downloaded El Capitan):Ĭlick continue and it will download the El Capitan installer. I just used the above links while using Sierra and got the same message: Click to expand.You are getting that message because you are using one of these links with a newer OS:
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