- #WHY CANT I DOWNLOAD MAC OS HIGH SIERRA HOW TO#
- #WHY CANT I DOWNLOAD MAC OS HIGH SIERRA INSTALL#
- #WHY CANT I DOWNLOAD MAC OS HIGH SIERRA UPDATE#
Once it finishes (let's hope sucessfully), your Recovery Boot will ask you to reboot your machine. The whole process takes around 10 minutes. Once the long 'installer.' command starts running, a text mode installation will start. DOUBLE CHECK THE NAME OF YOUR WORKING HIGH SIERRA MOUNT POINT, typically it is "Macintosh HD", but you might have changed it.Īgain, we will finally double check on screen all the parameters of this command are as expected.
#WHY CANT I DOWNLOAD MAC OS HIGH SIERRA HOW TO#
Learn how to boot your Mac into Recovery Mode. Get a spare USB stick (with at least as much free space as the size of our new. Once it finishes downloading, double click onto the.
#WHY CANT I DOWNLOAD MAC OS HIGH SIERRA INSTALL#
dmg file we want to install from Apple, in our case "10.13.6 incremental update" from Apple If using it seems as black magic for you, call someone who understands how to launch programs and commands via Terminal.ĭownload the. The "TERMINAL" application will be used in the process.
THE WHOLE PROCESS WORKED FOR ME, BUT I HAVE NO IDEA IF IT WILL WORK FOR YOU AND YOUR MAC. IF SOME STEP IS UNCLEAR, CALL SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE IMPLICATIONS OF SAID STEP. I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS, LOST DATA, ETC. So I'm going to list here the steps I can remember I did.Ġ.- FIRST OF ALL, THE NEEDED DISCLAIMER: DO A BACKUP OF YOUR MAC SENSITIVE DATA, ETC.
#WHY CANT I DOWNLOAD MAC OS HIGH SIERRA UPDATE#
I said: "what would it happen if I tried to install the cumulative update via Recovery mode, from some spare USB I have?"Īnd that's exactly what I did. I had tried everything under the sun, and I was starting to think about not trying the update anymore.
Some days ago I was in the same situation as the original poster.