Where can one easily get a copy of the High Sierra installer? I have a older MacBook Air I'm having trouble getting Mojave ok and want to get a.
Recently my sister asked me to reinstall the macOS High Sierra on her iMac because it stopped working correctly. I thought that it would be easy to do but I was mistaken. I successfully installed the macOS Mountain Lion (when using the NetBoot it automatically selects the version of macOS with which the iMac was shipped with). But then I was facing multiple issues trying to update macOS from Mountain Lion to High Sierra via the Mac App Store.
After downloading a copy of macOS High Sierra from the Mac App Store, I started installing the update. The Mac rebooted, and it seemed that everything was going well, but it was not. The progress bar did not move at all, or moved very slowly. I waited a few hours I began to figure out what was going on and found out the following. Attempting to download macOS High Sierra from the Mac App Store I found that a small 19 MB version of the “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file downloads to the “Applications” folder, rather than the complete 5.2 GB installer file.
That’s the problem. The tiny 19 MB incomplete installer requires an internet connection during usage to download the rest of the High Sierra update files. Additionally, it does not allow me to create a macOS High Sierra USB installer drive for use on multiple computers. I’ve found a new workaround, and in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to download the complete “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file from Apple server using the “macOS High Sierra Patcher” app instead of via the Mac App Store. About the app In this workaround, we’re going to use the app from the. This app is intended for those with unsupported Macs and Hackintosh users, but any Mac user can use the app to be able to download the complete macOS Mojave installer file from Apple servers.
For our purposes in this particular walkthrough, we will use the app only to download the complete installer file. This method relies on a third party app from an unverified third party source. If you are not comfortable with using unvetted and unverified software, do not follow this process.
Let’s begin Downloading the complete “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file from Apple server using the “macOS High Sierra Patcher” app is a really easy process. Now, step by step guide.
Launch the “macOS High Sierra Patcher” app. By default, macOS preventing apps from unidentified developers or sources from being launched. So you most likely will get an alert message that says: “macOS High Sierra Patcher.app can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer”.
To allow just one specific app to run do the following:. Hold down the Control key and click the app icon. From the contextual menu choose Open.
A popup will appear asking you to confirm this action. Click the Open button. Close the “macOS High Sierra Patcher” app when the download is complete and locate the “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file you downloaded. Conclusion That’s it, you’re done. Now you have the complete “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file downloaded. So simple isn’t it?
You can confirm that you have the complete “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file by getting info on the file. For this simply select the file and click the Spacebar key (or right-click on the file and choose “Get Info”). The complete installer should be around 5.2 GB rather than the tiny 19 MB incomplete installer that requires additional downloads.
Remember, the “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file deletes itself automatically after macOS High Sierra has successfully installed. Therefore, you may want to make a backup by having previously copied it to external storage. Let me know in the comments section if you know another way to download the complete “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file rather than the tiny incomplete installer. I hope this article has helped you learn how to downloaded the complete “Install macOS High Sierra.app” file from Apple servers.
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Where can one easily get a copy of the High Sierra installer? I have a older MacBook Air I’m having trouble getting Mojave ok and want to get a USB bootable installer going but the Mac I have is running on Mojave so it keeps saying I can’t download High Sierra so I’m stuck in a loop. The Air runs a fusion drive so separately anyone having luck getting fusion drives working with Mojave?
I have 128GB onboard HD and a 128GB SD card. EDIT To add more to this I’m getting an error and install loop.
The error is generic and says that there was an error installing and gives a (com.apple.DiskManagement error -69854). Can’t seem to find anything about that specific error but see many posts about the root error message “com.apple.DiskManagement error”.