If that does not work, you need to re-download the needed installers. Pay attention to the warnings on this<\/strong> page<\/a> about carefully marking the various re-downloaded installers, as they will arrive on you computer indistinguishable from each other!<\/p>\n — <\/p>\n When trying to download various versions of macOS (including older ones), I noticed, that it did not always work as expected. So i took some notes and put together this guide for reference.<\/p>\n You can download High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina via App Store links:<\/p>\n How to upgrade to macOS Catalina – Apple Support<\/a><\/p>\n App store link:\u00a0Get macOS Catalina<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n How to upgrade to macOS Mojave – Apple Support<\/a><\/p>\n App store link:\u00a0Get macOS Mojave<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra – Apple Support<\/a><\/p>\n App store link:\u00a0Get macOS High Sierra<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n For\u00a0El Capitan<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0macOS Sierra<\/em>\u00a0Apple provides the direct download links instead of the App Store links in its own documentation. The App Store links will only work on High Sierra and below, as Mojave and Catalina will refuse to download these older versions.<\/p>\n How to upgrade to macOS Sierra – Apple Support<\/a><\/p>\n App store link:\u00a0Get macOS Sierra<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Direct download link:\u00a0Download macOS Sierra<\/a><\/p>\n the installer will copy\u00a0Install macOS Sierra<\/em>\u00a0into \/Applications<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n How to upgrade to OS X El Capitan – Apple Support<\/a><\/p>\n App store link:\u00a0Get OS X El Capitan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Direct download link:\u00a0Download OS X El Capitan<\/a><\/p>\n the installer will copy\u00a0Install OS X El Capitan<\/em>\u00a0into \/Applications<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n How to upgrade to OS X Yosemite – Apple Support<\/a><\/p>\n Direct download link:\u00a0Download OS X Yosemite<\/a><\/p>\n the installer will copy\u00a0Install OS X Yosemite<\/em>\u00a0into \/Applications<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n For even older versions try here:\u00a0How can I download an older version of OS X\/macOS? – Ask Different<\/a><\/p>\n Some of the problems relating to downloading macOS have been covered in this article:\u00a0How to download macOS Catalina, Mojave or High Sierra Full Installers<\/a><\/p>\n The\u00a0gibMacOS<\/a>\u00a0python script runs on Windows, Linux or macOS and is used in this Guide:\u00a0Downloading the Recovery HD image – \/r\/Hackintosh macOS Internet Install<\/a>\u00a0– For example to get the Yosemite Recovery Image run in the Terminal\u00a0 gibMacOS has a script to create the whole installer from the parts downloaded. You can only get the Full Installer of the latest supported OSes by Apple (like High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina).<\/p>\n get the\u00a0gibMacOS<\/a>\u00a0script<\/p>\n<\/li>\n run the script in Terminal\u00a0 select the appropriate entry<\/p>\n<\/li>\n let it download and wait (when finished type ‘q’ to quit)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n run\u00a0 drag the appropriate download folder onto the Terminal window (press enter and wait)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n the “Install macOS {MacOS Version}.app” will be in the same folder<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n More details here:\u00a0Preparing macOS for Installation<\/a>. Thanks to\u00a0midi1996<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0fewtarius<\/a>\u00a0who provided additional instructions for gibMacOS<\/p>\n Each GUI App has a macOS downloader included:\u00a0dosdude1<\/a>. For a hackintosh, you do not need to use any of the other features. The App downloads the full macOS installer from\u00a0swcdn.apple.com<\/a>\u00a0(checked with my firewall)<\/p>\n macOS Catalina Patcher<\/a>\u00a0(Download macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n Download macOS: Continue > Continue > Download a Copy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n macOS Mojave Patcher<\/a>\u00a0(Download macOS Mojave Patcher 1.3.7<\/a>)<\/p>\n Download macOS: Menu > Tools > Download macOS Mojave…<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n macOS High Sierra Patcher<\/a>\u00a0(Download macOS High Sierra Patcher 2.7.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n Download macOS: Menu > Tools > Download macOS High Sierra…<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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