I had an old Mavericks installer in the apps folder. I forgot I even put it in there.
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Apple Will Release OS X Mavericks Today as Free Download
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I had an old Mavericks installer in the apps folder. I forgot I even put it in there.
Did you buy your computer used/second hand?
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Yes it was since i had already downloaded it by then
Did you buy your computer used/second hand?
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Yes it was since i had already downloaded it by then
Nope.
I also discovered the problem and it's downloading now. It was a big mistake on my part, I screwed up and an hour or so of download time was wasted.
If it's free, just download a torrent. It won't be illegal and I am sure many torrent sites will have it.
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Keep in mind here, Microsoft gave away a SERVICE PACK needed to Fix Windows 8. Apple gave away an OS Upgrade for Free, that makes a great OS better.
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The only thing I am really waiting for is OS X Server 3.0 (aka Mavericks Server). It's still not showing up on the Mac App Store.
Reusing the Installer
Has anyone copied the downloaded installer over to another machine to install without a second download. I got it downloaded on my 50MB cable at the office, but I really don't want to have to download it again for my other Macs. Generally OS X deletes the installer from the Applications folder after completion but previously I have always kept a copy on an external for future reinstalls without an issue.
Has anyone copied the downloaded installer over to another machine to install without a second download. I got it downloaded on my 50MB cable at the office, but I really don't want to have to download it again for my other Macs. Generally OS X deletes the installer from the Applications folder after completion but previously I have always kept a copy on an external for future reinstalls without an issue.
Sneaky bastards
My company just spent $3000 to get Apple Volume Licensing and Apple Maintenance Licensing.
So they stole our money and also allow everyone to instantly upgrade before Dell/Quest has an opportunity to update their software for us to use it.... so if any end users decide to upgrade on their own, their system will be inoperable.
While Im happy as a consumer that its available now, a little lead time for the corporate customers would have been nice...
My company just spent $3000 to get Apple Volume Licensing and Apple Maintenance Licensing.
So they stole our money and also allow everyone to instantly upgrade before Dell/Quest has an opportunity to update their software for us to use it.... so if any end users decide to upgrade on their own, their system will be inoperable.
While Im happy as a consumer that its available now, a little lead time for the corporate customers would have been nice...
Yes, you can copy it over later across the network or airdrop if you copy it to another location other than Applications before installing in your main mac. (After installing it will delete the installer from Applications folder)
OR you can create a USB installer. Highly recommended...
Credited here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1649986/
No. Spoken as someone who has used and supported Windows for 20 years, and who has used OS X for 5 years.
Tell me how I'm wrong.
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Good point. But calling him out on that was pretty low hanging fruit.
Thanks!
I have to ask something a bit stupid but I've never had Windows installed along side OS X until now.
Is there a way to do a clean install of OS X on that section of my partition and it not screw up my Windows 8 install? Even if it's a relatively lengthy or stupidly time consuming process, I'd LOVE to know what and how to do it.
Well everything has been going fine for the past 24 hours till this afternoon when my fan decided to max out. No apps were open asides from activity monitor and noticed "com.apple.IconServicesAgent" had a 313% cpu usage. A force close solved the problem though.