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Is Sierra showing up in 'Purchases' for you?
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I couldn't see it anywhere at first, so I did a search for "macOS" and it showed up in the results, so now I'm downloading it.
I just checked, and it is showing up on the front page of the Store now.
I just checked, and it is showing up on the front page of the Store now.
zepman
macrumors regular
It does not for me.
When you try to "purchase" it, you can only press "Download" not the usual "Get".
When I downloaded it, it appeared under the title "Other Purchases".
Maybe Apple is tying the license to your computer and not your Apple ID?
When you try to "purchase" it, you can only press "Download" not the usual "Get".
When I downloaded it, it appeared under the title "Other Purchases".
Maybe Apple is tying the license to your computer and not your Apple ID?
zepman
macrumors regular
It was a temporary title that showed up when macOS Sierra was downloading.
grahamperrin
macrumors 601
Strange, it shows as "Get" under the app store on my work Mac. I haven't downloaded it yet, so can't say.
With that said, what'd the point be of tying the license to a single Mac? Sierra is free, so theoretically it shouldn't make a bit of a difference.
With that said, what'd the point be of tying the license to a single Mac? Sierra is free, so theoretically it shouldn't make a bit of a difference.
grahamperrin
macrumors 601
Not so strange. That's the word that's used with App Store in some versions of the OS.
No, I was saying "strange" in reference to the fact that some people upthread were seeing the 'link' as "Download", not "Get", despite them not having "purchased" macOS Sierra yet.
grahamperrin
macrumors 601
@KoolAid-Drink I never used a redemption code, I think mine said Download. I can check again after installation completes.
Confirmed: on the Featured page, the button for macOS Sierra says DOWNLOAD
Confirmed: on the Featured page, the button for macOS Sierra says DOWNLOAD
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Just downloaded it at home (it showed as "Download", not "Get") and it downloaded, but isn't showing up under the Purchased list, either, hmmm.
Bug or intentional? Hard to say.
Bug or intentional? Hard to say.
grahamperrin
macrumors 601
I found the same. And I did scroll to the foot of the page where a 2000 purchase might be.
When I next boot the OS I'll get the build ID of the installer .app
I downloaded it and the installed popped up behind the App Store app.
It is/was not not showing under the purchased tab. Its not been a very intuitive update experience.
It is/was not not showing under the purchased tab. Its not been a very intuitive update experience.
grahamperrin
macrumors 601
After you perform the installation, begin a second download of the installer, tell us whether it shows 2000.
The build is:
10.12 (16A323)
which is the same as the third GM candidate released a couple days ago or so.
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MacCubed
macrumors 68000
Ok here's my opinion: The same thing happened to me, where it came up in "Other Purchases" with the date January 1st 2000. I talked to a few people and they too had the issue.
Theory 1: After a bit of thinking, I was positing about how we can currently "Downgrade" our Macs by downloading an older, purchased version of OS X from the App Store. As we all know with iOS devices, Apple refuses to let us downgrade to an older OS. Maybe this is their way of implementing this in macOS.
Theory 2: The Hackintosh community. Sure you can still download the Sierra installer to your Mac and then use it to install on Hackintoshes, but with Apple not allowing this to stay in purchases, it forces a Hackintosher to come up with a different way to download the file. If they want it, they will get it, but not from Apple I guess...
Again, this is what I was thinking about, nothing here is guaranteed, I just thought I would throw the idea out there!
Theory 1: After a bit of thinking, I was positing about how we can currently "Downgrade" our Macs by downloading an older, purchased version of OS X from the App Store. As we all know with iOS devices, Apple refuses to let us downgrade to an older OS. Maybe this is their way of implementing this in macOS.
Theory 2: The Hackintosh community. Sure you can still download the Sierra installer to your Mac and then use it to install on Hackintoshes, but with Apple not allowing this to stay in purchases, it forces a Hackintosher to come up with a different way to download the file. If they want it, they will get it, but not from Apple I guess...
Again, this is what I was thinking about, nothing here is guaranteed, I just thought I would throw the idea out there!
tarasis
macrumors 6502a
On one machine it is missing from the Purchases list (machine running an earlier GM which I failed to update to the last one and now can't download the final release as the store page says "Downloaded".) My other machine which is too old for Sierra shows it in the Purchases but obviously can't download it.
Frustrating.
Frustrating.
dictoresno
macrumors 601
how can we check our current build? when I go into the about section it just says 10.12 and no version/build number
EDIT: never mind, just tapped the "10.12" and got the build to show
EDIT: never mind, just tapped the "10.12" and got the build to show
Since this is the only forum I can find on this subject, I wanted to comment regarding a recent call to Apple support regarding this.
I've been trying a few different thing in trying to get Sierra to show up in my purchase history [for completeset reasons], but nothing was working [I even got the January 1, 2000 date when I redownloaded it in a macOS Sierra install. I contacted Apple Support, and they essentially said that Apple is no longer binding Apple IDs to macOS Sierra downloads.
I find this hard to believe, but this would explain why I'm having so much trouble. I am a bit annoyed by this because how am I going to redownload Sierra after the next release when Apple historically retired their previous Mac OS pages from the app store if I needed to?
I've been trying a few different thing in trying to get Sierra to show up in my purchase history [for completeset reasons], but nothing was working [I even got the January 1, 2000 date when I redownloaded it in a macOS Sierra install. I contacted Apple Support, and they essentially said that Apple is no longer binding Apple IDs to macOS Sierra downloads.
I find this hard to believe, but this would explain why I'm having so much trouble. I am a bit annoyed by this because how am I going to redownload Sierra after the next release when Apple historically retired their previous Mac OS pages from the app store if I needed to?
MacCubed
macrumors 68000
I have all of the installer files since ML stored on my Mac Pro. I plan on keeping it that way too, someone will probably upload them online at some point.