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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 With AirPlay 2 Multi-Room Audio Support for iTunes

I can't get the update to install and I have no idea why.

Late 27" 2013 iMac.

Current version 10.13.5

It downloads okay and appears to install, but the iMac goes into restart mode and it just freezes with the restart bar about 3mm in and then does nothing.

I have to power off and on and it still appears in my app store as an update.

Not a scooby doo what to do.
 
And it has finally been updated...

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davidlv said:
Yah, it has been updated from the older 10.13.5 version, but it still doesn't point to a full installer you can download and then use to make a USB bootable disk.
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Well it does for me. I have been able to make a bootable usb installer for 10.13.6 now.

Maybe you can try again.
 
Hooray! Applying the Combo Updater got me into a working state, and I have no post-installation issues either. Maybe Apple should pull the delta updater only, as that seems to be a frequent cause of trouble.
 
tywebb13 said:
Well it does for me. I have been able to make a bootable usb installer for 10.13.6 now.
Maybe you can try again.
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Great that it worked for you. I get an "Open" menu rather than the usual Download and install option.
That "Open" menu is actually"https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?l=en&mt=12".
I tried that; it started the install process, but it would not accept a "command q" Quit command and went through the entire 45 minute install, only to not leave a usable installer, and it installed all those "not really needed" fonts again.
That was definitely not the same download the full installer process I saw for 10.13.5 or prior versions.
Maybe Tywebb13 can post a link to the installer he saw, if possible.
 
davidlv said:
Great that it worked for you. I get an "Open" menu rather than the usual Download and install option.
That "Open" menu is actually"https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?l=en&mt=12".
I tried that; it started the install process, but it would not accept a "command q" Quit command and went through the entire 45 minute install, only to not leave a usable installer, and it installed all those "not really needed" fonts again.
That was definitely not the same download the full installer process I saw for 10.13.5 or prior versions.
Maybe Tywebb13 can post a link to the installer he saw, if possible.
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Well that's pretty much the link you gave, although you seem to have the Japanese version.

Here is the US version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?l=en&mt=12

If you want to make a bootable USB, quit the installer after it downloads. Don't let it install.

Then format an 8 or 16GB USB as HFS+ Journaled, call it Untitled and then run this in Terminal:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
 
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tywebb13 said:
Well that's pretty much the think you gave, although you seem to have the Japanese version.

Here is the US version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?l=en&mt=12

If you want to make a bootable USB, quit the installer after it downloads. Don't let it install.

Then format an 8 or 16GB USB as HFS+ Journaled, call it Untitled and then run this in Terminal:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
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Thanks for taking the time and trouble to reply Tywebb13. The issue I saw (yes, it was a Japanese system) was that it did not present a place to quit the installation process. Maybe it did and I missed it, during a toilet break?
Will try it again later
:cool:Edit: The reason I was having problems downloading that new 10.13.6 installer was really quite simple, on reflection. I had a copy of the 10.13.5 installer on an internal disk, and the App store detected that and only gave me an "Open" choice until I deleted that copy and rebooted the MacPro.
Then the App Store menu changed to "Download" and I was able to quit the installer once the download was finished. :rolleyes:Duh:oops:
 
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tywebb13 said:
Well that's pretty much the think you gave, although you seem to have the Japanese version.

Here is the US version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?l=en&mt=12

If you want to make a bootable USB, quit the installer after it downloads. Don't let it install.

Then format an 8 or 16GB USB as HFS+ Journaled, call it Untitled and then run this in Terminal:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
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I agree with the post, which states that full installer (10.13.6) is not available in MAS as of yet. Proof of concept:
Screen Shot 2018-07-14 at 10.18.16.png
 
imasterus said:
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I agree with the post, which states that full installer (10.13.6) is not available in MAS as of yet. Proof of concept:
View attachment 770548
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I don't agree.

Anyway after I got the full installer of 10.13.6 I checked the actual version with the following command in terminal before making the bootable usb:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleShortVersionString" /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Info.plist

The result was

13.6.02

so it IS the real 10.13.6 installer.
 
tywebb13 said:
I don't agree.

Anyway after I got the full installer of 10.13.6 I checked the actual version with the following command in terminal before making the bootable usb:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleShortVersionString" /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Info.plist

The result was

13.6.02

so it IS the real 10.13.6 installer.
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It is not about the version of macOS High Sierra per se (which is 10.13.6 as per description in MAS), but about the size of the full installer in MAS. As you could see in my screenshot, the size of the full installer is 15 MB.
 
imasterus said:
It is not about the version of macOS High Sierra per se (which is 10.13.6 as per description in MAS), but about the size of the full installer in MAS. As you could see in my screenshot, the size of the full installer is 15 MB.
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It seems that your download was incomplete.

I ran this in terminal showing the size of my download:

du -sh /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app

and this was the result:

4.9G /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app

So clearly I got the complete full installer. Furthermore I tested the bootable usb I subsequently made. It is functioning as expected.

If it isn't working for you via the mac app store as expected and you want to force a download of the full installer of 10.13.6 bypassing the mac app store altogether you can use the python script installinstallmacos.py as follows within Terminal instead.



First download and install python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ if you don't have python already.



Then make a folder python in your /Documents folder



Now you may save the following script in your python folder called installinstallmacos.py:



https://github.com/munki/macadmin-scripts/blob/master/installinstallmacos.py



And to run it you can use



sudo python /Users/YOUR USERNAME/Documents/python/installinstallmacos.py



Type your password and then it downloads some stuff and gives you some options:



Downloading https://swscan.apple.com/content/ca...n-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog...

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...rhtc77wsyme21xhi8f0x/InstallAssistantAuto.smd...

Downloading https://swdist.apple.com/content/do...2crhtc77wsyme21xhi8f0x/091-82771.English.dist...

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallAssistantAuto.smd...

Downloading https://swdist.apple.com/content/do...t7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/091-94326.English.dist...

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...dr8nbldf7rve8sk7ycio/InstallAssistantAuto.smd...

Downloading https://swdist.apple.com/content/do...gzdr8nbldf7rve8sk7ycio/091-94340.English.dist...

# ProductID Version Build Title

1 091-82771 10.13.5 17F66a Install macOS High Sierra Beta

2 091-94326 10.13.6 17G65 macOS High Sierra

3 091-94340 10.14 18A326h macOS Mojave Beta


Choose a product to download (1-3):


So the one you want is 2 so type 2 and press return and something like the following will happen and will download each component of the installer and then create the full installer inside a sparseimage:


Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallESDDmg.pkg...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 4503M 100 4503M 0 0 1930k 0 0:39:49 0:39:49 --:--:-- 2097k

Downloading https://swdist.apple.com/content/do...82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallESDDmg.pkm...

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...geqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/AppleDiagnostics.chunklist...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 328 100 328 0 0 4940 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4969

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallAssistantAuto.pkg...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 11.2M 100 11.2M 0 0 2064k 0 0:00:05 0:00:05 --:--:-- 2084k

Downloading https://swdist.apple.com/content/do...zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallAssistantAuto.pkm...

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...gt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/RecoveryHDMetaDmg.pkg...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 465M 100 465M 0 0 2070k 0 0:03:50 0:03:50 --:--:-- 1993k

Downloading https://swdist.apple.com/content/do...gt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/RecoveryHDMetaDmg.pkm...

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...gwa82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/BaseSystem.dmg...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 463M 100 463M 0 0 2077k 0 0:03:48 0:03:48 --:--:-- 2097k

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...wa82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/MajorOSInfo.pkg...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 2455k 100 2455k 0 0 1909k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 1909k

Downloading https://swdist.apple.com/content/do...wa82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/MajorOSInfo.pkm...

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...bgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/BaseSystem.chunklist...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 1984 100 1984 0 0 52396 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 53621

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallInfo.plist...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 1584 100 1584 0 0 46089 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 46588

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallESDDmg.chunklist...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 16528 100 16528 0 0 235k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 237k

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...gwa82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/OSInstall.mpkg...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 658k 100 658k 0 0 1811k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1813k

Downloading http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...bgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/AppleDiagnostics.dmg...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

100 2798k 100 2798k 0 0 2036k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 2035k

Making empty sparseimage...

installer: Package name is macOS High Sierra

installer: Installing at base path /private/tmp/dmg.E7JsEI

installer: The install was successful.

Product downloaded and installed to /Users/YOUR USERNAME/Install_macOS_10.13.6-17G65.sparseimage


You can then open Install_macOS_10.13.6-17G65.sparseimage and inside you will see an applications folder in which you will see the full installer. You can then move this into your /Applications folder and make the bootable usb as I described before.

PS. For those on mojave, they might like to know too that this method allows you to download high sierra within mojave. The Mac App Store in mojave won't let you do this - so this workaround is pretty cool for those on mojave who want to download high sierra.
 
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Spendlove said:
I can't get the update to install and I have no idea why.

Late 27" 2013 iMac.

Current version 10.13.5

It downloads okay and appears to install, but the iMac goes into restart mode and it just freezes with the restart bar about 3mm in and then does nothing.

I have to power off and on and it still appears in my app store as an update.

Not a scooby doo what to do.
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Apple Support were not any help at all as the chat app simply kept crashing. I got as far as using the disk utility (it appears the update has corrupted by main Mac drive) using Command & R I can access the restore and disk repair section within boot up but I have been warned I will lose my saved music, documents and photos of the kids!

Sooo..... Apple Time Capsule has been purchased, hoping to save the important files offline, repair the drive, install MacOS from scratch and see if that fixes anything.

First time this has happened so very nervous of buggering it all up or losing the very important files/wiping my Windows partition bootcamp because I don't have a copy of Windows to reinstall!

First ever problem with an Apple Update and a bit of a computer novice soooooo we will see how it goes, cross your fingers for me.
 
10.13.6 has an issue with 32-bit Adobe - installed 10.13.6 and Photoshop stopped working. Got a message saying that my CS6 serial number (which has been working for some years) was invalid.

Checked with my older MacBook (ElCapitan OS), first deleting and then reinstalling CS6 with my serial number and it works fine.

This has happened to many CS6 owners - seems to be connected with upgrading Mac OS, but also happens with Windows - (see Adobe forums) - and serial numbers are being declared invalid when they are in fact genuine and registered with Adobe. If you have CS6 and don't need 10.13.6 then I suggest you don't upgrade.
 
tkermit said:
Might be a while. Mojave includes iTunes 12.9, as far as I'm aware. Kind of fascinating that the initial release of iTunes 12 – almost four years ago – predates the launch of Apple Music.
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4 years and counting :(
 
davidlv said:
Accessing this URL, I don't see a link to download the "installinstallmacos.py" file.
Should I copy the code and use Python Launcher to save the code as that file? (complete newbie to Python)
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I used BBedit to save it as a .py file
 
RyanXM said:
The build number is still the same as before the new MBPs were released. They more than likely contain a custom build of 10.13.6. Current MAS version is 17G65.
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There is a new full installer of 10.13.6 available for the 2018 mbps build 17G2112 as reported by installinstallmacos.py.

GetnewHSfor2018mbp.png


So this could be used to restore the system on the new macbook pros.

Downloading now. Will make bootable usb later.

Just note that the boot process is different for this mbp due to the T2 chip which is more restrictive on letting things like a bootable usb to work. They will still work but there is something else you need to do in order for it to work on these new machines.

If you want to boot from a bootable usb you have to enable external booting. To do this startup with command R first. Then in the menu bar choose Utilities > Startup Security Utility, enter password and click allow booting from external media.
 
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Also unless there is going to be betas for 10.13.7 then we need to update installinstallmacos.py itself.

So I opened it up with BBedit and replaced the code 10.13seed with 10.14seed-10.14 i.e., change this code:

DEFAULT_SUCATALOG = (
'https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/'
'index-10.13seed-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9'
'-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog')

to

DEFAULT_SUCATALOG = (
'https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/'
'index-10.14seed-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9'
'-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog')

and then saved it as a second copy of installinstallmacos.py which I called installinstallmacos2.py

and if I want to run it I do it like this instead:

sudo python /Users/YOUR USERNAME/Documents/python/installinstallmacos2.py

and the options are less because it doesn't have the 10.13.5 beta build 14F66a

However I don't mind. It needs to be updated like this to be sure to get the builds available from the mojave beta seeds instead of the high sierra beta seeds as they are likely to end soon assuming there won't be a 10.13.7.
 
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ArthurCrown said:
10.13.6 has an issue with 32-bit Adobe - installed 10.13.6 and Photoshop stopped working. Got a message saying that my CS6 serial number (which has been working for some years) was invalid.

Checked with my older MacBook (ElCapitan OS), first deleting and then reinstalling CS6 with my serial number and it works fine.

This has happened to many CS6 owners - seems to be connected with upgrading Mac OS, but also happens with Windows - (see Adobe forums) - and serial numbers are being declared invalid when they are in fact genuine and registered with Adobe. If you have CS6 and don't need 10.13.6 then I suggest you don't upgrade.
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What about CC2017?
 
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