Beware: Get a copy of High Sierra before installing Mojave!

[TokMok3]

One thing I don't understand.
If I want to proceed, as suggested, and keep a copy of the Sierra installer, I don't get from Apple, as would be logical, the final release of it but the very first one.
Should I want to install again a working Sierra system I would need to update it to the latest release.
What is the logic behind it?
Does someone know it?
Ed

If I recall, there was a time that every MacBook used to come with a usb installer or a DVD installer from the factory in the case that something need it to be fixed by reformatting and reinstalling the Operating System. Approximately 4 or 5 years ago, Apple stop including a USB installer or a DVD and the only option was to perform an internet recovery. I remember clearly that I did not had a fast internet connection, and I had to go to Kinkos and use their fast internet connection to perform a format and installation. Apple today, in their pages, provides the instructions needed to create a usb installer, 4 years ago that possibility did not existed and we had to relay in the avid users that found ways to create those usb installers, but even with that, an internet update of the OS has been need it.

Personally I believe that we should have the option to install any version of the OS that the MacBook can run and Apple should provide those links to download the software, but that option with Mojave it is been denied to the users. If you have Mojave, try to download El Capitan or Sierra if you can, you won't be able to, because those options are not available in the purchased list in the Mac Store.

Maybe I depend on a 32 bit app that has not been updated, and only El Capitan can run it, I should have the option to run that and not depend on saving copies of previous operating systems in case some day I might need it.

The problem is that as a society we have become to permissive and fanatic with corporations.

 

[EugW]

For the future . . ..

When you first download an OS X full installer it downlaods to your Applications folder.

BEFORE installing. . . create a folder on another HDD/SSD perhaps titled " OS X Installations " and within that folder create one more titled eg : " High Sierra " . . now copy the High Sierra FULL installer to that relevant folder.

I have every FULL installer plus Combos since OS X 10.4 Tiger right up to High Sierra.

Really helps at times.

I also have the install discs for 10.1 - 10.3. I can't remember if I have 10.0 though.

 

[TokMok3]

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I also have the install discs for 10.1 - 10.3. I can't remember if I have 10.0 though.

Awesome!!!

 

[mikzn]

I also have the install discs for 10.1 - 10.3. I can't remember if I have 10.0 though.

LOL - I still have the 10.0 disk

I remember buying a cube and was excited about finally using OSX

Unfortunately it was a long wait before any apps actually worked on OSX - It was dual boot and once in a while I would boot OSX and wonder what it would be like to have apps - LOL

 

[EugW]

LOL - I still have the 10.0 disk

I remember buying a cube and was excited about finally using OSX

Unfortunately it was a long wait before any apps actually worked on OSX - It was dual boot and once in a while I would boot OSX and wonder what it would be like to have apps - LOL

I refused to buy a Mac until it shipped with 10.1. My iBook 600 came dual boot OS 9/10.1, but defaulted to OS 9. I ran 10.1 95% of the time though.

I didn't really start recommending Macs though until about 10.3-10.4. I think native Office came in 10.2.

 

[ivnj]

I also have backup coppies of ten point 8,9,10,11,12,13. It takes a lot of space but its worth it.

 

[edwardlscott]

Apple support provided this link to High Sierra download link at Apple Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?ls=1&mt=12

I hope it works for you.

 

[sgw123]

My experience of this suggests that Apple have done all they can this time to stop users downgrading.

The weird thing that seems to happen with Mojave that wasn't happening before is that even if you find a link in the App Store or a direct link online - or try the restore method - you can get somewhere along the install process and then it won't install. Apple seem to have put something into Mojave to stop the downgrade. I can't remember the error message but I could download High Sierra in one of these ways, get a little along the way of installing it and then I'd get some kind of error message. I tried everything I could think of - including putting the download on a different drive.

The only way I could get High Sierra onto my Macbook Pro running Mojave was to get an installer onto a thumb drive from an external source which was, in my case, a helpful Mac repair shop.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Working for me on Mojave. Also works back on High Sierra.

https://support.apple.com/macos/high-sierra

EDIT: I successfully downloaded High Sierra from within Mojave Mac App Store.
Then rebooted and tested under High Sierra Mac App Store, which worked too.
Now tested again on Mojave and this time get the same "Cannot Connect to App Store" error.

Apple have dropped the ball.

I'm using a Windows machine right now and I'm currently using FF to download High Sierra
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1946?locale=en_GB

I don't think Apple dropped any ball.

 

[Riwam]

I'm using a Windows machine right now and I'm currently using FF to download High Sierra
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1946?locale=en_GB

I don't think Apple dropped any ball.

Your link is to 10.13.2. The link of edwardiscott , 3 posts above, is to 10.13.6, the final release of High Sierra.
Ed

 

[DeltaMac]

I'm using a Windows machine right now and I'm currently using FF to download High Sierra
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1946?locale=en_GB

I don't think Apple dropped any ball.

Also notice that 10.13.2 download that you linked is simply an update, and requires 10.13.1 to already be installed. It's NOT the full High Sierra install, and only updates a 10.13.1 system to 10.13.2
If you already have High Sierra installed, then you could download the combo 10.13.6 updater, which will update any version of High Sierra to the current version.
If you DON'T have High Sierra already installed, and want to upgrade, you still need the FULL installer.
The download links listed in several places above in this thread DO work.

 

[sgw123]

Having gone through this nonsense, unless I'm missing something ... I have a MBP 2013- I wiped it - I tried the restore, I downloaded HS through the App Store, I downloaded HS through links provided here - each time - they downloaded, and I got a few steps through the process and then I got an error along the lines of "Not supported" etc - I spent two days following the steps here among others and my wiped MBP 2013 would not load High Sierra. The only time it worked was with the thumb drive.