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silver90901

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Hello everyone

I'm new to the forum and to the Mac OS overall.

My 11 year old son was gifted a Mac Book Air recently. I believe its a 2012 model , A1465.

Specs are I7, 8 GB Ram and 256 SSD.

It is currently running OS X 10.7.5. All my attempts to upgrade the OS to El Capitan have failed since in the App Store after the download a remark says "An Error Has Occured"

When I try to upgrade using the installer for OS X 10.8.5, after a few minutes it says "An error has occured during the preparation of your upgrade please try again"

If someone would be kind enough to put down a short guide in a few steps I would really be grateful

Any help welcome here!

Thanks for taking the time

Cheers!
 
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