The greater value for money story that Apple likes to tell customers is not borne out by my experience. Really not satisfactory that Apple can't produce newer operating systems that run properly on machines that are 4 years old. I have a bootable Mojave installer, but that consistently leaves the iMac hard drive with overallocation errors that, in the six months I've been trying to fix this, have led to hard disk corruption problems in the end. So now I'm on to your last suggestion, Internet Recovery and attempting to put Sierra on it. Both attempts resulted in the pictured error message towards the end of the process. I tried downloading the High Sierra installer from my iMac with the turgid Big Sur installation. In any case I'm puzzled why they wouldn't permit the downloading of an older OS and then run a script that blocks you from installing it on a new machine if you tried to do that by mistake. If Apple OS installer files were still disk images instead of apps that run scripts, this wouldn't be an issue. It's also bizarre that you can't use a newer Mac to help fix an older one. Would have been helpful if Apple's error message said that instead of 'not available'. ![]() ![]() Thanks for that pointer about not being able to download an older version.
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