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Q: Trying to restore to Mavericks factory settings, it downloads Yosemite

Hi everybody,

I am having a problem in restoring my Macbook Pro to factory settings.

 

I currently have Mavericks installed, I have followed the standard procedure to do a factory settings reset. I have erased my HD first, but when I click on reinstall OSX, it downloads Yosemite instead of Mavericks (and that is a problem for me, since part of the software I use still don't work on Yosemite).

 

I signed up to the Yosemite beta program, I tested it just one day then I had to go back to Mavericks using Time Machine for that reason.

Maybe that's the problem? There is no way to reinstall Mavericks instead of Yosemite?

 

Thanks for your precious help,

Emanuele

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Sep 11, 2014 1:43 AM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 19, 2014 2:21 PM in response to Justice7
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:21 PM in response to Justice7

    This probably indicates on how Apple servers are handling Internet Recovery. I have seen similar behavior when a pool of servers is behind a set of Load Balancers and one server has gone "rogue", compared to others, so there is 95% expected results but 5% are plain "bizarre". And LBs can implement client-stickiness which is hard  to reproduce in a development setup.

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