Mid 2009 Macbook Pro wont work properly after HD replacement
Dear community. I am in need of some
serious help.
I have a Macbook Pro from mid 2009 that was active until a month ago, when it would start crashing when started. I handed it to a friend and we found out that the issue was with the HD, which we promptly exchanged for a new one.
I have a Time Capsule and curiously couldn’t reach the last backup made in it. It only allowed me to get a back up from
2013, and so the operational system is also from that year.
When the HD was exchanged, we managed to get the latest backup from the old one, but since the OS is from 2013, many files and applications won’t work (fx. Safari, Chrome and Numbers, to name a few).
For some reason, app store says the only 2 purchased items I had are OS X Mountain Lion and Mavericks, and I can’t seem to get hold of Yosemite, which was the version I had running before this whole thing started.
I did download it from somewhere, but can’t install it due to Apple having changed the certificates. I read online I could try to change the date through Terminal and that would allow me to install it, but Terminal won’t allow me to change the date (I don’t have permission, even when I change users).
I am in a f*cked up situation where I live in Denmark, where there is no apple store to go to, and thus can’t have it fixed properly. Not to mention the Corona situation, where I can’t travel to Germany or another country that would have a Apple store to see about it.
I have no money to get a new computer, and to be honest don’t see the need to, as this is working well enough and in perfect shape - if it wasn’t for this Apple greed to force me to getting more apple stuff when they still work fine.
I need to start a Master in Architecture next year and will need a computer up and running smoothly with all the heavy softwares I am supposed to work with, as it was just before this crash, and am in need of preparing a Portfolio for the applications for next month, and I am completely trapped and in need of some serious help to go through this mess.
Could anyone please help me get my computer back up and running? I am really desperate and don’t know what else to do.
I thank you a million times for your empathy and time in advance.
