Where is a downloadable install of High Sierra? (NOT the Apple preview page, NOT the updates, but the original 10.13 OS.) Preferably not a dodgy third-party site.
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MacBook Air
Try
softwareupdate --list-full-installers --force
softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6
This ONLY works if your Mac is able to install High Sierra 10.13.6
Change the URL for the preview page so it contains macappstore instead of https, and then download it from the Mac App Store.
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No, that just takes me to another preview page, at the App store. No download link.
That address will open in the Mac App Store instead of your web browser. Click on the Download button there.
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There's no download button.
Use the Native Safari Browser for better results.
PS There is only one version of High Sierra offered by Apple and that is the last Full Version macOS 10.13.6
1) "Safari can't open the page"...when I try to reply to this on Safari. Replying now via Firefox.
2) "Native Safari browser"? I have the latest Safari available for my configuration. From Apple, so I assume it's "native."
3) I have finally located the full install for 10.13.6, but not through any direct Apple link. My Mac Air is natively capable of this OS, so I didn't need the patch utilities, just the Apple download link which doesn't seem to be directly available at Apple Support or the App Store.
So, SUCCESS at last, at least for now.
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If one is referencing the " DosDude " - that is illegal.
What one may have downloaded is riddled with who knows what.
Try
softwareupdate --list-full-installers --force
softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6
This ONLY works if your Mac is able to install High Sierra 10.13.6
ILLEGAL? No, I think not, at least not under the statutes of my state and country.
It's a legitimate Apple download link, which Apple has for some reason chosen to hide. I gather it was not hidden a little while ago, hence all the erroneous advice above. If there's any malware in the installer, it comes from Apple.
This command-line install did not work at all.
'unrecognized option' for both commands.
It may work with a later version of Terminal, but in this instance we were on 10.11, trying to get to 10.13.
" DosDude " - that is illegal and Let the Apple Lawyers and Law Courts decided this issue.
The method of Dosdude circumvents the Apple Licence Of Use.
One can be very sure the Law Offices of Apple would have a very easy win if there has not already been several wins.
As for Hidden High Sierra Download from the Apple Store - yes it is hidden. That is totally normal.
Even Big Sur macOS 11 released in November 2020 is hidden on the Apple Store.
But if one actually followed the methods outlined by more than one Contributor - it would work.
I know, I just attempted from the same Links Provided and yes can Download the Full Version 11.3.6. Though, can do nothing with it as this Computer does Not qualify for a 2017 Release of macOS . It is Too New to use High Sierra.
Same here in Mojave 10.14.6 :(
Downloading 11.3.6 someplace is irrelevant. The OS sought was 10.13. I followed ALL the suggestions offered—there were about 3. None of them worked. Presumably because they were based on out-of-date information.
If you'd followed what I said, you'd know I eventually got an installer from an actual Apple URL.
Saying "Let the Apple Lawyers and Law Courts [decide] the issue" concedes that there's no applicable statute about downloading from Apple's own URL. (Law Courts? What is this, Inn of the Middle Temple?)
I don't need Mojave myself, but THIS link took me to a 10.14 Download page: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?ls=1&mt=12
There should be a dropdown, like this. I got it in Firefox, but strangely enough not in Safari. The link took me to the Download page.
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Where is a downloadable install of macOS High Sierra?
