Where is the Mac OS installer?

The instructions for making a bootable installer say that the Mac OS X installer will be downloaded to my Applications folder. But it is not. Where is it?

How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support (CA)

My Mac has Catalina and I want to make a partition with Mojave.

Posted on Jul 5, 2022 7:55 AM

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dialabrain

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Jul 5, 2022 9:07 AM in response to alienvoord

What happened when you clicked on macOS Mojave

alienvoord Author

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Jul 5, 2022 2:33 PM in response to dialabrain

The system preferences window opened and downloaded Mac OS Mojave. When it was finished downloading it said that it could not be installed. Fine. But where is the installer?

dialabrain

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Jul 5, 2022 2:40 PM in response to alienvoord

The installer is called "Install macOS Mojave" and would be in the Applications folder.

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