Is there a combo updater available for 12.6.2?

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Is there a combo updater available for 12.6.2?

For a couple of weeks I have been trying to update from MacOS Monterey 12.6.1 to 12.6.2. This is on a (new) 14inch MacBook Pro that I bought in December. The update always fails during downloading. I don't have any problems with my internet connection on other downloads - it just seems to impact this system update. I know that in the past there used to be a page where one could download standalone updates but that seems to have long gone.

Would it be worth trying to reinstall the OS from the recovery partition? I guess that could be flaky as well.

I know that I could upgrade the whole system to Ventura but I have another Mac (an older Intel iMac) which I'd probably prefer not to update at the moment as I have rather a lot of work on.

Any other suggestions?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Jan 13, 2023 4:14 AM

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Barney-15E

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Jan 13, 2023 4:34 AM in response to StephenJG

Apple got rid of the combo updates quite a few years ago.

or you could just download the full installer for 12.6.2 and reinstall macOS.

I believe that version is here: How to download macOS - Apple Support

if not, you can also use terminal

softwareupdate ––fetch-full-installer ––full-installer-version 12.6.2

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PRP_53

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Jan 13, 2023 5:01 AM in response to StephenJG

Would begin by using the previous suggestion posted above

Fall Back position could be " reinstall the OS from the recovery partition " and in theory should pull the latest Full Version available.

The really caveat is, this specific computer may also Qualify for the Ventura macOS 13 upgrade .

That may in fact what gets downloaded instead of Monterey 12.6.2

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StephenJG Author

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Jan 13, 2023 8:47 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thanks Barney. I went the terminal route and that downloaded the full installer which ran perfectly so that I'm now on 12.6.2.

I'd forgotten the softwareupdate command which I used to use a lot years ago when updating was a bit less automatic and I use to run scripts to do things on my schedule.

Thanks also to P.Philips - as I said I will update both machines to Ventura in the near future, but don't want to do it just now.

Stephen

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Jan 25, 2023 3:22 AM in response to StephenJG

I just wanted to ask the same question for 12.6.3, but thanks to the answer of @Barney-15E, I will try to install it via the App Store.

And I have the same problems now as you described in your post!

We'll see if this way will function.

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