Where can I find the macOS Sequoia for download?

"Apple says a known problem wait till later in the week seems the. Release is 1/2 baked to me"

Absolutely incorrect. Not true no matter who told you this.

Went to Sequoia two days after it was released and everything is working great.

The Full Installer Application of Sequoia macOS 15 is about 14.54 GB in size.

Just downloaded it from Apple outside the the Software Update Applet

Suggest you make sure the computer has at 50 GB or more of Empty Space

FWIW, I installed Sequoia on three different Macs; iMac M3, MacBook Air M1, iMac Pro through Software Update without any issue. Other contributors here reported no issues either. If you are having an issue it's a problem local to your Mac.

There are times, like I'm facing now, that the Mac needs to be reinstalled from scratch to resolve annoying little problems that defy prescribed solutions. What I do, and there may be other ways to do it, is to download the installer from the App Store. When the download is complete, I copy the "Install macOS Sequoia" file to an external drive and delete the downloaded copy in the Applications folder. Then I use a utility that I found here: https://macdaddy.io/install-disk-creator/ that creates bootable install media (flash drive or other). Erase the drive and install a clean copy of Sequoia. Requires reinstallation and activation of all of my apps, which is a real pain, but results in a better operating environment for me. I do this every 2 years or so. Works for me. Hope this helps.

lkrupp wrote:

For what it's worth I haven’t had the need to reinstall macOS since 2013. That’s 11 years. I don’t know what your problems are but the voodoo incantations of clean installs is long gone.

I think I had to do it once with Mac OS X. I also gave up clean installs ages ago.

lkrupp wrote:

For what it's worth I haven’t had the need to reinstall macOS since 2013. That’s 11 years. I don’t know what your problems are but the voodoo incantations of clean installs is long gone.

then

IdrisSeabright wrote:

I think I had to do it once with Mac OS X. I also gave up clean installs ages ago.

I haven't had do to a clean install in over 18 years and I've migrated to 6 different Mac's during that time.

Remember the days of System 9 when extensions had to be loaded in a certain order before they all work? There was even a very popular app called Conflict Catcher that tried to sort everything out beforehand to avoid issues.

Third party apps, extensions, enhancers, anti-virus have always been the biggest cause of issues for users. Some developers try to get around Apple’s security protections to get their little jewels to work, often with disastrous results for inexperienced users.

lkrupp wrote:

Remember the days of System 9 when extensions had to be loaded in a certain order before they all work? There was even a very popular app called Conflict Catcher that tried to sort everything out beforehand to avoid issues.

Oh, wow! Yes. Those were the days. Conflict Catcher was a lifesaver. Before that, you had to disable half, test, and so forth. It took forever.

Hello,

I went through such issues with an iMac Intel 2020.

Several things in my case could prevent the install of most recent macoses on such hardware.

First, intensive use of a Fusion Drive can bring to failing SSD just after two years (S.M.A.R.T. status failing due to too much swapping) then no more macos update is possible.

You need to break the Fusion Drive if you want to update an iMac with failing Fusion SSD. It makes it very difficult to install recent macoses.

APFS is mandatory with recent macoses but was not supported yet under the iMac preinstalled macos, so it can be a hard time to manage an installation without installing first a HFS+ compatible macOS.

Also, recent macoses do not work properly without an SSD, it makes them slow and it increases the risk of disk issues.

An installed macOS 13 is required prior to the Sequoia installation but the internet recovery doesn’t seem to take this into account, probably depending on the last once installed program (maybe memorized in PRAM?). In my case it took days before internet recovery starts under Mojave. Then I needed to update to at least 10.13 in order to be able to install 10.15.

I’d say that both the migration of the macOS File System and the CPU was quite a challenge for Apple (reminder of PowerPC to Intel by the way) and that there are some missing «intelligence» which could have eased users’ life.

zslg01 wrote:

This roll out has the flavor of the Dallas defense last night.

Nothing is that bad.

Try while in Safe Mode.

Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

Why do you say that?

That is the App Store link.

Never mind. Wrong thread.

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