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ojrmusem Author

Level 1

4 points

OSX Mavericks - "An Error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."

I checked and I do have the full Install OS X Mavericks.app - 5.31 GB on my HD under the Applications folder. Running a late 2011 iMAC with 12GB RAM,quad core, etc. I've downloaded the program several times, delete the old file and redownloaded and then attempted to install, but keep getting stuck at this point. Has anyone defeated this error yet?

Thanks!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:37 PM

80 replies

Truda_0

Level 1

4 points

Sep 11, 2016 8:41 PM in response to ojrmusem

Same problem here. The date and time fix didn't work for me.

I have an old macbook mid2011 that I need to run and I can't do a clean install because of this error. I am trying with a bootable drive with mavericks , that I have always used with other macs, and nothing. I even tried to change the HDD, formatted it, and I didn't work either.

Don't really know what to do here anymore. Help please.

thnks

Eric Root

Level 10

684,603 points

Sep 12, 2016 7:40 AM in response to Truda_0

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

Have you tried booting into the Recovery Partition and reinstalling the OS?

Aryan191

Level 1

8 points

Dec 9, 2016 10:23 PM in response to ojrmusem

My keyboard isn't connecting now plus this stupid read error what to do?

Aryan191

Level 1

8 points

Dec 9, 2016 10:27 PM in response to ojrmusem

My keyboard isn't connecting plus this stupid read error

Dec 8, 2017 4:06 AM in response to Khalifa saqer

It's not wor

OSX Mavericks - "An Error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."