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I work in an office environment and administer over 20 macs. We've got a few machines that run Mavericks and a few that run Lion. Withe the release of Yosemite last week, I gather Lion is no longer supported, so I wanted to upgrade but as Yosemite hasn't been tested in our environment, I wanted to take all the machines to Mavericks, but it doesn't seem to be available. Is there anywhere that I can still download that installer?
Apple does not have full installers listed there. They are all updates; so, if you download 10.9.5, it is an update to 10.9 and you need to have 10.9 installed - which is no longer available unless it is listed under your purchases.
I really dislike having to hunt and peck for answers on a "community message board".
While I'm sure you're all really nice people, you know as much about this as I do. Why can't Apple just be clear and put out info that (it appears_ many people need to know!
I have Mavericks on my Macbook Pro natively installed. I want to put it onto my imac that has MtLion. I followed your instructions, but after the installer finished downloading, it immediately opened up to the page that asks you what language do you want. What should I do? Thank you.
If the machine came with Mavericks installed, then it was a machine specific version which will not allow you to save the installer - there is no installer window that pops up which you can quit and the installer is saved. It is a one step process: download > install. Aside from that, being a native install, you won't be able to use it on another machine (as far as I know).
Thank you for your reply. I guess I will wait until Apple decides to do the right thing and make it available.
They may do that - they suddenly made a bootable Lion USB stick available for purchase which was handy for some people. So, file feedback and ask for Mavericks (as a download or bootable stick or whatever).....
Ziatron wrote:
I tried to find a way to give feedback to the Mac App Store. There doesn't seem to be a Mac app store feedback page.
Use this for Mac OS X feedback and use this forMAS support/feedback.
27" i7 iMac (Mid 2011) refurb, OS X Yo (10.10), Mavs, ML & SL, G4 450 MP w/10.5 & 9.2.2
Use this for Mac OS X feedback and use this forMAS support/feedback.
THANKS !!
I tried to use your link, but I received a notice, “Sorry, our servers are overloaded with customer requests for Mavericks on the MAS, please try back later.” 😉
That tells you everything, then.👿
Also desperate for Mavericks. Anybody have any further info?
"If" I am able to obtain a copy of the Mavericks installer and install Mavericks successfully on an iMac that has not yet been upgraded to Mavericks, will I then be able to update it to the highest level Mavericks reached before Yosemite came out?
The word now is that you can download Mavericks from the App Store IF you had previously "purchased" and downloaded it. Otherwise, for a new user you cannot get it.
This is true as long as you're not trying to this from a Yosemite booted partition.
.... will I then be able to update it to the highest level Mavericks reached before Yosemite came out?
If you obtain an installer it will be for the latest version, no updates will be required.
Actually I just discovered that I had made a bootable Mavericks installer on a USB drive some time ago when I was upgrading a Macbook from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. So this installer will probably not have the latest version of Mavericks on it.
Also can I use this USB installer to do an upgrade install of Mavericks over Snow Leopard and not a "clean install"?
Thanks.
So this installer will probably not have the latest version of Mavericks on it.
If it's not, you can update it after it is installed.
Also can I use this USB installer to do an upgrade install of Mavericks over Snow Leopard and not a "clean install"?
Yes.
Use this to update any Mavericks installation to the latest version: OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Update (Combo)
Can I still download Mavericks?
