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I had to reformat and reload my OS. I managed to download and reinstall Yosemite which I had previously purchased from the app store, but now I am stuck trying to find El Capitan. This has been removed from the app store two days ago when they made Sierra available. I used to have El Capitan installed, which I believe was a free upgrade from Yosemite, so I know it worked on my system. I cannot upgrade to Sierra because my iMac is 2007 and Sierra is not supported on systems older than 2009.


I did find several El Capitan updates on the net, but they will not install unless I have the base El Capitan OS installed first. So, is there any place I can get either a fresh copy of El Capitan, or an upgrade package from Yosemite to El Capitan?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), mid-2007, 24-inch

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 6:57 AM

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User profile for user: Kurt Lang
Kurt Lang
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Sep 22, 2016 9:47 AM in response to pcbjr

Yes, it's really just the same, last point release of El Capitan.


There's an area of these forums called the Lounge, and is accessible to anyone level 6 or higher. We had a discussion about whether or not El Capitan would disappear entirely upon Sierra's release, as Yosemite and Mavericks did with each newer OS release.


One of our members thought, no. The reasoning being that El Capitan, Yosemite and Mavericks all ran on the same Macs supported by Mountain Lion. So there was no reason to keep Yosemite or Mavericks since Apple considers them just older, unnecessary versions.


Sierra was different that it was the first release since Mountain Lion that cut off some older models. If you removed El Capitan completely, that would leave users who's Macs weren't supported in Sierra to have no way to upgrade past Mountain Lion, but could have otherwise installed El Capitan.


It's actually noted at the top of the linked page that it's for either:


OS X El Capitan remains available for Mac computers that can't upgrade to macOS Sierra, or that need to upgrade to El Capitan first.

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