Q: El Capitan?

Upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support

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The link in the first bullet point will take to you to the App Store download.

You can try to get El Capitan from this link:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1147835434?mt=12

It should open the Mac App Store App to the El Capitan Download Page hopefully.

With the normal search in the store app I didn't get any results for el capitan, but this link worked, thank you!

That link won't work on macs running anything past Mavericks. Now that Sierra is up all links to El Capitan have been removed. What chowderhead at Apple came up with that stupid business practice, anyway?

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That link won't work on macs running anything past Mavericks. Now that Sierra is up all links to El Capitan have been removed. What chowderhead at Apple came up with that stupid business practice, anyway?

I'm running Sierra, and the link opens up the el Capitan Download page in the Mac App Store just fine.

Did you try the method I posted? I did it again just now and had no trouble getting the El Capitan, App Store download to appear from within El Capitan.

Yes, I tried it. IT DOESN'T WORK. Did you try to download El Capitan?

Try resetting the App Store and Clearing Cookies.

Reset       Learned from Old Toad

The link works.  

Whether you can then download and install it will be determined by your current OS and whether or not your computer supports Sierra.

As explained in the first paragraph there.

If your computer cannot support Sierra, but is running anything below El Capitan it should still work.

If your computer can run Sierra then it will not work unless you are running Snow Leopard.

Anything else can update directly to Sierra without needing El Capitan.

If your computer can run Sierra, there's no reason to run El Capitan.

If you really really needed to install El Capitan, you had en entire year to do so. Why would you wait until a new Os is released to decide you want to install El Capitan.

Even if at some point in the year you are not ready to install a particular OSx version, its always a good idea to initialize the download so it gets registered to your Apple ID and can later be obtained from the Purchased section of the Mac App Store when you do need it.

Sadly that does notwork if you have a mac that could upgrade to Sierra. I don't want to do that yet, I need to go to El Capitan but since I was unable to download for months due to Internet issues I never got it so it's not avail. to me any more.

The reasn to wait is that I only upgrade when something that is mission critical requires the new opeerating system. And no, I did not try to download El Capitan until I needed it, about 2 months ag, but I was never able to get it to finish and it does not show up in my purchased items.

Okay, I tried today from a partition I have Yosemite on. I deliberately didn't login to the App Store to see what it would do. When I clicked the Get button, the App Store told me, This version of El Capitan cannot be used on this computer. Which made no sense since I'm using El Capitan right now.

But what I think it meant was that it recognized my model Mac, and was expecting me to be using the original OS this Mac Pro came with - Snow Leopard - before it would allow me to download that version of El Capitan.