What does this mean? I’m trying to reinstall macOS High Sierra! Can’t get past this error message “the recovery server could not be contacted”
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Solved.
In my case I was trying to do a re-install of the OS form the startup utilities and kept getting this error.
The trick was to set the clock. Start the Terminal app from utilities to get a bash terminal. Type `date` to display the current date/time. In my case it was set to January 1st. I remember it was common with Windows Update to fail to update your system if the system clock was not "close" to the correct time.
Set the date with:
date 1114125317
(this example sets the date to November 14th, 12:53 2017)
Re-run the recover OS option and it should work.
This actually fixed the issue immediately.
This worked for me! Thank you very much.
This worked perfectly. Thanks so much!
When I go to terminal all it has is:
-bash-3.2#
What do I do?
You are brilliant. No idea how you figured this out, but it worked. Caveat: It only worked when I used UTC date/time (not my local date/time), thanks to the advice of another poster.
iMac couldn’t restore because the recovery server can not be reach
I have the exact same problem , did you find any solutions?
😕
No thanks
I solved the problem .
Thanks APPLE
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:23 AM Apple Support Communities Updates <
can you tell me how did you solved it?
thanks a lot, i' ll try it!
Brilliant. Thank you.
Thanks a lot, its work now
I've downloaded several laptops with different OS versions all in a blazing speed, in fact it's been the faster downloads of any update i've ever had across all of them. I smell scapegoat.
This fixed it for me.
Thank you so much .. Was able to get my Mac OS reinstalled :)
"Recovery server could not be contacted" Error Message
