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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Get a terminal window, frome the recovery menu. The menu bar at the top, not the window dot in the middle. Then enter the date command and you should see some some old date at January 1st. My MBP has a battery problem and wasn’t plugged in for a while so the system date got reset.
To fix type
date 1016200017
which is October 16th 20:00 (or 8pm) 2017.
So mmddhhmiyy
all two digits.
After that recovery worked. Must have something to do with certificate validity or something maybe.
are you sure your mac has connected to the internet? please check the right top corner wifi icon.
For me it was because I had not reconnected to my wireless network. Just confirm that you are connected and you should be good to go. Check icon in upper right on the menu bar.
double check you are connected to the internet, after you wipe your drive you could lose wifi settings.
Worked AT ONCE for me and I am very grateful!
Ivar
Make sure you are connected to Wifi! It sounds silly but you have to sign in separately to your Wifi when reinstalling 🙂
Yup!! Thanks... totally worked!
I have the same problem after I wrote the date correctly. What can I do now? Please help.
check your wifi. check your wifi. check your wifi.
Reply to Jo Desmet: when setting the time in Terminal, it didn’t work for me until I set the time in UTC time zone, that this London UK.
Your awesome thanx!
Thanks for this. After I set the date then went back to do the install I got the same error but after rebooting it came up doing the Internet recovery. Cheers!!
Make sure you’re connected to WiFi and it should work
I looked everywhere. You solved it! Thank you!!!
Can someone remind me why Internet is required to reinstall the OS or recover from a catastrophic crash?!?!
Great info. Worked for me!
"Recovery server could not be contacted" Error Message
