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.
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!
This just happened to me and I found out that all I had to do was connect my Mac to an internet connection and then it worked after I restarted it
OMG, this actually worked!
Thank you!!
thanks so much! works like magic!
The date fix worked!! Thank you! You are a lifesaver!! 😎
Same thing happened to me. But later I realized that my Mac was not connect to the internet. Check the right upper corner, internet status. After reconnecting to the internet, reinstall started.
Check to see if you have wifi connection. You have probably deleted the wifi passwords :-)
Almost a year later and this still helped me! Thanks a lot mate!!
currently running the old version and want to upgrade macOS Hight Sierra.
No, this happens even when the image is already downloaded.
Software has often had to "phone home" to be verified upon reinstall. Just be glad we've gone beyond the days of special dongles.
"Recovery server could not be contacted" Error Message
