Everything that I have tried related to El Capitan gets me to a roadblock. Why is El Capitan so special? Can I create a bootable disk for Yosemite and install that? Then upgrade to El Capitan? Can anyone help?
MacBook Pro 13", OS X 10.11
Hello,
Try downloading macOS 10.11 El Capitan from Apple’s website.
Here is the whole story.
I have sold my old MacBook Pro that was running OS X El Capitan. I followed the Apple recommended process to back up all my data, erased the Macintosh HD then selected Reinstall MacOS and followed the instructions. When I got to the Install OS X El Capitan and entered my Apple ID and password the next message that I get is "This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later." It never changes.
I did download Mac OS X El Capitan from the Apple App Store to a flash drive. I was able to open it to the InstallMacOSX.pkg but that's as far as I can go. The only os on the subject MacBook Pro is the recovery disk and I can't find a way for that to access the flash drive. Seems I'm so close but am at a dead end.
I sure hope someone can help!
Hello,
Where exactly are you downloading macOS 10.11 El Capitan from?
From the Apple App Store.
This is one of the steps in the Install OS X process.
Hey QuickPost - Have you seen the last 2 posts that I did? Can you be of any help?
Trying to reinstall El Capitan but get a message "this item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later."
