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OS X EL CAPITAN

I am trying to reinstall the OS X El Capitan, but It doesn't work, the systems send me a message "THIS ITEM IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE", Is there a problem with the item? If positive, When the item will be available?

Posted on May 14, 2020 5:13 AM

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May 14, 2020 9:16 PM in response to renatapingituro

Are you trying to reinstall El Capitan from Apples Recovery Servers.

Connect your mac to your router via cable rather than WiFi.


People have been having trouble reinstalling El Capitan from the recovery servers,

this work around has had some success.


Boot to your Recovery HD, click on Utilities in the menubar select Terminal.

Make sure WiFi is switched off, it can reset the date back to today.


Enter a new date, for example or just copy and paste


sudo date -u 011421002016


press Return

enter your password

press Return


If Terminal returns an error saying sudo : command not found, then try again without sudo.


Now try downloading the OS.

If this works then when the OS is installed and booted up you can Open System Preferences> Date & Time

and reset the time back to today.

OS X EL CAPITAN

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