MacOS 10.8 Mountain Lion can't connect to external services (App Store, iLok, Avid, etc)

You may Not be 'stuck' at 10.8.5.

Make a full backup before you begin.

Your Mac has multiple drive bays. Install a very similar system on another drive. Then Upgrade the macOS on that drive (carrying pro tools along) to 10.9 Mavericks, then apply all software updates and you should get Safari 9.

I am glad you found a solution that worked for you. But google Chrome is NOT the magic in that solution.

The only problem Google Chrome uniquely solves is, "how can I beat the stuffing out of my computer, and use up all its resources, doing what other Browsers do easily."

The 'magic' hidden inside your solution is that the downloads for 10.11 El Captain and Sierra do not require an encrypted connection to download then. Once you get beyond 10.11 El Capitan, encrypted connections work again and you can make httpS:// connections to go anywhere.

Google Chrome is NOT required to get that 'magic', and is a huge distraction as well as a huge resource hog.

thanks, I just faced non-conntected problem for my mid 2013 MacBook Air with mountain lion os after reset it but all fixed it with firebox browser to let me go support.apple.com website and download the MacOS Sierra. ps. the important step is to click the installer from application

• • I have this same issue. I have a Macbook Pro. The password is long lost so I used the disk utility to wipe and then install the OS (Mountain Lion 10.8.5). This went just fine. I cannot open the the App store. I was able to install an older Chrome version. I went to run a speedtest and although location services are on, and it finds my city and sets the time correctly, the oookla site says my time is wrong. I think more accuratly the cert is old. I found this article and used the direct links to download the image to start updaing the OS. I believe it can get to Sierra. I download any of these:
  • Sierra 10.12
  • El Capitan 10.11
  • Yosemite 10.10
  • Mountain Lion 10.8
  • Lion 10.7

I started with Yosemite, and downloaded it and ran it, it say it installed succesfully, it doesn't ask for a reboot, but after a reboot it's still 10.8.5. I downloaded all of them one at a time and ran them, they each show 'completed succesfully', but it did not actually update.

Thoughts, or what can I do here?

Use a browser and download directly from the links in that article. Your MacOS is probably too old to use the Mac App Store reliably.

So I have Mac OS lion how do I get the most recent update because I’m suffering over here😭

My issue was the fact that I couldn’t even go to support.apple.com to get to those links you mentioned. And after searching and searching for those links and not being able to find them that’s when I used google chrome just to be able to visit support.apple.com to click on the MacOS links.

if there are direct links to the installation packages for the different MacOS please post them for future reference

Regards

Hi, thank you for your post. I'm not able to download Firefox legacy because when i do it, it says ''can't opened because it is from an unidentified developers". I'm also trying to figure out how Can I download another software because I can't get acces to app store and apple support and many other website... What link did you use to download Firefox Legacy? I used parrotgeek.

Thanks for your help

THANK YOU - THANK YOU

I had the same problem when I wiped the SSD Ext HD on my 2012 Mac mini. A big thank you to those who provided the solutions as I would have wasted more hours trying to figure it all out. I guess I am lucky that Apple still have the OS's available. I have gone from Mountain Lion to Catalina as I had before.

when running 10.8.5, you should be attempting to get your updates through

 menu > software update

Use the Mac App Store to look for upgrades.

Is your system Time correct within five minutes?

http://time.is

Check the post I just made, might help ya out

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