Snow leopard to el capitan upgrade installs but doesn't upgrade.

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Snow leopard to el capitan upgrade installs but doesn't upgrade.

My old iMac early 2006 still functions well although over the years has got itself a bit confused. I was running el capitan OS 10.11. I deleted everything from the hard drive to do a clean installation of Snow Leopard (10.6) and then upgrade online back to El Capitan. Snow Leopard installed fine from my disc and I found El Capitan on the Apple store (5.6gb) and downloaded it.

The problem is that it runs through the installation OK in just a few minutes but fails to upgrade the system and the imac is still on 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Just to clarify that I am aware of the security issues with these old imacs and do not use it for anything personal.

Can anyone help me here please?

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Oct 10, 2023 03:12 AM

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Oct 10, 2023 07:11 AM in response to Niel

Thanks Niel,

Sorry my sausage fingers. It is an early 2009, iMac 9.1. Has been running El Capitan just fine until I messed up the hard drive.

Thanks for the advice regarding the installer, I have found it where you said in the Applications folder and as I write it appears to be loading correctly, with 30 minutes to run.

Great help, thank you very much.

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Niel

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Oct 10, 2023 06:16 AM in response to Foxinthehouse

1. An early 2006 iMac isn't capable of El Capitan.

2. If you're referring to a model which is, the dmg installer puts the full one in the Applications folder; that needs to be run as well.

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Snow leopard to el capitan upgrade installs but doesn't upgrade.

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