error message reinstalling el capitan?

when attempting to a clean reinstall of El Capitan an error message saying, "an error occurred in preparation..."


Posted on Jul 25, 2021 02:41 PM

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Posted on Jul 25, 2021 04:22 PM

Hi jbtrOut,

Welcome to the Apple Community.


Wondering which version of El Capitan you tried to reinstall.

I understand security updates were made after the original version.


There's a discussion thread with installation steps for El Capitan:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252882776


Hope this helps :)


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