Mac os sierra not downloading from app store

But for that, I have to download it from the app store. Instead of High Sierra, the app store offers me an upgrade to Catalina. Only the current OS is offered in the App Store.

You don't seem to understand me. You give me a link to a page with a link to High Sierra. If I click on the Download button, I am prompted to upgrade to Catalina. FWIW, that's not what happens here. For one thing the "button" is labeled "Get", not "Download". This advice is no longer correct.

It used to work. But it doesn't now. All of Apple's old installers were rendered non-functional because their certificate expired. If you visit the link on the Apple Support site that you just posted, it in turn gives you a link to the App Store, yes—but that link does not work anymore. If you click on the "Get" button, the App Store then informs you that the file is no longer available.

Jan 15, PM. Jan 15, PM in response to baritone10 In response to baritone Jan 15, PM in response to dialabrain In response to dialabrain. BTW, you are clearly accessing this from Software Update, which of course does not work and does not help for a user on a Catalina machine trying to download High Sierra in order to create a bootable drive—like me.

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The world was a great place and all was well! Then I did the steps to partition the pc system to now include the additional drive that I would put Clover on. I can still access the macOS as well as Shell, but I don't know what that does other than displaying all of the yellow text fly by.. Check if your internet is working and stable.

In this case, the download or the update will be slow and give the impression that it is stuck. Try connecting to a different internet connection to see if the download or update starts.

It will open a Finder window. Copy the contents of this folder some place safe and then delete them from their original location. Close the Mac App Store and open it again.

Active 4 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Improve this question. DaPhil DaPhil 1, 5 5 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Just to see where it goes? Actually, this helped me to solve it.

Spotlight and obviously the App Store as well found it on a USB stick that I had previously mounted but already erased. I should have followed "Have you tried turning it off and on again" That fixed it. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I see several issues with different solutions. Let's try to fix them one at a time Spotlight First you should check if your Spotlight index is current.