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rtpgyesterday at 10:46 PM4 repliesview on HN

Kinda funny how this is true but there's a line of Mac OSes that can't connect to the App Store anymore so you can't upgrade the OS without manually downloading it off of an Apple help page.

It's not the end of the world, but I've had to help more than one person walk through this process cuz they're like "I can't update the OS????"


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eleveriventoday at 10:18 AM

Yeah, it creates this weird dead zone where the machine is perfectly capable of running the newer OS, but the built-in path to get there is broken

wpmyesterday at 11:11 PM

I was a Mac admin when they pushed the change to move Updates into the Mac App Store and I hated it then. It didn't even make sense from an ill-advised "must match iOS" way, since OS updates happened in Settings.app on that platform. Just bone-headed "this will boost eNgAgEmEnT" BS.

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rcontiyesterday at 11:27 PM

And it's hard to even find the download links, and a lot of them don't work.

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zombottoday at 9:21 AM

Not being connected to the App Store is a feature, not a bug.