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I have several Macs to update. Where can I find the macOS installers and updates for 10.14 and 10.15 that I can download onto thumbdrives?
iMac 21.5" 4K, macOS 10.14
Patience -- https://support.apple.com/downloads/macos now lists 15.1 macOS Update. After almost 20 years of Mac OS X under my belt I should have remembered that Apple has a slow updating of its public site for OS downloads. But eventually..
I was hoping for 10.15 or at least 10.15.1 to be on https://support.apple.com/downloads/macos but neither is there. I had downloaded 10.15 but not installed it yet over 10.14.6. Besides my iMac I help friends and neighbors keep their iMacs and MacBook Pros updated and wanted to create a USB thumb drive with 10.15 and subsequent updates.
In System Preferences : Software update, it will take a leap of faith, but proceed with what initially seems like an installation. It will download the full Catalina installer, tell you it is preparing to install, and with a great sigh of relief, the familiar Catalina application installer panel opens on the Desktop with the continue button. Quit this panel, and you will find the Catalina installer saved in your /Applications folder. This is the only means to acquire a full Catalina installer that I know about, and the one that I performed myself.
Then you can create a bootable USB stick (16GB) with Apple's instructions. You could also copy the Catalina installer itself to an external drive, as it will vanish after an upgrade.
Be careful - Lightroom is a 64-bit application so supposedly it will run on Catalina. But people over in the LR user group are saying that they can't get it to install because the installer is a 32-bit app.
You will need to access Catalina through the app store; I do not believe they have any Mojave installers listed any longer - unless you've downloaded it before, then it should be in your purchases. They usually withdraw any older installer (again, unless it's in your purchases).
The problem with that page is - as far as i know - that all of those are simply incremental updates, not full installers (unless Apple has changed that lately). They require the original 10.14 or whatever in order to work. Starting with Cataline - again as far as I know - the only access is through the app store. But, I've been wrong before.....
Actually I just finished the download and installation. It wasn’t there yesterday but there was a post here today with a link to it and it worked. Thanks.
Yes, the links to the installers were down for 24 hours, but they are back up now.
If it's handy, mind posting it for me?
I haven't tried this because Catalina takes forever for me to download, but try the show in finder button on the Catalina Installer while it's open maybe that will yield some luck?
Thanks a bunch!
Welcome.
That's great except that it is an update only - the full installer (10.15) is required to be installed and is never listed on those pages.
macOS installers for 10.15 ?
