OS X could not be installed on your computer
I need help with this issue. OS X El Capitan can’t be installed on my MacBook Air (Early 2015), please see attached photo.
MacBook
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I need help with this issue. OS X El Capitan can’t be installed on my MacBook Air (Early 2015), please see attached photo.
MacBook
I never asked you to restart your mac after changing the date. After changing the date and it is successful, quit Terminal and then click on Install OSX from the Utilities panel.
If you are still getting the error then it looks like Apple are stopping you as this method was working
a few weeks ago. Have look through the El Capitan community for other posts the same as yours.
Make sure your mac is connected to your router using a cabled connection rather than WiFi,
if you are using WiFi it may be resetting the date to today.
I never asked you to restart your mac after changing the date. After changing the date and it is successful, quit Terminal and then click on Install OSX from the Utilities panel.
If you are still getting the error then it looks like Apple are stopping you as this method was working
a few weeks ago. Have look through the El Capitan community for other posts the same as yours.
Make sure your mac is connected to your router using a cabled connection rather than WiFi,
if you are using WiFi it may be resetting the date to today.
The certificates for several of Apples OS's expired in October 2019, Apple have been very poor at getting these updated on their Recovery Servers with valid certificates. This may be the problem you are experiencing.
Try this workaround, we are going to set the time and date on your mac to a date previous to the expiry date of the certificates.
Boot to your Recovery HD, click on Utilities in the menubar select Terminal.
Enter a new date, for example or just copy and paste
sudo date -u 011421002018
press Return
enter your password
press Return
Now try downloading the OS.
If this works then when the OS is installed and booted up you can Open System Preferences> Date & Time
and reset the time back to today.
Hi!
Thank you so much for your recommendation. It really works! Especially, with the use of cable connection. And when I open my Mac and clicked "install MacOS" (Catalina) it continues to install with no errors at all.
Now my Mac is good as new again.
More power!
Hi,
I tried using the code but sudo command is not found.
Ok it's difficult to keep up with which OS's accept the sudo command or not, in this case just
enter
date -u 011421002018
press Return
See if it works now.
The command worked. But when I restarted my Mac, the OS X still can't install :(
I will try and if it works, i'll update you. Thank you very much!
OS X could not be installed on your computer