Transfering osx9.9.5 system

[WEMertz]

I AM NEW TO THIS FORUM, AND I HAVE A TECHNICAL QUESTION.
I HAVE 2 iMacs.
One has OS 10.9.5 and the other 10.8.5

It appears that many apps like Safari and Gmail no longer support 10.8.5.

I would like to upgrade to 10.9.5 to get these Apps working properly.
I do not have enough RAM or whatever on this MAC.

I have been unable to see where I can get a download from Apple,
Where they used to offer it as a free upgrade, now it appears as they don't.

I tried to use my "TIME MACHINE" backup drive with the 10.9.5 on it, but the App said not to use it on a MAC that didn't create the backup.
So, any ideas out there how I can get the update please let me know.

Thanks,

Wayne

 

[pm-r]

What are the specs of your two Macs from the About this Mac… window under the Apple icon, top left corner?
Model/Processor, Memory, etc.

Or do you know if the Mavericks 10.9.x installer was ever downloaded for the one iMac by yourself or did OS X 10.9.x come already installed?





- Patrick
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[harryb2448]

Please you changed as there never was any animal known as OS X 9.9.5.

You should download uopgrades when they are available at the time as Apple removes these from the App Store when new upgrades are released.

 

[ferrarr]

If you used the same Apple ID on both Macs, you should see any purchased upgrades in the (Mac) App Store, listed under the purchased page.

 

[WEMertz]

What are the specs of your two Macs from the About this Mac… window under the Apple icon, top left corner?
Model/Processor, Memory, etc.

Or do you know if the Mavericks 10.9.x installer was ever downloaded for the one iMac by yourself or did OS X 10.9.x come already installed?




- Patrick
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I purchased both IMACs used.

The one at home with the 10.9.5 was already on it when I bought it.
2.8 GHZ
4GB RAM



The one here at the office is a 10.8.5 Came with a 10.8.1 on a flash drive.
2.4 GHZ Intel Duo
4 GB Ram

That's about all I know.

Thanks,
Wayne

 

[pm-r]

If both Macs are treated as "YOUR" iMacs and all the data is the same, your easiest "update" you could do is clone your 10.9.5 iMac to an external Mac formatted drive with a cloner app like CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner), and then use the CCC clone drive to boot from when it's connected to the 10.8.5 iMac and then use CCC again to clone the 10.9.5 "backup" to the 10.8.5 iMac. Phew!!!

Then both would have and be running 10.9.5 and have all your data the same.

If one iMac has different data, then use CCC to copy it to some backup source or even a partition on the external drive.

Wouldn't it be nicer and easier if Apple would just leave their older OS X versions available for some latecomers.

And get some more memory for that poor 2GB iMac. It must be sweating blood trying to do any work and putting a strain on the old HDD!!!




- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

Wouldn't it be nicer and easier if Apple would just leave their older OS X versions available for some latecomers.

Sure, but then you'd probably have to pay for the OS to pay for the labor to support all of those old versions. Apple makes hardware, gives away the OS for free. Microsoft supports all those older versions by charging for them to pay the support staff.

I'll take free, thank you. (And, if you just download the installer and keep it, you CAN have the older versions. I have all of them back to Mavericks, plus Snow Leopard disks.)

And +1 for getting more memory for the beast. Give it some room to work with!

 

[pm-r]

Sure, but then you'd probably have to pay for the OS to pay for the labor to support all of those old versions. Apple makes hardware, gives away the OS for free.

Hmmm…??? Not very logical statements considering Apple stores and maintains all their compatible OS X COMBOs and UpDates like those just for Mavericks etc.:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/mavericks

As for the "absent from apple store" original OS X 10.9.x Mavericks installer, one can always just use a google web search, i.e.:
[link removed]




- Patrick
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[MacInWin]

Not sure why you think that's not logical, Patrick. Consider: When Apple removes something from the download, the demand for support for that stops growing and starts shrinking (no new users, you see). So when a serious bug is uncovered, or a security issue, Apple looks at how far back the OS was released and makes a business decision on whether or not to bother with the fix. Given that as soon as it disappears from the store, the number of users can only go down, the "pressure" to spend time and effort on a patch decreases. And in your Apple website support for Mavericks, the last security update was in 2016, meaning that probably no labor was spent on that OS since then. Given that Apple doesn't charge for the OS any more, the sooner that labor can stop being spent on older versions, the better, from Apple's perspective. If we demand support for ancient versions of the OS, Apple may well being charging again to pay for that support. Or offer subscription services. Bottom line, it won't be free.

Apple is, of course, under no compulsion to help unauthorized copies. I don't go to Google, ever, so I didn't follow your link but unless it went back to Apple, they are all pirates and basically undeserving of support.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

We are sufficiently off topic here and no longer addressing the OP's question.