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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1813407" data-attributes="member: 396914">Let me restate it slightly differently. I originally said: I would revise that to say, For Apple, the software is secondary, kind of a necessary evil, to sell the hardware. So they drive to keep software costs down. Also, you said: There IS access to previous operating systems. Internet Recovery. Here is the article on it from Apple:&nbsp; <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314</a>And once you recover to the original OS for the system (Or Lion, as that is the oldest downloadable version), then the App store works as it did back then and all your purchases are visible again, as they were, including all the installers you &quot;purchased&quot; by downloading them. I just did that yesterday, taking a MBP with HS, reverting to Lion, loading El Cap, then HS again, just as a test that it all worked. I don't think it has anything to do with APFS, but more with just how Apple has changed the approach to old versions of the OS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1813407, member: 396914"] Let me restate it slightly differently. I originally said: I would revise that to say, For Apple, the software is secondary, kind of a necessary evil, to sell the hardware. So they drive to keep software costs down. Also, you said: There IS access to previous operating systems. Internet Recovery. Here is the article on it from Apple: [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314[/url] And once you recover to the original OS for the system (Or Lion, as that is the oldest downloadable version), then the App store works as it did back then and all your purchases are visible again, as they were, including all the installers you "purchased" by downloading them. I just did that yesterday, taking a MBP with HS, reverting to Lion, loading El Cap, then HS again, just as a test that it all worked. I don't think it has anything to do with APFS, but more with just how Apple has changed the approach to old versions of the OS. [/QUOTE]

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