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Help updating my old MacBook pro 2011
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1875628" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>[USER=407055]@dimahg1368[/USER], I sense that you may be using some dodgy downloads for what you are trying. You mentioned a .dmg you had downloaded to the PC. Apple never made a downloadable .dmg installer. Their installer is always an app that runs on the Mac. You can usually restore using Internet Recovery ( <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904</a>) but Snow Leopard came on DVDs, Lion was a low cost upgrade, then after that upgrades were free, but only available as app installers. Any other source than Apple is dangerous to use because you don't know what may have been done to insert malware into the OS itself. Stic with Apple, and nowhere else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1875628, member: 396914"] [USER=407055]@dimahg1368[/USER], I sense that you may be using some dodgy downloads for what you are trying. You mentioned a .dmg you had downloaded to the PC. Apple never made a downloadable .dmg installer. Their installer is always an app that runs on the Mac. You can usually restore using Internet Recovery ( [URL]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904[/URL]) but Snow Leopard came on DVDs, Lion was a low cost upgrade, then after that upgrades were free, but only available as app installers. Any other source than Apple is dangerous to use because you don't know what may have been done to insert malware into the OS itself. Stic with Apple, and nowhere else. [/QUOTE]
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