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High Sierra 10.13 How To Disable That

Until I have enough learned about APFS and possible compatibility issues with my other macs.

This is annoying because it prevents a single download from being used on multiple computers, plus the small installer requires an internet connection during usage to download the rest of the High Sierra update files.

The source of this patcher application is a MacRumors Forums.

Interestingly, once a user ends up with the 19 MB version of the incomplete installer, that seems to be the only thing that will download for that user regardless of how many times the incomplete installer app is deleted and re downloaded.

This tool asked me if I want to overwrite the stub and I choose yes and 5.7GB data and 2.5 hours just disappear )) The stub installer still there.

It does require access to a Mac in order to use the App store and use of Terminal.

To do so we will use the installer stub app to grab all the files from Apple and then abort the install before it does anything else.

Choose the install disk and click install (it wont actually install yet).

It will download the remaining install files and place them under macOS Install Data (i.e.

Macintosh HD).

When it has finished downloading all it needs, the installer screen will then ask you to restart the Mac but dont At this point ABORT the install by quitting the installer app.

This will restore the ability to create an install media USB.

Note that the USB stick will be completely wiped as part of the process.

High Sierra 10.13 How To Disable That

Apple downloads the little mini-installer which is frustrating, but I cant figure out why or how to disable that, so you have to use these workarounds to get the installer.

I think thats a good indicator of whats to come, its a hassle from the get-go Yea, take that as a hint.

Thank you.

Simply abort the install when it asks which disk you want to install to.

And i wanted the patch method to be the last option if everything wont work.

Maybe it has something to do with having system integrity protection disabled.

Thank you Andrew.

No idea why Apple have to be so damn obtuse about everything There is ALWAYS a work around just need to find it;).

Some time ago I downloaded the HS Installer (from Appstore), but took it out of the Applications folder to an external disk and compressed it, (it does not uncompress anymore, probably because HS has been updated to clear a bug some time ago).

I want to install HS with the startosinstall converttoapfs NO Terminal command so I downloaded the HS file again from Appstore: it stopped at 400kb.

I tried again while holding the Shift key then while holding the Altoption key: no difference.

Then I let it for 20 minutes and see: it slowly began to download more, then more and after 10 minutes the Installer file was 5.2GB I stopped the install then copied the file to the external disk without compression.

Then took away the.app from the name in getinfo and left it in the Applications folder.

How To Download High Sierra 10.13 Update For Mac