Dear Smuggers I don't think I have ever been so frustrated with an Apple situation in my life...What follows is the abbreviated version!
I got the cable some of you helped me identify for this old DVD-slot Mac mini. It had 10.6 installed. I downloaded El Capitan to upgrade and got the installation going. However, it stalled completely on restart and I didn't have a back-up disk handy (there was nothing to back up in terms of files). So after many false starts, I installed 10.6 again from the old DVD I had on my shelf and started again. After the many updates in Software Update, I'm back at 10.6.8. I tried using an archived El Cap installer but it said it was corrupted. So I went to redownload it and it says "You have updates available for other accounts: To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it". I've never had another AppleID, and this is a virgin install from a DVD after erasing the disk so I have no idea what to do next. Any suggestions? I just wish I had a backup from another machine but all I have is anoter 10.6 and Sierra, which won't run on this machine. I also tried running the installer on my Mac Pro (which will boot from 10.6) but it says it won't run on this OS (ie Sierra). What now? cheers J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
