Trying to make me a bootable USB drive so I can do a clean install! I have followed 3-4 ways to make one, using terminal, or an app and for the life of me I get errors all the time and it will not start the process! Any help would be great!
Yes I have the app in the App folder--I will give this a try---
Ok just did this and it came back with
sudo /Applications/install\macOS\High\Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/creatinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app
Password:
sudo: /Applications/installmacOSHighSierra.app/Contents/Resources/creatinstallmedia: command not found
Yes I have the app in the App folder--I will give this a try---
Ok just did this and it came back with
sudo /Applications/install\macOS\High\Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/creatinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app
Password:
sudo: /Applications/installmacOSHighSierra.app/Contents/Resources/creatinstallmedia: command not found
Careful with spaces. I think that was your undoing. Try it again thus:
So format an 8 GB (or preferably 16GB) USB3 drive which should be called Untitled and formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The installer should be called Install macOS High Sierra.app and should be in your Applications folder.
Run this in terminal and wait about 20 minutes:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app --nointeraction
You no longer need the --applicationpath parameter in 10.13. This works:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
You no longer need the --applicationpath parameter in 10.13. This works:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
Ill trash it and re-download it again! Do I need to drag the App into my USB before I run the command??
Ok downloaded new copy and I still get the same error---really weird lol
How big is the installer? It should be 5.18GB. Others have reported a small file about 20MB downloaded instead. That obviously isn’t the correct one. They had to redownload to get the correct one.
Right, I was just trying to simplify things to avoid transcription errors.Yes. That’s what it says on apple’s official page on the issue at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 but it makes no difference. I made one with the other command and it works.
No that we figured out that Im not getting the full download, I cannot get a full download from the app store no matter what I try, Time to do some googling to see how I can get the Full install...
Still looking?No that we figured out that Im not getting the full download, I cannot get a full download from the app store no matter what I try, Time to do some googling to see how I can get the Full install...
There may be some illegitimate ways to get it. But it would be better to get operating systems direct from the official vendors.
I did not have trouble getting High Sierra. But years ago I did have trouble getting mountain lion betas with some of them only partially downloading.
So I went to the genius bar in the apple store knowing something few people know about genius bars. Well known is that apple stores have their own free wifi. Less well known is that under the desks in the genius bars are power boards allowing customers to plug in their laptops. You don’t have to ask permission to connect to their wifi but you do need to ask permission to plug into their powerboards. So that is what I did and successfully was able to download not just from apple, but also AT apple, some of their mountain lion betas.
So maybe if you are having significant difficulty getting High Sierra, like I did with mountain lion betas, you can go to the genius bar to get it more successfully.
Still looking?
Try this link it's solid, I've used it myself.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwMVdS23k_J-S2x4M1EzeWMxbkE/view
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/YourUSBStick --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app