

So I would suggest you install Mojave again and all the apps you would use, Upgrade to macOS Mojave - Official Apple Support dmg file which you thenĪfter El Capitan is installed then you can upgrade to Catalina, but if you are not aware yet Catalina does not run 32bit apps. Go to Section 4 and click on Get Mac OS X El Capitan, this will download a. You can still get El Capitan (10.11.6) from here, How to upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support As you are on Lion you will need to do an intermediate OS install.

In order to upgrade to the dizzying heights of Catalina your Mac must have Mac OS X Mavericks as its minimum OS The line wouldn't allow me to type anything and I am the admin and only user of the iMac. I saw someone else suggest running a code in Terminal (sudo softwareupdate -reset-ignored) but then it asked for a password. however (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) the coding of them changed with Catalina so I can't restore them from Sierra (10.12.6). My iMac was backed up just before the update ran, so my files are sitting on my Time Machine. The Support pages on Apple that have the various versions for download do not have the initial 10.14. Mojave or Catalina will download but when I run the install, they both say that 10.14 or 10.15 are required respectfully. But I can't get any 10.14 nor 10.15 to install. I've managed to get it to install 10.12.6. I reset the macOS to the recommended version (in my case it turned out to be 10.8). But my machine wouldn't come back on line. Catalina update 10.15.6 failed now can't get any 10.15 to install Quick background: Had 10.15.5 on my iMac and ran the.
