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macOS Catalina Patcher (http://dosdude1.com/catalina)
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Cannot download catalina copy MBP early 2011 13" #108

Open gluehbirne123 opened 4 years ago

gluehbirne123 commented 4 years ago

Hi,

i try to download a copy of catalin for MBP early 2011 13". I get an error "Could not locate the correct entry in the CatalogURL. Cannot continue." I am on 10.13.6 right now, if that matters.

jhallstr commented 4 years ago

Hi,

i try to download a copy of catalin for MBP early 2011 13". I get an error "Could not locate the correct entry in the CatalogURL. Cannot continue." I am on 10.13.6 right now, if that matters.

That's the message you'll get when you try download a version of MacOS from Apple which is not supported on the Mac you're trying to download it to. Yes, Apple uses your Mac's ID to prevent this. To download a version of MacOS, you need access to a Mac on which that version is supported, and download it fro Apple there. Then you can transfer it to the Mac you want to use patcher to install it on. However the exception seems to be using the patcher tool to download the latest version seems to work despite this issue. But you can't a version earlier than the latest version.

gluehbirne123 commented 4 years ago

Hi,

i do not understand exactly... of course my macbook is not supported for catalina - that´s why i want to use catalina patcher. in the video there is the same situation - unsupported mac downloads a copy of catalina in one of the first steps. this fails on my mac.

EDIT: Mojave Download is working from Mojave Patcher - although my MBP is not supported for Mojave

jhallstr commented 4 years ago

Well, if you're using the patcher's download option it SHOULD work and give you the latest version. I guess I was too close to my problem where the latest version created a problem with my wifi, and I was trying to get an earlier version. Thats where you run into this problem. But if you want the latest, it should work. hmm which version of patcher do you have installed? The Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 is the one to use for the latest Catalina versions.

gluehbirne123 commented 4 years ago

Yes, i try it with 1.4.4 - i do not know what the problem is. Logs are empty.

jhallstr commented 4 years ago

Well, I have no idea then. Sounds like you need dosdude1's help. Good luck.

jhallstr commented 4 years ago

I just checked, patcher 1.4.4 running on Mojave can still download the latest Catalina.

gluehbirne123 commented 4 years ago

hopefully dosdude can help me... i just updated to mojave - download of catalina still does not work.