Chris, On the machine all you have to do is do a web search for Mojave installer download that to that machine. The reason your install didn’t work because you installed on your machine if I’m not mistaken. So in a nutshell, just do a search for Mojave installer on that machine and reinstalled and that should work.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 25, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Christopher Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So, I am helping a friend of mine, who admittedly, did something against > probably better judgement of listening to advice. Now, he/she has gotten > themselves in a bit of a mess. > > > Though people have been warning for now to basically avoid Catalina like the > plague, as plugins often stop working, PT itself isn't certified and has > major issues, heck, not that this is exactly OT, but even Reaper apparently > has major issues and won't run... > > > Anyway, they upgraded their mac mini 2018 to Catalina. I'm not sure how much > was them not listening, vs. how much was them not seeing the warnings that > have been discussed in various places. > > > I happened to have an old Mojave installer lying around on my mac from > earlier. So, I managed to use Disk MakerX and create a bootable USB drive of > the Mojave installer, but evidently, it appears to be dammaged. > > > Of corse, we didn't know this until the phase of reinstallation after > repartitioning their Catalina Macintosh HD, so, basically now, their drive > went to being wiped. I wound up having to do an internet network install, and > get them back on Catalina, so they'd have at least something usable. All be > it, PT is out the question, but at least their system would boot. > > > I tried doing command+option+shift+R to get into internet recovery which > would download the version of the OS their system came with originally, which > was Mojave. Unfortunately, this isn't working. When I looked in my purchase > history in the app store, I cannot find Mohave in the history dating all the > way back to 2010, which obviously, Mojave wasn't in existance at that point, > so if I don't see it going that far back, then we gotta problem. > > > I checked, but I do not have a Super Duper backup of Mojave. The only thing I > have is one of Sierra 10.12, and another of an early seed 10.15 So, I am > helping a friend of mine, who admittedly, did something against probably > better judgement of listening to advice. Now, he/she has gotten themselves in > a bit of a mess. > > > Though people have been warning for now to basically avoid Catalina like the > plague, as plugins often stop working, PT itself isn't certified and has > major issues, heck, not that this is exactly OT, but even Reaper apparently > has major issues and won't run... > > > Anyway, they upgraded their mac mini 2018 to Catalina. I'm not sure how much > was them not listening, vs. how much was them not seeing the warnings that > have been discussed in various places. > > > I happened to have an old Mojave installer lying around on my mac from > earlier. So, I managed to use Disk MakerX and create a bootable USB drive of > the Mojave installer, but evidently, it appears to be dammaged. > > > Of corse, we didn't know this until the phase of reinstallation after > repartitioning their Catalina Macintosh HD, so, basically now, their drive > went to being wiped. I wound up having to do an internet network install, and > get them back on Catalina, so they'd have at least something usable. All be > it, PT is out the question, but at least their system would boot. > > > I tried doing command+option+shift+R to get into internet recovery which > would download the version of the OS their system came with originally, which > was Mojave. Unfortunately, this isn't working. When I looked in my purchase > history in the app store, I cannot find Mohave in the history dating all the > way back to 2010, which obviously, Mojave wasn't in existance at that point, > so if I don't see it going that far back, then we gotta problem. > > > I checked, but I do not have a Super Duper backup of Mojave. The only thing I > have is one of Sierra 10.12, and another of an early seed 10.15 Catalina > beta. I was thinking if I had something, I could just modify it to their > settings after re-imaging it to their drive. > > > Even if I did this with the Sierra image, it wouldn't help, as 1, the system > is newer than when Sierra was out, and I don't know how backward compatible > that system would be, but more importantly, I can't as the Mojave installer > is apparently gone, and the one I have, says their system, is dammaged. > > > I'm perfectly aware of having to go into recovery and disable the security > settings in security manager, so they can install from external media. I > already did that. Stupid T2 chip? I freaking hate that blasted thing! > > > I just wonder what the next step's gonna be, since I can't seem to obtain a > Mojave installer which isn't corrupted. > > > It's so weird! My purchase history shows El Capitan, but not Sierra, not > Mojave, none of that. Why would they have kept El Capitan in there, but > pulled Sierra, and Mojave? Even HI! Sierra's not showing in there even though > I damn well know I downloaded it with my apple ID earlier. > > > Do we at this point, short of them just waiting for things to become > compatible, have any recorse, or are they basically screwed? I tried to warn > them, but... yeah... > > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ptaccess/8e6cc495-aac3-0fd9-30f1-6aea06e9beac%40gmail.com. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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