Hi My wife's MacBook Air is completely fucked and while she is on vacation, I told her that I would backup her entire computer and erase and install the latest OS.She is running El Capitan and it looks like the latest OS she can install is High Sierra, which is perfect. It's what I'm running on my Late 2011 MacBook Pro 15'.However, no updates are available on the App Store, and I've already tried all the steps on this page:And nothing has worked.How can I just do a clean erase and install of her current OS (El Capitan) and then try to start again from there?I have already reset her Apple ID which was causing huge problems and it seems to be woking now.Any help is appreciated.ThanksEDIT: according to everything I've read online, the MacBook Air 3,2 is still supported for High Sierra. I'm not trying to install on an unsupported Mac.
For Mac OS X 10.5 or higher equipped with Intel chipset. Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)users equipped with PowerPC chipset have to download FileZilla 3.2. Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 or higher) users have to download Filezilla 3.0.
Execute softwareupdate -l on the Terminal to see available updates (it's the same utility the App Store uses to fetch updates, but the command is worth a try). If you're lucky, you'll get something.To install those listed updates, execute softwareupdate -i -a (or sudo softwareupdate -i -a if it doesn't work). You can see what all this does by opening the manual for the command: man softwareupdate.I'm not entirely sure about this process, because I'm using a 09' machine and can't go further than El Capitan, so 'updating' is an alien word to me. And they just dropped homebrew support for El Capitan.
That's lame.
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