downloading el capitan

Hi there, I "bought" in 2016 ElCapitan from the Appstore, to be sure to be able to upgrade to it later. Now, I wanted to do this. (running at the moment both OSX 10.8 and 10.10) But there is always the warning "error 1004" whatever I try to do to download and install it and it worked neither...

I've been trying for months to download OS X El Capitan to my Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 7,1. After "purchasing" the free OS X el capitan download on the App Store back in May 2016, it wouldn't download. Apple support said I needed to establish an account with a credit card in the country in which I...

I 'v been using Macs since (believe it or not) the Mac II, My kids use them and their kids use em. Well I missed the download for El Capitan and then when I saw what I would lose with Sierra on my macbook pro, I tried to get a download of El Capitan only, Apple was not offering it anymore except...

I have El Capitan installed. However, I want to download the El Cap installer, make a bootable thumb drive and install it clean on a new SSD. In the App store, I can initiate a download (I *think*??) but have no way of knowing if it's download or not, other than an endlessly spinning progress...