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allan53

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jul 22, 2002
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New Hampshire
I made a bootable backup of my 10.15.1 Mac Pro on an external drive in preparation for my new iMac.

i picked up the iMac and started to setup from my bootable drive. I could not do this as my ne iMac only had 10.14.6 installed and I could not migrate from a new OS.

No problem I thought. I would just upgrade the new iMac to 10.15.1 and then use the migration assistant. However, 10 minutes into the upgrade I get a message.

”an error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."

I tried 4 more times with the same result. Can anyone help?
 
are you trying to upgrade from software update? and, if it's a new imac... you can call apple if no one here resolves it...
 
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