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mattwolfmatt

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Jun 7, 2008
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I have a late 2013 iMac running High Sierra. I was finally going to upgrade to the latest OS, Big Sur. Turns out, it's too old. But it should be compatible with Catalina.

Problem is, I can't find out how to download Catalina anywhere. Has that ship sailed?
 

clueless88

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Aug 23, 2020
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My mpb tries to find the oses with the Apple music store and shows a dialog box saying that the item is not available in the US Store.

I was able to locate El Capitan in the Apple App store but couldn't find Catalina or Mojave.

I am currently running Catalina on my mid 2012 MBP but would like to try out Mojave to have access to some 32 bit apps.

I resurrected this MBP with a failing hard drive and thought that it would install the original OS when I was finally able to partially boot it up--I was surprised to find that it installed Catalina when the set up was complete. I then cloned the failing HD to a spare HD, then subsequently cloned that clone to an SSD. Now that I've played around with Catalina for a while I am wondering how I would like Mojave, so I am interested in trying to find a place to download Mojave.
 

Boyd01

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Feb 21, 2012
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Now that I've played around with Catalina for a while I am wondering how I would like Mojave, so I am interested in trying to find a place to download Mojave.

You can download it by going to the link that @Natzoo posted above. Click the link for Mojave under Download MacOS. That should open the Mojave page in App Store (or, at least it does for me).
 

Insidious

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Dec 6, 2017
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If you can update to Mojave, your Mac will recommend updating to Catalina in the system update section.
 
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