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When you’re asked, type Y to confirm that you want to erase your bootable installer volume, then press Return.

Note that for security, Terminal doesn’t display characters as you type your password.

You’ll be prompted to type your administrator password and press Return again.

Once the command has been entered, press Return.

NOTE (*): If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the “–applicationpath” argument and installer path, as shown in the command for El Capitan. For my example, I replaced it with Installer.īig Sur:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume Catalina:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume Mojave:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume High Sierra:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume El Capitan: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app In each command, replace the name MyVolume with the name of your volume. These commands are dependent on the installer being in your Applications folder.

At the Terminal prompt, type or copy and paste (easier and more accurate) one of the following commands.

Find the Terminal app in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.

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For this article, I used a 2TB USB hard disk drive erased and formatted as Mac OS Extended and given the name Installer.

Plug in the USB flash drive or formatted volume you’re using for the bootable install disk.

When the file is downloaded, double-click it to install an app named “Install OS X El Capitan” into your Applications folder.

Macdaddy install disk creator not working mac os x#

The installer has the name “Install macOS ”.įor Mac OS X El Capitan, the link downloads a disk image file named InstallMacOSX.dmg. For macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra, the links download an installer directly into your app folder. To ensure that you’re getting a valid, un-hacked, and legal version of macOS, you need to download it directly from Apple.

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Apart from that it has all the standard backup software features, such as scheduled backups which activate when you connect your backup disk (so backing up becomes a matter of simply connecting your disk and everything happens safely and automatically), and it wraps it all up in a ridiculously easy-to-use user interface.The macOS Big Sur download page in the Mac App Store You can literally store 30 apparent bootable copies of your 1TB startup disk on a 1.5TB backup disk. And it does this while using very little space. It is also the only 3rd-party software which can make incremental snapshots of your disk, which creates daily copies of your startup disk on an external disk and allows you to go back to prior versions of documents or deleted documents. It is the only software which has the ease-of-use to allow you to copy and paste anything - even a bootable volume - using the contextual menu in the Finder (OS X 10.10 Yosemite and later only). Mac Backup Guru lets you copy and paste a bootable volume in the Finder, or make incremental snapshots.