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#Mac os x mavericks dmg download#

IMPORTANT: To reiterate, if youвЂ™ve downloaded Mavericks from the Mac App Store (for any other Mac you own), so youвЂ™re able to download the Mac App Store version of the Mavericks installer, you donвЂ™t need to use the procedure in this article.

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So itвЂ™s better to have the full installer on a bootable drive.)ДЇortunately, itвЂ™s possible to create a bootable Mavericks installer drive even if your only Mac is a model that shipped with Mavericks-although doing so requires a bit more work than if you had purchased the Mac App Store version. However, like the standard OS X Recovery feature, this drive requires you to download the full 5GB+ of OS X each time you want to install. (Note that Apple offers a downloadable utility for creating an emergency OS X Recovery drive, which I covered when the Lion version was released. This means you canвЂ™t use our standard tutorial. However, if you have a Mac that debuted after Mavericks was released in October 2013, your Mac shipped with Mavericks pre-installed, so you donвЂ™t have an easily downloadable version of the installer-unless you happened to purchase Mavericks for another, older Mac. If you purchased OS X 10.9 from the Mac App Store, creating a bootable Mavericks installer drive from the Mac App Store version of Mavericks is relatively simple.

(OS X Internet Recovery is available on mid-2011-or-later Macs, as well as some older Macs that have received relevant firmware updates.) A bootable installer drive, on the other hand, will always be there for you. And if youвЂ™ve got a Mac that doesnвЂ™t support OS X Internet Recovery-a variation of OS X Recovery that loads over the Internet and requires special firmware-recovery mode may not even be available if your MacвЂ™s drive itself is having problems. For starters, OS X Recovery doesnвЂ™t include the full Mavericks installer-it requires you to download over 5GB of data before you can reinstall OS X 10.9-whereas a bootable installer drive contains all the necessary data, making installation much, much faster.

#Mac os x mavericks dmg install#

For example, if you want to install Mavericks (OS X 10.9) on multiple Macs, a bootable installer drive is faster and more convenient than downloading or copying the entire OS X installer to each computer.Д«ut even for troubleshooting, a bootable installer drive has advantages over OS X Recovery. But there are still good reasons to have one. OS X Recovery is a convenient feature that, in theory, means you no longer need an OS X Install disc or a bootable external hard drive with the OS X installer.

(See our hands-on with Mountain Lion Recovery for all the details.)

If you ever have system or drive issues, OS X Recovery lets you boot your Mac into a special recovery mode to check or repair your hard drive, browse the Web for troubleshooting help, restore your drive from a backup, or even reinstall OS X itself. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for creating a bootable Mavericks installer drive.ДЄ nice feature of recent OS X versions is OS X Recovery. This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks.