Select the 'Install OS X Mavericks' app and move it to your Applications folder. A new window will open containing the contents of the extracted zip file. You'll see a zip file titled 'Install OS X ' as well as some files from this Internet Archive entry, like the pictures. Right click (or secondary click) on the file and select 'Show Package Contents' (This file will have an image of a slanted cross on it) Click once on (select) the downloaded file, ' install-os-x-mavericks.app' if you downloaded this to Downloads, open Finder and go to the Downloads folder) Open Finder and navigate to your download location. I use Transmission for torrents.įor some reason, this downloads as a 'damaged'. If anyone has trouble with slow download speed, try using the Torrent link. Then I tried using The Unarchiver to unzip and it worked. Unzipping with the stock unzipper got me an error right at the end, tried several times.

Then I used Show Package Contents in the right-click menu. I tried the xattr -cr and it did not change, but I did not try with sudo. I want to make a install/utility stick with the installer.Īfter downloading, the file icon had a slash. I'm already on Mavericks, so all file operations were performed on it. While I appreciate people uploading, the illogical packaging and awkwardness made me feel like there was something malevolent with this download. I ran several scans and did not come up with rootkits. I quickly shut down, booted from a backup, and had to delete the files (all of them, who knows what's in that mess) with rm -rf to clear them out. And I could not get rid of the external file, Traah would not empty, and rm -rf did not work either.Įven after a restart the error said the file was active.

UPDATE: After getting the Installer file out of the pointless packaging, I started to have slow Finder and erratic trackpad issues. And stumped as to why the zip file will not open for me. I am stumped as to why this is the only version they will not let you download. I'm very very sad because I need to make a bootable drive and Apple does not offer THIS InstallMacOSX! I can DL the versions above and below - but NOT MAVERICKS. I tried opening THAT zip file (hoping for different results) but the same thing happened. It downloaded differently (as described in other reviews) so I looked at the package contents and found the same zip file that I got from the zip link. After all that I decided to try the Torrent link. Please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly). I tried Archive Utility (Error 1 - Operation not permitted), Stuffit and The Unarchiver (both crashed) and the Terminal (which said there were xtra bytes at the beginning or within zipfile, attempting to process anyway - then - start of central directory not found zipfile corrupt.

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