(i was not in front of my mac at that moment) Spent about 2 hours on the phone and it came down to this. When calling a local apple store they connected me with an expert across the country. Just wanting the install image so I can run the original OS within Parallels. I don't want to throw away my entire current system. which is an external disk requiring software from the OS to run - so i'm not sure how that could work.Ī bit confused on these later parts. If not the next step is somehow disabling the internal drive in order to save to a disc. So it sounds like I have to find an old Apple keyboard with usb plug and reboot into Internet Recovery by holding down Command+Option+R at startup. This version IS in the Apple Store Purchases The original OS 10.8 does not show up anywhere, but was the base OS when purchased on 12/19/13.ġ0.8.5 shows up in the system log of softwareīut it's not in the Apple Store list of Purchases Is there a way to download without having to pay again? Original OS discs were no longer being offered when I bought my Mac mini as all of the OSs were at that time announced to be free. Had the Apple care agent not misguided me in the setup I'd still have it.īut all that the Apple Store has records is of the free upgrade to 10.8.5 (which is the version I want but requires the core 10.8 to get there and wants me to buy it again).

Second or first, I already paid for this version when I bought the computer. But I have to buy it again?įirst, I thought all Mac OS were now free? Now I purchased Parallels and would like to install my original OS. I needed to be able to run Protools 10 which is not supported on 10.9 and later. In later upgrading to 10.9 I worked with an Apple Care support agent to setup a means to keep this original OS but the process did not work.

I would like to have access to this version again. My Mac mini came with Mac OS 10.8 which I immediately upgraded to 10.8.5.

Mac osx 10.8