OK - not where I wanted to be - but at least I have a functional MacBook Pro running Yosemite. OK, reinstalled Snow Leopard and tried the Yosemite installer. And, of course, I don't have a functioning Snow Leopard any more. Downloaded El Capitan installer from the store. I have installers there for everything from Snow Leopard forward. ![]() Now I can access Apple Store and my purchase history. Machine is functioning albeit with a 2010 vintage OS. If I changed the system date and tried to download the installer, I got an immediate error message that would not let me download the installer.Ĭalled Apple support - they referenced all the tricks I had tried then offered that perhaps som 3rd party repair shop might be able to help at some cost.įinally, I happened to have a Snow Leopard DVD. iMessage is a platform for sending text and multimedia messages between Mac®, iPhone® and iPad® devices using your phone number or email address. If I downloaded and tried to install, got the "OS X could not be installed on this computer" error. I tried every trick that everyone has posted herein and NOTHING worked. In fact it was running El Capitan before I erased the disk and tried to do a clean installation using MacOS Recovery. I had the same problem with a MacBook Pro 5, 1 late 2008 vintage that is supposed to be able to run El Capitan.
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