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Search doesn't find previous macOS releases #106
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This isn't a bug, mas only finds apps that are "available for purchase" on the app store. Older versions of OS X are not "available for purchase" any more. They are only visible in the "purchased" tab of people who already bought them when they "were available". That isn't the case for macOS Sierra and newer. Those don't appear in the purchases tab any more, for anyone. They can only be downloaded "at the time of availability". |
Ok but since I did "purchase" them in the past I still would like to be able to download them. But since search isn't showing any results I have no idea how to get their IDs. |
Just go download them. They are still in your Purchases tab of the App Store. The only one that isn't is Sierra, and I downloaded that using an ID just a week ago. I'll see if I can dig up the ID. |
Sierra is 1127487414. |
Thanks, however I was trying to use |
Ok, So download them manually and run "mas list" to get their IDs. Then you have an archive of them, and their IDs. |
ID = Probably because
As stated here. Not a bug of mas utility ofc. |
But we still can download macOS Sierra via AppStore |
Sounds like this might be related to #82. OS installers need some special handling. |
Been doing some digging and MAS GUI also hides older macOS versions. In some cases (like recent versions), they can still be accessed from the "Purchased" tab but this seems to be a bit buggy as some didn't show for me until I found the direct download links. Here they are for posterity:
💡 Note that once you have the IDs these can be installed through mas. So, I'm changing this issue to a feature request to add special handling for macOS installers. |
One more for the list:
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So i cant download mavericks and yosemite from mas 1.7.0. When i write mas purchase and then mavericks’s app id, it says item is not available. So i guess there is no way to download mavericks and yosemite from the app store? |
Relevant, but it seems only useful for recent releases:
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Neither of the following returns the actual OS downloads, but rather just some junk apps:
mas search Yosemite
mas search "El Capitan"
mas search Lion
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