I have a 2009 macbook air with 10.6.8 and over 20gb of memory left and also 2mb, aka all of the requirements for mavericks, i've tried every solution and yet mavericks will still not download? Somebody please help me.
Seriously bugging me and stressing me out - please help me out.
Check if your machine can accept it
https://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
If you have TimeMachine, there is a hidden TM local file taking up the remaining space on the drive.
It's not counted on the size because it self scales as more of your user data is written to the drive.
Backup all your users files off the machine to a external storage drive (not TimeMachine as it will drastically change once Mavericks is installed) and phyically unmount/disonnect.
Next Trash > Empty Trash the users files on the boot volume that you copied to the external drive.
Paste this into Terminal to turn off TimeMacine local backups and press enter, enter your admin password and press enter
sudo tmutil disablelocal
(To re-enable it: sudo tmutil enablelocal)
then turn TimeMacine on/off and reboot the machine. Check your drive space now in Applications/Utilities > Activity Monitor.
Try the Mavericks upgrade again, check your machine specs (Apple menu > about this Mac > more info) for a model identifier and consult Apple's site if your machine can accept Mavericks.
https://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
Mind you that 10.7-10.9 will NOT run your currently installed PowerPC based software.
Some of your older software may cease to function (Intel processors or not) because of the huge jump in OS X versions.
If your not currently under AppleCare, I would advise against a OS X upgrade as it can have issues with your hardware and the firmware can brick the machine.
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