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Went to do a clean reboot of my old MacBook Air to set up a temporary machine to work on because my brand new MacBook Pro (Touchbar wheeee) has a broken N key which apparently takes days to repair because the model doesn't work with a keypull...Permalink On twitter.com
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First I had to figure out how to get into my account when the lack of an iOS device or a currently logged in laptop meant that I couldn't use a 2nd factor.Permalink On twitter.com
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Then I had to turn off 2 factor auth, because I couldn't get into the 2nd factor auth even when I was signed into the browser. Then I had to reset my security questions.Permalink On twitter.com
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Then I had to reboot the machine again into recovery mode, to use the recovery partition explicitly for the purpose of reinstalling the OS. But it didn't work, because I got a 'this item is currently unavailable'. So...Permalink On twitter.com
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Then I look up what to do and I build a boot drive into a USB Drive and when I try to install from there I get a mysterious stop symbol which was a circle with a line through it...Permalink On twitter.com
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So I tried a bunch of different 3rd party boot utilities instead of using the one Apple provided. None of them work any better. So more research! ...Permalink On twitter.com
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It turns out even though I've used this MacBook Air with OSX Lion on it for literal years I somehow don't have a record of authenticating to install it in the app store and that is what the issue was, even though a very basic error message that could have said that didn't appear.Permalink On twitter.com
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So in order to get OSX Lion to appear in my App store it seems I have to buy it. So I just paid $20 to get an auth code via email that I can enter into the App store in order to have a record of having used OSX Lion in there, in the hope that will allow me to authenticate.Permalink On twitter.com
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But despite the fact this is a literal *string of characters* I can't actually get it normally. I paid for it but Apple has to process my $20 order for a 6 year old operating system in order to email to me the auth code to get a record of it in the app store to reboot my computerPermalink On twitter.com
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So now I have to wait for Apple to process my order, to put that order in the App store, to reboot a computer, to reactivate an OS that is already on the computer in the recovery drive, to install it for a clean install of an OS that was working before this process started.Permalink On twitter.com
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Also... it turns out I can't secure my Apple account with two factor because I'm not loyal enough to Apple to have an iPhone that is the *only way* to do that.Permalink On twitter.com
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I hate Apple and Mac computers so much. Literally the minute Microsoft gets its shit together to put CLI command tools into Windows and the dev tools are available I'm switching back.Permalink On twitter.com
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I guess I'll go to sleep and wait for Apple to load up the punch cards that send me an auth code. PS: I did this same exact thing with Windows 10 last year and it took 30 minutes and had no problems.On twitter.com
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Looks like I finally got my license for Lion last night to put into the app store. I'll have to see if it works tonight.Permalink On twitter.com
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It did! My laptop works again. Now to upgrade it... oh I need to buy the next OSX upgrade for $20 before I can get to the free OSX updates. *sigh*Permalink On twitter.com
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