Still running macOS 10.13 High Sierra or earlier? (Mojave page in the Mac App Store.)Ĭlick the Download link (it’s shown as “Downloading” in the screenshot above) and the Mojave Installer is downloaded into the Applications folder on your Mac. Note that if you have already installed Mojave, clicking the “Get” button in the Mac App Store will launch System Preferences > Software Update and you’ll see the following dialog (see screenshot below).

That’s not a problem since you can download it from the Mac App Store. If so, you probably won’t find the installer in your Applications folder. Perhaps you’ve already upgraded your Mac to macOS Mojave. The app is installed…but wait to launch it because there is more work to do first… Once you’ve located the disk image file, double click it to mount the disk image and a screen similar to the one below appears: (DiskMaker X 8 Installer Screen.)ĭrag the DiskMaker X 8 icon to the Applications folder alias as shown by the gray arrow on the installer screen. By default, it should be in the Downloads folder. To install DiskMaker X 8, find the installer disk image file.

DiskMaker X is free of charge, but sending the developers a donation to support their work is always a good idea. There are other ways to make a bootable installation disk that require familiarity with the Mac command line, but DiskMaker X just makes the process much more “Mac-like” and transparent.Ĭlick the link above to download a copy of DiskMaker X 8 to your Mac. In this article we’ll show you how to create a bootable install drive. What’s so exciting about that? DiskMaker X 8 is a quick and easy way to create bootable install disks, and many Rocket Yard readers have used the free utility over the years so they have a flash or hard drive they can use for a clean install of macOS. It’s autumn again the leaves are starting to fall, a new version of macOS has just shipped, and the team at DiskMaker has just released the newest version of DiskMaker X.

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