![]() ![]() ![]() This app is free to download, but the creator accepts donations if you want to support his efforts. The latest version of Diskmaker X app, available here.The installer will delete itself when you install the operating system, but it can be re-downloaded if necessary. The OS X 10.9 Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder. ![]() An 8GB or larger USB flash drive, or an 8GB or larger partition on some other kind of external drive.Before we get started, here’s what you’ll need: The bad news is that it wasn’t as simple as it was before-Apple has changed the way the installer works, and making an install disk manually is more difficult than it used to be. ![]() The good news is, as with Lion and Mountain Lion, it’s possible to create a local USB installer for Mavericks. That said, it’s still nice to have an install disk handy for those cases when you don’t have a connection, when your connection is slow, or when you just have a whole bunch of Macs and don’t want to have to download the installer on each and every one of them. These download-only installers have actually worked pretty well-I’ve never had an issue downloading the software from the Mac App Store or restoring a Mac using the Internet Recovery feature when something went south. When Apple released OS X 10.7 two years ago, it stopped selling operating system DVDs in its stores, stopped shipping recovery disks with new Macs, and switched to downloadable installers for OS X upgrades. ![]()
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