But your original reason for booting into Recovery was specifically to repair Sierra 2015; did you do that? Yep.

Recovery hasn't got access to the info on your drive, so you've got to click on the icon in the top right corner, select your network, and enter your password to get onto the Internet. Didn't know about that, thanks.

Please boot back into Recovery with your external attached and do the following:
  • Get Safari working and see if Amazon works for you. Regardless of whether it's "yes" or "no," it'll be the first concrete piece of info about your specific situation that we'll have. Done. Nope, same issues.
  • Launch Disk Utility and
    • Repair Sierra 2015
    • Repair the top line item that names the manufacturer of your internal drive.
    • Repair the top line item that names the manufacturer of your external drive.
Done and Done. Report said all was well. Tried Safari again. Same thing. When I tried Safari again I clicked on a product and then clicked on the stars. I got the message: Safari could not d/l the file "ref=acr_dpx_hist_5" because the disk doesn't have enough free space. Try deleting document or downloading to another disk.

Originally Posted By: plantsower
My AppleCare will be expired, but Apple told me that if I called with a question (which I did and they couldn't help) I could take it in for free after things are open.

I'm not sure why you think you need to go to the Apple Store, but yes, if you call in - and you always want to get a case number - before your AppleCare expires you're good for that particular issue afterwards. Well, I was thinking I may need to go to the Apple Store if I can't get it fixed on my own with all the help I get on FTM.

Originally Posted By: plantsower
Also, I am wondering if I use a couple of flash drives and put Mojave on one and Catalina on the other if it wouldn't make it all simpler for me as a backup. My clunky Passport External drive is a pain to use anyway. I've never used a flash drive, so I hope it's a simple process (for me).

I can't help you with that one, but why have you got a Mojave partition and a Catalina partition when you intend to install only one of the two OSs? [/quote]


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