Hello. I am a new user of gibMacOS, so apologies if this is a known issue. I have followed the steps and am trying to build a USB using recovery media for Catalina. Everything seems to be working fine with MakeInstall.bat, but when it gets to "Installing Clover" it stops and presents the error message: "Error communicating with github!"

Any ideas? I have tried using a different PC and with both Admin and non-admin execution of the bat file. Any assistance appreciated! Thanks.

Gathering info...

• Got CloverISO-5092.tar.lzma Downloading... Downloaded 2.51 MB of 2.51 MB (100.00%) Extracting CloverISO-5092.tar.lzma... Extracting CloverISO-5092.tar... Extracting EFI from Clover-v2.5k-5092-X64.iso... Extracting boot0af from Clover-v2.5k-5092-X64.iso... Extracting boot1f32alt from Clover-v2.5k-5092-X64.iso... Extracting boot6 from Clover-v2.5k-5092-X64.iso... No partitions located on disk!

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I'm trying to download macOS Big Sur and make a bootable USB stick on Windows, but I get an error. That's what I'm doing:

1. Run gibMacOS.bat.
2. Enter "m" and then "10.16".
3. Enter "1" to download macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 (20B29).
4. After the download is complete, I close this app and run MakeInstall.bat as administrator.
5. Enter "D" and then "2", since I have a USB stick under that number, and then enter "y".
6. In gibMacOS folder, I follow the path "macOS Downloads\publicrelease", right-click the folder "001-79699 - 11.0.1 macOS Big Sur" while pressing Shift, select "Copy as path", then paste it into the console and click Enter.
7. I am getting the error:

001-79699 - 11.0.1 macOS Big Sur is not in the available recovery package names: recoveryhdupdate.pkg, recoveryhdmetadmg.pkg Ensure you're passing a proper recovery package.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the app? I was thinking about adding recoveryhdmetadmg.pkg from Catalina, but I'm not sure if it will work correctly.

I was starting to make my bootable usb following the OpenCore guide, then I noticed the guide suddenly started referencing OpenCore 0.6.2, so I checked the OC github and found OC was just updated one hour ago, so decided to start over, so I ran MakeInstall.bat and with the "O" argument and now it's giving me this error at the step of installing OC

Gathering info...
 - Got OpenCore-0.6.2-RELEASE.zip
Downloading...
Downloaded 4.03 MB of 4.03 MB (100.00%)
Extracting OpenCore-0.6.2-RELEASE.zip...
Gathering DUET boot files...
 - boot
 - boot0
 - boot1f32
Copying EFI folder to F:/EFI...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 879, in <module>
    w.main()
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 875, in main
    self.main()
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 801, in main
    self.main()
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 874, in main
    self.diskpart_erase(selected_disk, use_gpt, clover_version)
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 310, in diskpart_erase
    self.select_package(disk, clover_version)
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 406, in select_package
    self.dd_image(disk, os.path.join(temp, hfs), clover_version)
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 444, in dd_image
    if clover_version == "OpenCore": self.install_oc(disk)
  File "C:\Users\Matías\Downloads\gibMacOS-master\gibMacOS-master\MakeInstall.py", line 513, in install_oc
    shutil.copytree(os.path.join(temp,"EFI"), "{}/EFI".format(part))
  File "C:\Users\Matías\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\shutil.py", line 552, in copytree
    with os.scandir(src) as itr:
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] El sistema no puede encontrar la ruta especificada: 'C:\\Users\\MATAS~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tmpnxifrywo\\EFI'

Script exited with error code: 1

"The system cannot find the path specified"

As I said before, it was working just a few hours ago when 0.6.1 was the latest release

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When I run BuildmacOSInstallApp

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Missing Required Files

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That folder is missing the following required files: BaseSystem.dmg, BaseSystem.chunklist, InstallESDDmg.pkg, AppleDiagnostics.dmg, AppleDiagnostics.chunklist

The Big Sur directory in macOS Downloads

Cheers Derek

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I've read through all the issues (closed and open) in GitHub and tried all the suggestions that I could, but unfortunately, I'm not able to get this to work. I'm running Windows 10 x64 1909 with all available updates installed. I've tried three different USB sticks from different manufacturers and different USB ports. I've tried running it as admin and letting the script self-elevate, but they all fail with the same error:

DiskPart exited with non-zero status (1). Aborting.

DiskPart codes look like it is simply saying it is a "fatal error." However, I looked at the Python script, and it appears that it is trying to run the following block:

"select disk {}".format(disk.get("index",-1)),
"clean",
"convert mbr",
"create partition primary size=200",
"format quick fs=fat32 label='CLOVER'",
"active",
"create partition primary id=AB" # AF = HFS, AB = Recovery

Running these commands (without the comments and commas and such, obviously, and substituting the proper disk in the select statement) in diskpart itself works just fine and creates a drive that looks like the following, but the script seems to be having an issue with it, and unfortunately, I'm not good enough with Python to troubleshoot it further. Any ideas? Thanks for all the hard work on this!

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Please help me corpnewt Thanks

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Any ideas?

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Thanks.