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My desktop Mac has been bugging me all week about installing some stupid system update, so this morning I finally took a half-hour to Quit out of all the running applications and let it go ahead.
And . . . it's been stuck with the little progress bar at about 3% for the last 2.5 hours. Black screen with Apple logo, the progress bar, and "Installing Software Update" showing.
What do I do now?
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Typical. Ask again tomorrow morning if it hasn’t completed by then.
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I've stopped running it from the Preference Pane/App Store; I usually start into Internet Recovery Mode and run from there.
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Mr Downtown wrote:
What do I do now?
I'd wonder when my last Time Machine backup completed.... this stuff always makes me nervous!
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I've forced shut down in this situation and it has always come out ok, not that I recommend you do that especially if you aren't backed up... but you are of course... right? When I've done it the computer just started normally - the update was actually completed. But I've NEVER done this on my own computer - just ones that I prep for selling. If the software exploded, there would be no loss.
