Uh oh. Mac help please
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wrote on 15 Dec 2020, 13:42 last edited by
I woke up my computer maybe 15m ago and saw this:
It hasn’t budged a micrometer in those 15m. Plus, these updates usually kickoff sometime in the middle of the night, don’t they?
At what point to I decide it is frozen and needs to be aborted?
Then what do I do?
Oh, and before anyone gives me the obvious advice, I bought a PC just the other day.
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wrote on 15 Dec 2020, 13:48 last edited by
How long can you go on with life without that Mac?
If you’re not in a hurry, maybe wait ‘til lunch and reboot if the progress bar hasn’t moved by lunch.
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wrote on 15 Dec 2020, 14:11 last edited by
I assume you have "auto-update" enabled.
I've had mine freeze for up to an hour. Since I have good backups (including a clone that gets made every day at 2AM), I'm not afraid to force-restart it. Seems to happen once in a while.
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I assume you have "auto-update" enabled.
I've had mine freeze for up to an hour. Since I have good backups (including a clone that gets made every day at 2AM), I'm not afraid to force-restart it. Seems to happen once in a while.
wrote on 15 Dec 2020, 15:40 last edited by taiwan_girl@george-k same, though I only use Time machine.
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wrote on 15 Dec 2020, 15:41 last edited by
I did a hard reboot and it started up just fine.
When I go into software update is says there's an update it wants to do tonight.
I might kick it off manually before I go to bed.
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I did a hard reboot and it started up just fine.
When I go into software update is says there's an update it wants to do tonight.
I might kick it off manually before I go to bed.
wrote on 15 Dec 2020, 17:25 last edited by CopperI think maybe 2 out of 3 updates freeze like that on my Mac
I'll give it a couple hours when it seems frozen, I have seen it un-freeze after an hour or more
Then I just power it off and back on and it recovers. I figure at some point there is no other choice