The Catalina installation seems to be stuck for hours with:
“Estimating time remaining...”
I don’t recall having an installation on previous OSs taking so long.
Forced reboot and back to the same stage.
Anybody?
Solved.
The process is long. Like very loooooooooooong. Longer than any other OS I’ve installed (except Windows).
I just let it sit and do its thing. Overall it took about 3 hours.
Solution: Go old school grab a book. And wait
Curious, did it finish on it's own or did you reboot?
can anyone look at this and tell if it will be moving on or not?
thanks
Sorry posting twice
Mine took about an hour to install but the progress bar had to start over several times and attempting to get more info with command or control L didn't work.
stuck here
safe mode not working
Any update on how to fix? I have restored mine from a back up and tried re-installing the update and are stuck again for over 24 hours. Very frustrated right now with Apple.
Same problem for me!
Uhh! Came here seeing the same screen for about 5 minutes, but I got away in 30 minutes. Looks like Apple was too kind to me.
This was resolved 2 months ago. It was just a super slow installation.
A restart didn’t work for me and it’s been well over 72 hours of waiting now. Exactly HOW slow is this installation???
Mine took 4 days!
How did you reboot out of Calculating? (catalina)
Thanks
Sam
It’s been almost 24 hrs and the bar has not moved. How long did yours take overall?
It never got there - TWICE
After about two hours of seemingly no progress, I restarted. I don't really consider this a good thing to do during a system installation but this seemed to get things going. At least a message came up saying 32 minutes remaining – although it still took over an hour after that.
I think Apple needs to put a more senior developer on the install process to reassure the user that things are working and give progress.
Catalina installation stuck
