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Catalina installation stuck

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?

Posted on Oct 7, 2019 3:59 PM

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Posted on Oct 10, 2019 5:38 AM

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.

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Catalina installation stuck

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