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My MacBook has been sitting on Installing Software Update: About 16 minutes for over an hour what can I do?

My MacBook has been Sitting on the screen saying ‘Installing Software Update: About 16 minutes’ for more than an hour. How can I resolve this?

Posted on Jan 7, 2020 2:06 PM

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Posted on Jan 7, 2020 5:12 PM

Which Update? Some may take hours, but if it seems to be going nowhere you'll have to pwer off & try again in Safe Mode...


Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?

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My MacBook has been sitting on Installing Software Update: About 16 minutes for over an hour what can I do?

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