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After installation, OS taking long to come up

After I did an installation of mojave successfully, it has been booting for close to 3hours now... please I want to know if it's copying my files to the OS or it's an error?.. Cos my files is close to 400gb on a 500gb hdd.


MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jan 26, 2020 3:29 PM

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Posted on Jan 26, 2020 3:48 PM

Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities> Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


If no errors were found, you can reninstall the macOS on top of your existing macOS—

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904




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Jan 26, 2020 3:48 PM in response to benlex5

Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities> Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


If no errors were found, you can reninstall the macOS on top of your existing macOS—

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904




Jan 26, 2020 3:35 PM in response to benlex5

benlex5 wrote:

After I did an installation of mojave successfully, it has been booting for close to 3hours now... please I want to know if it's copying my files to the OS or it's an error?.. Cos my files is close to 400gb on a 500gb hdd.


3 hour is a long time.


You can force quit the machine holding the power button/touchID ~10 sec. to force a shut down.


Reboot and see where it leaves you. Most times it boots up fine that second time around.


report back your success or failure.

After installation, OS taking long to come up

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