Getting an error after downloading 15.1
Failed to prepare the software update. Please try again.
An error occurred while downloading the selected updates. Please check your internet connection and try again.
MacBook Pro 15″ 2018
OS 15.0.1 (24A348)
Internet is fine, 60gb free space
Appreciate any suggestions
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 15.0
There are factors:
Some which are beyond your control and those with are totally under your control
Slow wifi connection
Too many other people downloading at the same time and Apple Servers are overloaded
Software on the computer interfering with the download process including AntiVirus Software
Notation: Disabling the AV Software may or may not solve the issue.
Removal of the AV Software may increase the chances of the download to perform as expected.
Running behind a VPN which may increase Packet losses or corruption of the download
If via wifi & too many Other devices using the wifi at the same time reducing the Bandwidth to your computer.
Best Results are via Ethernet Cable to Router
Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal
Try Again using the Software Update Applet in System Preferences / Setting
Worst case - Restart in Recovery Mode and choose Reinstall macOS.
This in theory will pull the latest version of macOS this computer qualifies to run
Tried that as well, didn’t work unfortunately
The softwareupdate command posted in the 1 st page of this thread was super helpful. Not that I can update :-( but, it lets me know that it keeps loosing the connection.
Same here. I'm on a M1 macbook pro 2020, and it gives the same error.
Update to 15.1.1 and it’s the same all over again. What’s Apple doing? Not even Internet recovery works.
I think it’s an issue with Intel macs and booting from an external drive, like I do …
Doesn’t work for me, shame …
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