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SATopWater Author

Level 1

9 points

Yosemite Upgrade - iMac mid-2011 - Stuck on white progress bar screen at about 50%

I have a mid 2011 iMac. I started the upgrade to Yosemite about 4 hours ago. For the last 3 and 1/2 hours it's been "stuck" at the white progress bar screen at about 50%. I hear the harddrive occasionally do reading/writing, but it isn't doing a lot just a tiny bit. I've seen others post across the net with similar situations, but no solutions. I'm willing to wait, but would love to know if it's actually proceeding or simply in some infinite loop.

Anyone know how to tell if it's in a loop or proceeding?

Anyone have any ideas on things to try?

I really don't want to try and interrupt the upgrade, but it doesn't appear it's going to complete.

Ideas?

Thanks for any help you all can provide.

Perry

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Upgrade Stuck

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 10:28 AM

114 replies

Aug 2, 2015 9:46 AM in response to SATopWater

After 36 hours of awaiting this worked for me.

Stress doesn't help finding things the restart portion meant going to the top main menu click in the Apple then taking restart.

I kept thinking restart the install, off of the menu shown.

Thank you for this great help Apple should have done this.

Aug 5, 2015 10:10 AM in response to SATopWater

Another happy follower! Thank you SATopWater. You are a lifesaver.

Aug 9, 2015 10:38 AM in response to SATopWater

The above happened to me too. My Macpro froze when upgarding to Yosemite.

Followed the instructions above and all worked fine .

Was a little worried when after pressing Cmd R it didnt seem to do anything but released after 3 minutes and got the reinstall screen.

then disabled wi fi and ran the yosemite upgarde again from the startup disc.

Rebooted in less than 10 minutes.

Thank you

Lola

Aug 15, 2015 8:47 AM in response to SATopWater

Thanks for posting this. Mine also stuck and this fixed it.

Aug 17, 2015 5:03 PM in response to SATopWater

Thanks so much! This solved it!

boillum

Level 1

0 points

Aug 19, 2015 4:11 AM in response to SATopWater

Great stuff. Great help!

Genie26

Level 1

10 points

Sep 8, 2015 12:17 PM in response to SATopWater

Thanks it work éd allo for IMac 2011.

cpBravo

Level 1

0 points

Sep 18, 2015 3:26 AM in response to SATopWater

OMG...!!! THANKS A LOT ...!!! YOU SAVED MY JOB 🙂😍

THANKS A MILLION !!!!

JKN000

Level 1

0 points

Sep 26, 2015 8:44 PM in response to SATopWater

This procedure worked for me as well. Apple owes SATopWater some sort of payment in my opinion for helping god knows how many Apple customers out of this fiasco when Apple itself seems clueless.

Yosemite Upgrade - iMac mid-2011 - Stuck on white progress bar screen at about 50%