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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur With Fresh Design, Control Center, Safari Privacy Report, Messages Updates, Maps Overhaul and More

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Progress!

It's coming quite fast now...

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"Sleep faster, we need the bed!" - Groucho Marx


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At around 500 Mb it stated 3 days remaining. It skipped to 1.67Gb and suddenly the remaining time dropped to 11 hours..
So there is hope....
 
if you guys check activity monitor and network, you should have a rough idea of how the download is going even though the dialog itself is stuck
 
It would be very helpful if you lot stopped downloading it. My laptop will take an estimated 15 hours because of you!
 
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Here in Belgium it was zipping along - now it's stalled again (am on 2.48GB)
 
Pretty sure that Apple leverages AWS and it is just hammering cloudfront right now. I would imagine that as the CDN updates we should see things pick up speedwise.
 
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Tale of two computers...

My work MacBook Pro, hardwired directly into my home router, is doing what everyone else is reporting - seemingly stalled and updating in small increments every now and then. I am upgrading from the latest version of Catalina to Big Sur on my MacBook Pro.

My personal iMac, which is connected to my home network wirelessly AND was running the public beta of Big Sir, is merrily downloading normally it appears. I started the download for it 10 minutes before the one on my MacBook Pro and it is already ahead of it 5.81GBs to 346MBs.

Sure hope I can copy the downloaded installer from my iMac to my MacBook Pro (and other computers that need to be upgraded in my house.)
 
UGH!!! After an hour of downloading (with 14 hours to go), it stopped and gave me an error that it was unable to update my OS. Have to start downloading again from the beginning. WTH? This is on a late-2013 MBP (Retina)
 
It'll show up eventually guys. Apple won't roll this out to everyone at the same time and crash their servers. You may see it in the App Store and try to click on it, but if you don't see it when you go to Apple Menu > About This Mac > Software Update, then it hasn't been made available in your area yet.
 
beryllium said:
All the best for the early adopters... I will wait a few days, just to be prudent.
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Been using it since the first beta and havent had any workflow breaking bugs so think its quite sage to update to the release version
 
It looks like I was able to begin the downloading process through terminal!

REDACTED@REDACTED ~ % sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 11.0.1


Password:


Downloading and installing 11.0.1 installer


SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"


SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"


Installing: 4.0%
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Great. I only have 2 days remaining of the download. Thought my 1000 Mbit connection would be helpful, but turns out someone is stepping on the hose somewhere between me and Cupertino.
 
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