Im on a 2016 15inch MBP. The install progress has been stuck in the same spot for over 30 minutes... anyone else have this issue?
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High Sierra Install Frozen?
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I just finished installing, it took about an 1hr to install on my 2016 MBP TB. The long wait may be due to converting the drive from HFS+ to the new APFS.
I’ve been looking at a bar half full with a message stating “calculating time remaining.....” for the past 45 minutes.
Is this normal?
Is this normal?
Right above the R in progress
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Same here
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How full was your SSD?
My MacBook Pro has been saying 13 minutes remaining and not appaearing to move forward for an hour now. I’m trying to be patient. Lol.
OP, depending on how full your SSD is (how many files), that install process can take a long time. Mine only took 20-25mins after the download, but you may have more data on the drive than I do. I’d say just hang in there. At times it’ll look like it’s not doing anything, but it’ll get there!
Ya, you have much more data than I do. I'd guess that the conversion to APFS is just taking longer because of the TB of data it has to deal with. Mine even sat for a while and appeared to be hung, but then suddenly moved on to the next step of initialization.
How did you do that? Step by step?
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I hope so. Like a idiot I didn’t back-up before the install. I got too excited
Updating my 2017 MBP seemed to be going really slow and hanging up at a few points. It didn't restart on its own and then when I restarted it manually the time remaining was all over the place. It said "less than a minute" a few times and then would jump to "15 minutes" or "calculating time remaining" but I just waited it out and it finished in about an hour and everything is working fine.
I waited 1.5 hour and also search for some solution, but it finished. Installation is just pretty slow so hold on.
Try Command and ‘L’ to see what’s happening. If nothing, hold down power button until it turns off. Next, turn the Mac back on and wait to see if the progress bar moves again.
I finally ended up canceling and restarting the install. I was stuck at 13 minutes for a long time. Now it’s at the black screen with the Apple logo. Hopefully this will go through now. ETA 41 minutes now.
UPDATE: All updated. Now I just need to update my iMac when I get home. Good luck everyone!
UPDATE: All updated. Now I just need to update my iMac when I get home. Good luck everyone!
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I had the same problem as you. The only way now is to press command + R when it's starting, you will enter recovery mode and from there you can either try to lunch the installer again or to back up from a time machine.
Will all my current files still be in place? Or will the install from recovery delete them. I have client jobs on there
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If you have a back up you will keep the files you had. If not, I am afraid you will lose the files. I didn't have a backup before, so I lost all my files
