Latest update installation time

[Georgiacx]

Hi all,
Am new here so hopefully this is the correct place to post. This evening I installed the 10.9.1 update and it is taking an extremely long time to update. I already had mavericks before this... Did anyone else deal with extremely long installation times? Not sure what to do.

 

[Shrink]

Hi all,
Am new here so hopefully this is the correct place to post. This evening I installed the 10.9.1 update and it is taking an extremely long time to update. I already had mavericks before this... Did anyone else deal with extremely long installation times? Not sure what to do.

How long is a "long time"?

 

[maflynn]

What's extremely long?

At what stage are you at, that's taking a long time?

 

[Georgiacx]

Sorry it has been a couple of hours and just has "Installing 1 item" nothing has changed for about 2 hours or so now.. Just wondering how long it took everyone else to install the update?

 

[Weaselboy]

Sorry it has been a couple of hours and just has "Installing 1 item" nothing has changed for about 2 hours or so now.. Just wondering how long it took everyone else to install the update?

That is not normal. Mine took a few minutes tops. I would force a restart and hold down the command-r keys at reboot to get to the recovery console. Then start Disk Utility and do a repair disk to fix any disk errors you may have. Then quit Disk Utility and restart then try the update again.

 

[martosprint]

I had a minor problem with the download. After clicking on software update a box popped up saying some updates had to be downloaded first. Well in that same box there was an option that read Not Now or Download and Restart. I clicked on download and restart and nothing was happening after a good half hour. The mouse wasn't responding and the download seemed to freeze up. So what I had to do was force quit the download. After it forced quit I went up to the  and clicked on software update and low and behold it showed the download in progress and all was well.

 

[Gochugogi]

I had a minor problem with the download. After clicking on software update a box popped up saying some updates had to be downloaded first. Well in that same box there was an option that read Not Now or Download and Restart. I clicked on download and restart and nothing was happening after a good half hour. The mouse wasn't responding and the download seemed to freeze up. So what I had to do was force quit the download. After it forced quit I went up to the  and clicked on software update and low and behold it showed the download in progress and all was well.

Mine took a couple minutes and a restart.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

VERY quick for me. 2 minutes, tops, to install, plus reboot time after that.