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macOS Big Sur Installation Failed: 'An Error Occurred While Installing the Selected Updates'
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For me as well, but it shows green on their status page....so their status page is not up-to-date
OK, while this does piss me off, I don't think it has anything to do with Big Sur. It's a larger issue, which might not even be directly Apple's fault. Clearly some servers are seriously falling over, some they might not have control over. God only knows where all these data centres are and how the network is set up. Redundancy doesn't 100% cover all scenarios.
This reminds me of the Youtube outage yesterday. 2020 has been a crazy year.
Anyone know where the download file is stored so I can delete it?
Apple need more efforts to load balancing their server networks traffic, especially with so many concurrent update taking on almost entire globe.
Does not download in Safe Mode. Does not matter how much bandwidth you have, or space available on you Mac. The software simply does not download / allow for upgrade to take place. I'm stopping my attempts until there is a clear signal from Apple that all is fine. I've wasted too much time assessing their problem.
I find it hard to accept that Apple's servers (or AWS, or whatever they use) can't handle a few thousand of us nerds wanting to download their new OS on launch day. Surely a popular reality show on Netflix must be a far bigger burden on bandwidth?
Does anyone else remember when people chose Apple computers because their software was more reliable than Windows? Would not factor into my decision on a new purchase these days!
From other post I think almost 90% of people have ha this come up. Ive been trying to download since 1pm EST. I got up to 12GB and then it error out.
Both my Macs have this issue as well. Disconnect from the internet and things will work again. So bizarre.
Apple: “We’re pushing heavily into streaming and cloud services”
also Apple: “We left the networking market and you can’t download our OS”
also Apple: “We left the networking market and you can’t download our OS”
I get installation failed msg after a long download time (I don't think complete) - do I just wait until _ maybe tomorrow. Hope I don't have to restore my mac to last backup (just did before I started upgrade fortunately). Hope it resolves itself.
The instant gratification is real lol. I'm just gonna try again tomorrow.
Thank you for this.Apple - Support - System Status
Status for all planned and unplanned events for Apple Services.www.apple.com
I didn't even attempt to do any updates and this has caused my Mac Pro to run GLACIALLY slow.
I rebooted and every app took several minutes to just load.
As soon as I unplug my ethernet cable, everything launches and works at normal speed.
Plug the ethernet back in and BAM, the whole machine is incredibly slow.
I even see the seconds on my system clock freeze for a few seconds.
This is tanking machines that aren't even trying to run an update.
I rebooted and every app took several minutes to just load.
As soon as I unplug my ethernet cable, everything launches and works at normal speed.
Plug the ethernet back in and BAM, the whole machine is incredibly slow.
I even see the seconds on my system clock freeze for a few seconds.
This is tanking machines that aren't even trying to run an update.
Apple - Support - System Status
Status for all planned and unplanned events for Apple Services.
Then two minutes later more outages, bad day for Apple.
Me too. Message received Apple. Wait another month before attempting to install Big Sur.... 🥺
