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macOS Big Sur Installation Failed: 'An Error Occurred While Installing the Selected Updates'
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Gave up yesterday, tried again this morning 7:30 UK time and download in 10-15 minutes and installed on 2014 MacBook Air in under an hour. Shame they had the server issues yesterday as today download and install was very smooth, from what I can tell so far it is working well and no issues.
You've been lucky then. Still not working for me. Pages / Numbers / Keynote updates also hanging. Numbers has finally updated, but not the other two.
Thats a shame, took mine about half an hour including the download. Hope you have better luck.
I had the exact same issue at around 1:00 AM GMT. What I did is hit the wee x button on the right of the download progress bar, and then trigger a new upgrade (download). The download was quick (on 500Mbs internet), and then in about 30s after getting to the 12.18GB mark, it moved to the installation bit. Some people also tried just restarting the machine, and then they got the installation screen automatically. Worth trying either/both. Best of luck!
The Apple System Status page now shows an updated timeframe for when the software update problem was being experienced yesterday, through 5:15 PM (U.S. Pacific time). A few hours ago this had not been reflecting the continued problems that many here were experiencing.
I rebooted after I was stuck on 12.18gb for a few minutes and got impatient. Only needed to redownload and it was much faster, within a few minutes. No more issues.
I think most OS X and now XI updates usually require a reboot, I can recall it.
I went in to recovery at 1am last night reinstalled a copy of catalina and Big Sur downloaded fine taking about an hour to download and install, had to manually update iWork apps though this morning, but now its all done it looks great and seems smooth to use with a few bumps here and there, better than Catalina at this stage. Total mess though yesterday well done Apple.
This fixed the same stuck Apple logo screen for me too, thank you.
Only just back up and running but so far, not a fan of the icons at all. Some of them feel very dated. The battery and notifications icon in system pref are particularly awful imo.
I also don't like how far apart the icons are on the top right of the menu bar.
Still, time to have a proper look around and see whats what 🙂
Use First Aid in disk utility and see if it helps. I use it and backup before major updates.
I did it last night. Half an hour past midnight. UK, of course. Try again.... It has to work for you as well.
Please elaborate on #1. I thought Fusion now has a free version for personal use (non-Pro). I downloaded and installed it a month ago or so.
Which version of Fusion did you have installed before the upgrade to Big Slur?
I'm still stuck at the Downloading process at 12.8GB, I've been waiting for almost 40 + mins ... 🥺
