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Upgrade to El Capitan stalled

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Radrick

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Oct 2, 2015
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I am in the process of upgrading my Mac mini (Yosemite) to El Capitan and I am stuck at the Terms and Conditions screen. I can read the documentation (scrolls no problem) but the Agree button does not respond. Neither does the Back button. It has been sitting at this screen for almost 2 hours.
What should I do?

TIA
 
Radrick said:
I am in the process of upgrading my Mac mini (Yosemite) to El Capitan and I am stuck at the Terms and Conditions screen. I can read the documentation (scrolls no problem) but the Agree button does not respond. Neither does the Back button. It has been sitting at this screen for almost 2 hours.
What should I do?

TIA
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After about 4 hours, I decided to force a power off.
When it rebooted, it said let's take a tour of El Capitan!
I have not done much with it yet, but the important stuff (wifi, Safari) seem to work OK.
 
Radrick said:
I am in the process of upgrading my Mac mini (Yosemite) to El Capitan and I am stuck at the Terms and Conditions screen. I can read the documentation (scrolls no problem) but the Agree button does not respond. Neither does the Back button. It has been sitting at this screen for almost 2 hours.
What should I do?

TIA
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Almost the same for me. Download successful, but when clicked to install (game the password for my computer) nothing happened. Can't find the download. App Store said already "Downloaded" so can't download again. Said my software was up to date.
 
Try unplugging any connected peripherals like external drives, scanners, etc. and do a reboot with the computer unattached to anything. I have the same problem but that works for me.
 
My situation is different. The download apparently succeeded but when I went to install, everything disappeared after I entered the password to my computer, to allow the installation. I went back to do a download again and it said El Capital was already downloaded. But I can't find it. It doesn't appear in the Downloads folder. I guess I'm just going to have to wait till Apple issues and update and then hope the whole download happens again.
 
jeremyhughes said:
My situation is different. The download apparently succeeded but when I went to install, everything disappeared after I entered the password to my computer, to allow the installation. I went back to do a download again and it said El Capital was already downloaded. But I can't find it. It doesn't appear in the Downloads folder. I guess I'm just going to have to wait till Apple issues and update and then hope the whole download happens again.
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Apple OS installers download to the Applications folder. Look for "Install OS X El Capitan" in the Applications folder. The full installer should be about 6 Gb. The installer will auto delete after it is used.
 
Radrick said:
After about 4 hours, I decided to force a power off.
When it rebooted, it said let's take a tour of El Capitan!
I have not done much with it yet, but the important stuff (wifi, Safari) seem to work OK.
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Thank you for this. I was also stuck at 'Terms and Conditions' with no ability to go forward or back. I forced shutdown and rebooted and everything seems fine.

I originally upgraded to El Capitan via a local account, no problems.
I then added a new administrative iCloud account and restarted.
I was unable to log in via the new iCloud account because it would not recognize my password.
So, I re-logged in via the local account, then I switch users to the iCloud account and it then recognized the password.

At this point I was asked to setup my iCloud account and it took me to the 'Terms and Conditions' page where I became stuck.

Thanks to your OP and solution, after force restart I am able to correctly login via the iCloud account and everything appears to be working. I have yet to see the 'Terms and Conditions' page again.
 
I believe nothing downloaded from the App Store ever stores itself in the Downloads folder.
 
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