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My update experience for Catalina was like so: 1. Download 8GB on Australian internet. 2. Wait 7 hours. 2. "Sorry there was an error". 3. Download again. 4
by treelovinhippie 7y ago
My update experience for Catalina was like so:
1. Download 8GB on Australian internet.
2. Wait 7 hours.
2. "Sorry there was an error".
3. Download again.
4. "You need 1GB more free space".
5. Clears 1GB of space.
6. Ok installing, restarts.
7. "You ran out of disk space". Only one button: [restart].
8. Restarts.
9. "You ran out of disk space". Only one button: [restart].
10. Search for solution, find dozens of others with the same problem. I had to do a time machine backup restore. Cleared 16GB of space and it worked.
- cryptozeus 7y agoI mean you clearly 8gb is needed, this is not apple problem.
- treelovinhippie 7y agoYou've misunderstood. I had cleared enough space for the update to give the go ahead. Then during the installation it ran out of space and got stuck in an infinite restart loop. So clearly the Catalina update requires much more free space than it says it does before allowing the installation to continue. Just poor software development and lack of testing. Here's a Reddit thread of people with the same problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/deuwsa/help_stuck_in_catalina_update_boot_loop_because/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/deuwsa/help_stuck_in...
- h1d 7y agoUmm, no... The OS can detect the free space to decide whether it's a go or not and it still borked.