MacOS – Upgrade to MacOS Mojave is stuck at calculating
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I am downloading MacOS Mojave. The total size of the download is 6.02GB. Although 6.02GB is downloaded in app store the progress is stuck at calculating.
Its been two hours like this. Please suggest what to do.
Best Answer
Went to Purchased screen.... Clicked on "Pause" while holding down Shift key. It killed the download process. Then went back and Featured and chose "Free upgrade". The process started where it left.
I finally managed to resolve this problem by attempting to see if I could use MacOS Recovery to reinstall the existing OS, if this was still possible.
Recovering the existing OS seemed not to be possible, but I was able to unlock and mount the laptop's drive (which seemed to be the point where the previous OS upgrade attempt had failed) using the recovery system's Disk Utility, and then use the internet recovery option to install MacOS High Sierra via the internet.
The installation was successful this time, the drive was converted from HFS Plus to APFS successfully, and my data was preserved.
I would wait as long as possible. When you force shut down a computer that’s in the middle of an update, you’re likely going to have to do recovery and reinstall the OS. I did hear of one case where that wasn’t necessary, but usually that’s the case.
Best Answer
Went to Purchased screen.... Clicked on "Pause" while holding down Shift key. It killed the download process. Then went back and Featured and chose "Free upgrade". The process started where it left.