{"id":27665,"date":"2019-12-23T16:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27665"},"modified":"2019-12-23T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:23:03","slug":"what-to-do-when-a-macos-update-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/what-to-do-when-a-macos-update-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When a macOS Update Goes Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/12\/21\/what-to-do-when-a-macos-update-goes-wrong-catalina-edition\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/12\/21\/what-to-do-when-a-macos-update-goes-wrong-catalina-edition\/\">\n<p>When you&rsquo;re ready, in most cases the best thing to try next is to <strong>start up in Safe mode<\/strong>, which is explained <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2016\/08\/24\/playing-safe-what-does-safe-mode-do\/\">in full here<\/a> We often don&rsquo;t do that properly, and it&rsquo;s worth following Apple&rsquo;s instructions very carefully[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If Safe mode makes little or no difference, the next thing to try is downloading a standalone version of the update and installing that.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In Catalina, one unique problem which can occur is that spurious additional volumes are created by the installer. To discover whether that has happened, check your boot disk using <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/12\/18\/making-sense-of-disk-utility-and-disk-structure-in-macos-10-13-10-15\/\">Disk Utility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/dont-interrupt-the-installation\/\">Don&rsquo;t Interrupt the Installation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: When you&rsquo;re ready, in most cases the best thing to try next is to start up in Safe mode, which is explained in full here We often don&rsquo;t do that properly, and it&rsquo;s worth following Apple&rsquo;s instructions very carefully[&#8230;] [&#8230;] If Safe mode makes little or no difference, the next thing to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-23T21:23:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"652373d9-71af-462d-8dcf-655a74973311","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-23T21:23:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZSNz2XGvRi2Nz2VadJczEQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1780,30,1666],"class_list":["post-27665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-installer","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27666,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions\/27666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}