How long is this "Optimizing Your Mac" going to stay up?
So, how long is this "Optimizing Your Mac" notification going to stay up? It has been 12 hours now...
Is it still working? How much longer?
I'm upgrading my Mac Pro 13" Mid-2012 with a hard drive just over half full.
CMD+R does help, but I did not need to re-install the OS; I just rebooted from the recovery screen which appeared and it worked. I waited hours on the 'optimizing' dialog and, while that was happening BOX Sync would not work, and more...
Now, two folders which contain Apple TV Photo Cache describe themselves as 'UNIX Executable File' which, when selected, do try to run from a command line, and that simply fails. Now, I'll have to waste more time I wish I could bill somebody for to figure out that problem, too.
I've noticed that Apple is slowly, but surely, acting more and more like Microsoft -- severe problems with iTunes across all OS, glitchy upgrades like this one.... That never, ever happened when Jobs was alive. Best guess, he used to test everything himself and made phone calls if he saw anything like what we're talking about here.
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