Update downloaded but takes forever long to apply. why?

clicked HELP, ABOUT FIREFOX
update downloaded, about 2-4 Mb
asked to apply.
Click apply.
The update takes runs but takes forever long. I never wait till it finishes.Don't know how long I should wait.

If it is progressing I would let it finish. Otherwise I would terminate and try here before "erasing" ( I assume you mean placing in recovery mode) and then restoring.
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If you just got your new MBP you have phone support from Apple (which is quite good) call them. 800-692-7753 tell the automated answerer "mail technical support" you'll have human quite quickly. Hope this helps.

I was doing OS5 help update iphone but now no longer connects to PC and iTunes does not see the phone

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Hold Sleep Button with Home Button toghether until it restarts Always it takes 8 to 15 seconds, after it restarts leave the sleep button and remember do not leave the home button it automaticlly switches to DFU mode.

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Why is my iMac so slow now? Ever since I did the latest system update yesterday everything takes forever.

Ever since doing the recommended system update yesterday, my iMac has been e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y s-l-o-w. I get a spinning beachball with every mouse click, even just clicking on a red dot to close a window. Any suggestions?

Try Applejack.
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/
Article on using:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10334620-263.html?tag=mfiredir
It runs in single user mode. After installing (you won't see it in the Applications Folder) hold CMD-S at startup. You will get a black screen with MS-DOS like text. Just follow the prompts: type in "applejack AUTO" and it will run through the following:
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
You can also run tasks selectively and for specific users by typing in "applejack." After running in "AUTO," you can go back and run it again as "applejack," steps 3 & 4 only, for your user.
The first reboot will take much longer than usual, as it rebuilds caches. It may take several restarts to see the benefits. Because of the deep cache cleaning in AUTO mode some applications may tell you they are being opened for the first time.
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Also, try applying the 10.6.8 Combo update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399

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Does updating to Maverick OS take a long time?

When I frist installed it (not counting download time which was about 30 minutes) I believe that the actual installation time was about 50 minutes. First reading was "About 35 minutes..." I think, but, in total, it took about 50 minutes.
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Trying to download a movie but it take a long time (been 8 hours), not sure if it the wifi speed. Any insight?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
The first thing to check would be your internet download speed, you can do this at www.speedtest.net.
1080p HD movies require a recommended speed of 8 Mbps, 720p HD movies require a recommended speed of 6 Mbps, while SD movies require a recommended speed of 2.5 Mbps.

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I have a Mini directly connected to a wireless router and a Powerbook wirelessly connected. My ISP is Telus in Vancouver. My speeds are excellent but connecting itself takes forever it seems. When I click a link on a web page the staus bar reports "looking up hostname". It can take anywhere from 20 seconds to two minutes to load the page.
I thought the problem was with Telus but when a friend brought over his PC laptop it made connections with great speed. So now I assume it's a Mac issue. It affects both my Macs.
Telus can't help me. Their support suggested resetting the browsers but as I knew in advance it didn't make any difference. It affects all browsers on both machines.
Apple support didn't even seem to understand what I was talking about.
I posted a query at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14879923 and got this reply: [quote]Well, I have some bad news and some worse news.
The bad news is, this is a MacOS problem. And yes, it is DNS.
The worse news is that getting a local DNS server will likely not fix the problem.
I had a G3 iBook for a while and I noticed this problem (I think I had OS X 10.0.3.) I don't have it anymore cause it was too frustrating. Literally, my P2-266 notebook with 64M RAM browsed the web a **** of a lot faster than the G3-500 with 384M RAM.
I got so frustrated and installed linux on the iBook and all those problems went away.
One of the problems may have been IPv6, but you mentioned that you disabled it.
The other issue was DNS lookup. It wasn't the DNS lookup that was the problem, but it was the reverse DNS lookup. When you connect to your ISP the ISP assigns you a hostname. It seems that OS X isn't setting this hostname to your computer. When you connect to a site, the site may have to look up the DNS for the hostname your ISP assigned to you, and because OS X doesn't seem to set it, it's them timing out trying to get your IP.
Seriously, if you google something like 'ibook slow dns' you'll get a TON of hits.
Is there something in the DHCP that you can enable that will let the ISP set your hostname?
Of course, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone else will point it out, but slow web browsing and DNS are a common complaint on the Macs.
Edit: I used Mac OS for about 4 days before giving up on it, so I won't be much help beyond this, but at least it gives you another path to look at.[/quote]
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I thought the problem was with Telus but when a
friend brought over his PC laptop it made connections
with great speed. So now I assume it's a Mac issue.
It affects both my Macs.
Try manually entering your DNS servers in sys prefs->network-> configure -> tcp/ip
There seems to be quite a few posts where OS X is not getting or setting name servers properly via DHCP.
Personally, I have never had a problem like this, so I don't know what's causing this. There are a few possibilities.
If your ISP's DHCP server and the OS X dhcp client are not communicating properly, that could lead to problems like this. Now, where is the fault in that scenario ? Could be the ISP using a crappy DHCP server, or it could be OS X dhcp client being to strict in what it will accept from the dhcp server, or it could be the fault of the dhcp client entirely. But it's probably not going to be resolved until someone who knows how to debug it is having this issue and takes the time to debug it.
I posted a query at
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14879923 and
got this reply: [quote]Well, I have some bad news and
<snip>
The other issue was DNS lookup. It wasn't the DNS
lookup that was the problem, but it was the reverse
DNS lookup. When you connect to your ISP the ISP
assigns you a hostname. It seems that OS X isn't
setting this hostname to your computer. When you
connect to a site, the site may have to look up the
DNS for the hostname your ISP assigned to you, and
because OS X doesn't seem to set it, it's them timing
out trying to get your IP.
This explanation is just plain wrong, and, as was also pointed out, applying to a much older OS.

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Time Machine/Time Capsule backups successful, but take a long time

I purchased a 512GB Time Capsule about a year ago. Since I got it, backups have been successful, but very slow. An average backup takes about 40-50 minutes, usually for less than 20 MB transferred.
Here are a couple summaries of recent backups (see end of post for full logs):
BACKUP 1:
11 minutes to detect if pre-backup thinning was necessary
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5 minutes to copy 5.4 MB
4 minutes to start post-backup thinning
2 minutes to delete 1 expired backup
There were no error messages.
BACKUP 2:
4 minutes to detect if pre-backup thinning was necessary
12 minutes to copy 15 MB
5 minutes to detect if pre-backup thinning was necessary
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My Time Capsule is placed about 5 feet from my laptop, with no obstructions between them. I don't think it's a wireless speed issue, because I use the Time Capsule as my router, and my connection to the net is fine. Also, operations that don't require wireless connections, like detecting pre-backup thinning, also take a long time.
Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong to cause my regular backups to take so long?
BACKUP 1:
14/09/09 2:09:47 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Starting standard backup
14/09/09 2:09:55 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Peter%[email protected]/turban
14/09/09 2:09:55 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/turban
14/09/09 2:10:02 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Disk image /Volumes/turban/buttercup_001ec2146608.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup
14/09/09 2:10:02 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb
14/09/09 2:21:15 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] No pre-backup thinning needed: 860.3 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
14/09/09 2:39:05 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Copied 12159 files (281.3 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 2:39:08 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] No pre-backup thinning needed: 529.5 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
14/09/09 2:44:18 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Copied 11775 files (5.4 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 2:48:43 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Starting post-backup thinning
14/09/09 2:50:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb/buttercup/2009-09-13-132947: 280.02 GB now available
14/09/09 2:50:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
14/09/09 2:50:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Backup completed successfully.
14/09/09 2:50:18 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
14/09/09 2:50:22 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[18612] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
BACKUP 2:
14/09/09 9:09:46 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Starting standard backup
14/09/09 9:09:54 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Peter%[email protected]/turban
14/09/09 9:09:54 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/turban
14/09/09 9:10:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Disk image /Volumes/turban/buttercup_001ec2146608.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup
14/09/09 9:10:10 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb
14/09/09 9:14:06 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] No pre-backup thinning needed: 542.2 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
14/09/09 9:23:27 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:23:27 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:24:30 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:24:30 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:26:00 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Copied 1223 files (15.3 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 9:31:35 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] No pre-backup thinning needed: 527.5 MB requested (including padding), 280.02 GB available
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:07 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
14/09/09 9:46:20 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Copied 11336 files (3.8 MB) from volume butternut.
14/09/09 9:47:06 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Starting post-backup thinning
14/09/09 9:49:14 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of buttercup/Backups.backupdb/buttercup/2009-09-13-082428: 280.02 GB now available
14/09/09 9:49:14 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
14/09/09 9:49:15 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Backup completed successfully.
14/09/09 9:49:19 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
14/09/09 9:49:25 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[15833] Ejected Time Machine network volume.

peterjm wrote:
I checked all of the steps in #D2 of the Troubleshooting Guide.
One other thing thing you might try, is a +*Verify Disk+* (not permissions) on your internal HD. That will not take anything like 40 hours! If it reports problems, you'll have to boot from your Install disc and use it's copy of DU to repair it. Post back if you need to do this but aren't sure how.
I think it's very fishy that Repair Disk took 40 hours -- it seems like any operation that touches the hard drive on the Time Capsule takes a long time. Maybe the hard drive is having problems? What sort of problems could a drive have that would make everything VERY slow, but still successful?
Try connecting via an Ethernet cable; see what effect that has. Everything should be faster, of course, but not wildly. Just as an example, I'm doing backups to a USB hard drive via my Airport Extreme, about 15 feet from my iMac. When I first started that way, I did a full backup via Ethernet (about 21 gb/hour), then erased it and ran again wirelessly (about 12 gb/hour).
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