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My Catalina update is stuck! What to do?

My Catalina update is stuck on ‘Setting up your Mac’. It has been stuck here for about 24 hours. The wheel goes round. It says ‘setting up ...’ What to do?

iMac Pro

Posted on Oct 10, 2019 10:03 AM

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Oct 12, 2019 7:19 AM in response to Flipmercer

Try Safe Mode as per > Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, then I would try Reinstalling macOS and Restoring from my Time Machine backup.

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support


If you can not see your Macintosh HD startup disk or fully install macOS onto it, then it sounds like you may have a hardware problem that needs to be checked out.

My Catalina update is stuck! What to do?

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