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Bigsur updating "Installation failed"

I have a 2019 macbook pro and I tried to update to big sur the past 6 days and each time it keeps telling me "Installation failed: An error has occured while installing the selected updates." I heard apple has fixed this but it still is not working for me.


Mac Pro

Posted on Nov 18, 2020 5:41 PM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2020 1:34 PM

Try installing this in Safe Mode...


Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup).

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Bigsur updating "Installation failed"

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