Hello Craig, As a new Mac user, you should be extremely proud of yourself. It takes a lot of guts to install a new OS, especially after so short of a time at the helm.
Just think about it, both you and I came up with the exact same solution and I've been doing this for over 7 years; I don't know if that says more about you or about me (big, big smile). My point is that, in my opinion, you did the correct thing in powering down the computer and rebooting. As for how the OS was successfully installed, suffice me to say that all of the proverbial heavy-lifting was already done by the time the setup assistant was launched. This is just a guess but I suspect that the problem for both of us was simply some kind of a video display glitch. Generally speaking, the setup assistant assesses what passwords and such need to be entered by the user before proceeding. However, all of the mission-crucial tasks have already been completed. After my reboot, I received a couple of password prompts that I would probably have received during the setup process, nothing more. Finally, as for the issues you are encountering, if you feel up to it, I would appreciate it if you would begin a new thread detailing them so we can all compare notes, as it were. Craig, well done on your installation and, if I have not expressed the sentiment earlier, welcome to the family. Mark From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Craig Werner Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2015 7:02 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Two Interesting Things That Occurred During My Installation of El Capitan Mark, the installer progress bar lingered for me as well. I did the same thing as you did: turn off the machine and then turn it back on. I don't know know how El Capitan installed itself, but it did. This odd behavior is especially disturbing to me as a new Mac user of two months. I am wondering if some of the problems I am having with El Capitan are due to the way it was installed--a process I rather bumbled my way through. I'm not at all proud of my achievement and am now thinking of reverting back to Yosemite. Craig On Saturday, October 3, 2015, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: Hello Everyone, I cannot recall if this has been covered, on-list, but thought I would share two issues of some note, that occurred during my installation of El Capitan. 1. Upon successful download of El Capitan from the App Store, the installer did not automatically launch. This did not bother me as I always cancel the installer until I make a USB install key. 2. Rather than wiping my hard drive clean and installing El Capitan, fresh, which I intend to do in a couple of weeks, I elected to install the OS over the current install of Yosemite. Upon restarting, and after the setup assistant had launched, the install progress screen refused to disappear. I could enable/disable VoiceOver, I could use several of the VoiceOver commands but the installation progress window, containing the Apple logo and a completed progress bar remained. After about an hour of waiting, I powered down the computer and restarted. All has been well ever since. Just a quick note to say that I never experienced this behavior during the beta cycle. Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
