Hi Wendy, Yes, leave it for awhile, the servers have become overloaded in the past few minutes I’ve noticed. I was almost through downloading when it slowed to an absolute crawl.
I would suggest people try later or even tomorrow perhaps ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 08/03/2012, at 9:21 AM, Wendy S Austin wrote: > Thanks for this Peter however when I try it this way I receive an error > message 'Unable to check for update. An error occurred while checking for a > software update'. > > I have just downloaded the latest iTunes and when I try to upgrade the iPad > through there on the iMac, it spends ages trying to contact to the update > server and never connects. I am guessing the servers are over loaded and > should try later. Yes? > > Wendy > On 08/03/2012, at 11:48 , Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> I just upgraded my iPad through the Settings > Software Update command. The >> whole thing went extremely smoothly, and as promised, there was no need at >> all to connect physically to my computer, or to get iTunes involved in any >> way. >> >> Very impressive... > > > > > > Wendy S Austin > 211 Bathurst Street > Hobart Tas 7000 > Home: (03) 62852733 > Mobile: 0409951971 > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>