the only way out is through (I think)
I have been a mac user since the mid-eighties and have performed countless upgrades and installs since then. Never any problem. Until now.
Because I didn’t feel particularly hindered by remaining on Leopard and wanted to avoid any incompatibilities with Adobe products, I have resisted upgrading. But, because I felt the need to install the desktop version of the writing app I use on the ipad (iA Writer), I decided, yesterday, to go ahead and upgrade to Snow Leopard > Lion and deal with what I assumed would be minor inconveniences later. I’ve always been pretty good at fixing whatever (computer) problems crop up. But, for over the past 24 hours, my machine has been essentially colonized by this process. And the process is nowhere near the end.
After performing a clean install of Snow Leopard, my machine seemed, to my astonishment, like it was wading through molasses. Everything was slow. “Okay,” I thought. “I’ll just go ahead and proceed to 10.7.1. Things can’t get any worse and they will almost certainly get better. Hopefully way better.”
A download (of 10.7.1 = 3.75 GB) that I assumed would take an hour at most has been going on now for more than a full day. Aborting the process would mean continuing with Snow Leopard, which I don’t think is viable. I suppose I could revert to Leopard, but that seems … I don’t know. This is a nightmare.
Part of the problem is that roadrunner dropped the connection twice (and my speeds seem just … unimaginably slow). Another option, I suppose, might be to run down to 5th Avenue (Apple) and continue the download there, and then maybe ask some genius why with sufficient RAM (4 GB) and sufficient free space (145 GB) on the hard drive everything would be lumbering, lumbering … I don’t know. I don’t know. Yes, I suppose I will have to run down to 5th Avenue.
Quitting out of Safari now.
By the way, in case there was any doubt, I know how stupid this whole thing is.
the only way out is through (I think)
I have been a mac user since the mid-eighties and have performed countless upgrades and installs since then. Never any problem. Until now.
Because I didn’t feel particularly hindered by remaining on Leopard and wanted to avoid any incompatibilities with Adobe products, I have resisted upgrading. But, because I felt the need to install the desktop version of the writing app I use on the ipad (iA Writer), I decided, yesterday, to go ahead and upgrade to Snow Leopard > Lion and deal with what I assumed would be minor inconveniences later. I’ve always been pretty good at fixing whatever (computer) problems crop up. But, for over the past 24 hours, my machine has been essentially colonized by this process. And the process is nowhere near the end.
After performing a clean install of Snow Leopard, my machine seemed, to my astonishment, like it was wading through molasses. Everything was slow. “Okay,” I thought. “I’ll just go ahead and proceed to 10.7.1. Things can’t get any worse and they will almost certainly get better. Hopefully way better.”
A download (of 10.7.1 = 3.75 GB) that I assumed would take an hour at most has been going on now for more than a full day. Aborting the process would mean continuing with Snow Leopard, which I don’t think is viable. I suppose I could revert to Leopard, but that seems … I don’t know. This is a nightmare.
Part of the problem is that roadrunner dropped the connection twice (and my speeds seem just … unimaginably slow). Another option, I suppose, might be to run down to 5th Avenue (Apple) and continue the download there, and then maybe ask some genius why with sufficient RAM (4 GB) and sufficient free space (145 GB) on the hard drive everything would be lumbering, lumbering … I don’t know. I don’t know. Yes, I suppose I will have to run down to 5th Avenue.
Quitting out of Safari now.
By the way, in case there was any doubt, I know how stupid this whole thing is.