#Macos catalina install frozen update#
#Macos catalina install frozen password#
#Macos catalina install frozen free#

For example, if I started my installation at 4pm, I decided to pick up the recovery from 2pm (even though there was a backup available from 4 pm). I picked one of them that felt fairly far away from the moment I had began installing this OS. When I clicked this option, I saw about 5 backups populate from today itself. Your macbook will prompt you to pick a disk where the time machines are stored, and I picked 'Macintosh HD'. Now, as I mentioned before, I thought I hadn't got this turned on, but I guess it was turned on by default by the OS. This time when the options pull up, choose 'Restore from Time Machine Backup'. Reboot and go into recovery mode again (press cmd + r during reboot). Even if you're convinced you don't have one, it doesn't hurt to give this a shot. Try restoring from Time Machine Backups (you might actually have one) - I cannot emphasize how strongly I believed I didn't have one of these backups, but unbeknownst to me, it did exist on my drive.

#Macos catalina install frozen free#

After an agonizing 30-40 minutes, it'll give you the same error - 'not enough free space to install the OS'. Once you do so, and assuming you're connected to Wifi, your macbook will start downloading Mojave and eventually attempt to install it. Don't worry, you won't lose your data doing this as it merely overwrites the OS, it doesn't overwrite your files. Once there, I clicked on 'Reinstall macOS'. Since I couldn't boot from 'Macintosh HD' anymore (I was just getting a white circle with a bar across it), I rebooted my macbook and pressed Cmd + r. Try to reinstall Mojave (this won't wipe your disk) - I wanted to return my macbook to as original a condition as possible, and I figured attempting to install Mojave was the best way to do it. I'm not sure if step one was necessary, but since I did this en route to fixing the loop of death, I'll list it here for you to consider. I was facing the same issue and was on the verge of reformatting my macbook. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me out - this issue is really concerning as I'm currently unable to use my MacBook and really need it for my studies.

#Macos catalina install frozen update#

When I try to, it chucks me back into the update and the process repeats. I have done a lot of googling and most guides say something like 'restart, log in and free up some space'. I also tried booting into safe mode with no success. A few minutes later, the same error popped up so I pressed restart once more and the same cycle happened again.įrustrated, I tried the obvious booting into recovery mode and selecting my main drive as the startup disk but whilst I was able to enter recovery mode, I wasn't able to select the disk - it didn't appear.

#Macos catalina install frozen password#

However, I restarted, entered my password then it seemed like the update instantly resumed. It gave me the option to restart so I did that, hoping that I'd be able to log in and clear some more space for the install. After a few minutes of the update seeming to go as normal, I was thrown a screen which said something like 'macOS could not be updated on your Mac, there is not enough free space'. I downloaded the updated and selected my drive as the install location. I have not installed any beta releases beforehand. I tried updating to the official release of macOS Catalina a few hours ago but instantly hit a problem.