Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help
Date	2015-10-17 14:29 +0000
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John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/15 3:30 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>> On 2015-10-16 14:11, John Somerset wrote:
>> 
>>> If it says seven more minutes and it will in fact be far longer, it
>>> would be very nice if Apple would tell me, so I won't sit there staring
>>> at the screen, and so I'll know things are ok.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Say it is about to spawn the process that will convert your mailbox. It
>> says "7 more monute sto go" based on their testing before release. At
>> that point, the installer doesn't know your mailbox contains a gazillion
>> large emails so all it can do is use the average "7 minutes".
>> 
>> It spawns the process that does the dirty work in the background, and
>> that process doesn't talk back to the installer with "I think this is
>> likely to take at least 12 hours". So the installer keeps it at "7"
>> minutes until that task is done.
>> 
>> IF the installer, while pausing for that job indicated "now converting
>> your mail messages", at least one would have an idea of where the
>> problem was. And if you knew you have a gazillion emails in your
>> mailbox, you would then know to be more patient than 7 minutes.
>> 
>> 
> I'd like to see two more things.  Before installing, I'd like to be able 
> to go to the Apple site to see a list of the processes and the time 
> range for each, along with the median.  I imagine this data could be 
> gathered from beta installations.
> 
> At the start of the installation, I'd like to see an estimate of the 
> time for each process, based on the size of the pertinent files on my 
> disk.  Then I'd have a better idea of how long it would take.  If then 
> the installer kept me informed of the current process, I could better 
> assume that the installation was progressing even if the progress bar 
> didn't seem to have moved since my last check.

Tell Apple:

<https://www.apple.com/feedback/>

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  Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-15 16:12 +0000
    Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 15:45 -0300
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              Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-10-20 13:31 -0600
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