Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Date: 17 Oct 2015 14:29:35 GMT Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <940030585.466607763.920196.jicahis.SINBASURA-gmail.com@news-central.giganews.com> <1mcdpe6.edo85g5ujmscN%befr@eaglesoft.de> <5621505c$0$1259$c3e8da3$460562f1@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net bEGyABCx8oyffCfF0R6yIwT6MEtvIZRD4OFYC8R64yEilhtt52 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NL1lhfPvzZkDcMJgAV1HF6VLzmU= sha1:e+BXfTubhWqrh/qLadrM9uv5Ch0= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.1 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:83660 John Somerset 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: -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR