Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Happy.Hobo" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: macOS 10.12.1 Available Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:42:35 -0500 Organization: On The Road Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <251020160905562077%JimSGibson@gmail.com> <005a2282-1c81-959c-7262-e75c8d967737@lisse.NA> <1mvqhco.tq1f6h1t8r8diN%nmassello@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 0Td1AO1p5oo17dmk9aRfRQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:96044 On 10-26-2016 17:21, Neill Massello wrote: > Happy.Hobo wrote: > >> Someone recently complained that Apple was forcing updates on us. >> >> Several of us pointed out that it's not forced if you have a choice. >> >> Well, my NON-admin account was asked if I wanted to install the already >> downloaded update. >> >> I had ALL checkboxes OFF associated with automation on updates. The >> first install of Sierra apparently turned them all on, but at least it >> doesn't do restart installs without asking. > > Are you sure it had already been downloaded? IME, if you don't have the > relevant boxes in the pref pane checked, the download does not actually > occur until you click the option in the (somewhat confusing) > notification alert. Apparently you didn't read what you quoted. The 10.12.0 install turned on all those boxes. >> I turned them all off again, but did the install. Part way through it >> puts the screen to sleep. This is dumb, because if someone thinks the >> computer is off, they may push the power button. No problem (yet) >> because nothing happens. But then, if they think it is asleep, and find >> out they can't wake it up, the "solution" is to hold down the button >> until it turns off. Which of course seriously breaks the update install. > > Pressing the power button ought to wake the screen. It does on my Mac > during normal operation, but I don't know what happens during an OS > install. Then why post after I told you nothing happens?