MacOS installer why so many progress bars?

mattinozmattinoz
Posted:
in macOS
First time I did a boot camp install was surprised it broke the process into so many steps each one needing user acknowledgement. each one with a progress bar so no idea of overall process.

Mac OS at the time was a joyous contrast. All questions upfront hit go and next time you need to touch the computer is to stop the "Hello" video,  single progress bar gives reasonable time to finish estimate.

Until Catalina*...   A most un-mac-like progress 
Who was the bright spark who decided so many separate processes each with a progress bar that paid no mind to what is to come or has gone before. A couple of reboots in that process.


Comments

  • Reply 1 of 2
    sphericspheric Posts: 2,560member
    As long as you aren’t required to interact with the machine, it is effectively exactly the same as before. You come back when it’s done. 

    Short of magic, there simply is no way to repartition a boot drive, move all user-modifiable data to a new partition, update NetBoot firmware, update the recovery partition, AND install a brand new OS all in one go. 

    Add completely reformatting the hard drive if you’re updating from a non-APFS OS. 
    chabig
  • Reply 2 of 2
    mattinozmattinoz Posts: 2,316member
    spheric said:
    As long as you aren’t required to interact with the machine, it is effectively exactly the same as before. You come back when it’s done. 

    Short of magic, there simply is no way to repartition a boot drive, move all user-modifiable data to a new partition, update NetBoot firmware, update the recovery partition, AND install a brand new OS all in one go. 

    Add completely reformatting the hard drive if you’re updating from a non-APFS OS. 
    Except you are required to interact. Several of the early stages don't auto-trigger after a period of time they just sit waiting for the next stage.

    They could at least say process 2 of 5 or similar so you know it's not finishing soon.
Sign In or Register to comment.